While the assessment of general and specific IHL only leaves more questions, the short and safe answer is that Russia’s sole use of thermobaric weaponry is permitted by IHL.
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Sam Biden April 2, 2022 Europe, Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, The Policy Unit
While the assessment of general and specific IHL only leaves more questions, the short and safe answer is that Russia’s sole use of thermobaric weaponry is permitted by IHL.
Read More »Hamish Cruickshank March 18, 2021 Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, Security and Defence, The Americas
Amid a host of promises including a declaration to re-join the Paris Climate Agreement, the Biden administration announced in early January that it would seek an extension to the treaty, and on the 26th Biden and Putin agreed via a telephone conversation to a five-year extension.
Read More »Irena Baboi March 12, 2021 Europe, Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia
Alexey Navalny’s arrest and sentencing brought the people of Russia to the streets, but it was anger at their current situation that kept them there. The ill-treatment you are likely to experience if you disagree with the government, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and years of declining living standards all combined to generate Russia’s largest-scale demonstrations in nearly a decade.
Read More »Hamish Cruickshank January 12, 2021 Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
The warming of relations between Russia and China in the Arctic has driven some Western policymakers to declare that an ‘Arctic Alliance’ has formed between the two powers. However, a deeper examination of the evidence indicates that a destabilising partnership between the two powers is far from apparent.
Read More »Jack Davies November 24, 2020 Europe, Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
There has been a tendency among researchers and policy-makers studying the evolution and deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles, referred to colloquially as drones, to discount their contemporary effectiveness in inter-state conflict. However, the recent conflict in and around the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has in some ways challenged that assumption
Read More »Hamish Cruickshank October 3, 2020 Europe, Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia
Anti-corruption campaigner and leading Russian political oppositionist Alexei Navalny has been poisoned with the nerve agent ‘Novichok’. With the international community now demanding a full and transparent enquiry into the incident, it appears that this is yet another sign that the Kremlin’s grisly method of dealing with dissidents has indeed become an intrinsic facet of state policy in Russia.
Read More »Hamish Cruickshank August 28, 2020 Europe, Latest Articles, Opinion, Russia and Eurasia, Security and Defence, Uncategorized
The Government’s tepid response to the Russia Report is unlikely to have made any in the Kremlin lose much sleep. A stronger effort is therefore imperative to deter any future attempts to undermine UK democracy.
Read More »Hamish Cruickshank June 22, 2020 Europe, Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, Security and Defence
While the plot may have turned out to be a complete fabrication, the fear and panic inspired by the initial reports serve as a reminder that mokroye delo - wet affairs or “wetwork” in the West - has seen a resurgence under Vladimir Putin.
Read More »Hamish Cruickshank May 8, 2020 Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, Security and Defence
Any hopes of an alternate course for Russia have surely been dashed by the constitutional overhaul and it appears that the future will hold significantly more continuity than change for the country both internally and externally.
Read More »Theodora Ogden March 15, 2020 Europe, Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, Security and Defence
Despite Kaliningrad’s rich and complex history, the city’s current aesthetic, economic stagnation and social instability is in need of attention. However, for as long as Russian authorities prioritise its military importance, Kaliningrad’s residents will have to wait.
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