2023 CEPA Forum

Winning the War. Winning the Peace.

Russia

There Can Be No Peace With Russia

By Nicolas Tenzer

September 21, 2023

Civil Society

Photo: Pupils attend a lesson at a local school in Simferopol, April 10, 2014. Natalia Rudenko's ears were still ringing from being shouted at by a father demanding that the Ukrainian-language school she has run for 17 years in Crimea's capital now teach in Russian when local officials turned up at her office to dismiss her. Their message: Rudenko and her school dedicated to sending students to Ukrainian universities no longer have a place in a society that voted to secede from Ukraine and join Russia last month after Moscow deployed troops across the Black Sea peninsula. Since President Vladimir Putin formally annexed Crimea on March 21, confusion has reigned. Courts are paralysed, the banking network is in disarray as Ukrainian and Western banks pull out, and business ties with the mainland are sundered. Picture taken April 10, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Behind the Lines: Teaching Crimeans to Speak Ukrainian Again

By Elina Beketova

September 21, 2023

Rule of Law

Photo: Volodymyr Zelensky and Ursula von der Leyen. Credit: European Union Photographer: Christophe Licoppe. https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/photo-details/P-061694~2F00-07

Ukraine Has No Time to Waste in the Race to Reform

By Marija Golubeva

September 20, 2023

Regional Security

Photo: A tank of the self-defense army of Nagorno-Karabakh moves on the road near the village of Mataghis April 6, 2016. Credit: REUTERS/Staff

Azerbaijan Launches New Military Operation Against Armenia

By Emil Avdaliani

September 19, 2023

Technology & Innovation

Photo: Thierry Breton, European Commissioner, gives a press conference on the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. Credit: Aurore Martignoni/European Commission

The European Tech Crackdown Heats Up

By Bill Echikson

September 18, 2023

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Speaking Truth Unto Russia — Inspiration From the Cold War

September 22, 2023 | By Mark G Pomar

The need to reach ordinary Russians is as acute now as it was in the Cold War. We must generate new thinking and new methods to replicate past US success.

They May Wobble in the West, But Not in Ukraine

September 22, 2023 | By Elina Beketova

All the talk of fading US commitment to Ukraine’s war of national survival has no effect whatsoever among my embattled people. We fight on, regardless.

Russia’s Bonfire of the Nationalities Fuels Ukraine Conflagration

September 22, 2023 | By Aliide Naylor

Why don’t Russians rise up against their rulers in the Kremlin, given the brutal losses of war? There are clues in analysis of the military casualty numbers, and in the budget.

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Congress Talks AI With Tech Titans

Senator Chuck Schumer is convening a closed-door meeting about artificial intelligence this week with some of tech’s biggest names. It’s a useful exercise, even without producing hard legislative proposals.

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