Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe
Europe has responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with bold new plans to increase defense spending. A beneficiary should be its tech industry.
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March 22, 2022
Putin’s Soviet Nostalgia: Time to Get Serious
The war in Ukraine is not about Ukraine, it’s about one man’s desire to return to the past. NATO must stop him.
March 22, 2022
Thought Crime in Putinland
Pollsters struggle to understand Russia at a time when free expression comes at a very high price.
March 22, 2022
Bulgaria: The Skull’s Revenge
The new government faces an uphill battle in its efforts to reform a broken justice system, made worse by divisions over Ukraine policy.
March 22, 2022
A Troubling Silence on Prisoners of War
The Russian-Ukrainian War is the most significant ground war in Europe since World War II and a test of the treatment of prisoners of war (PoWs).
March 21, 2022
The Finnish-Swedish Dilemma: Fight or Flight
Gone is the notion that the Nordics should preserve a “special relationship” with an increasingly unpredictable Russia.
March 21, 2022
China’s Aid to Russia: Lip Service?
China’s messaging on the Russian invasion of Ukraine belies its claims to neutrality, but material support is harder to gauge.
March 17, 2022
Reaching Russians: None So Deaf as Those Who Won’t Hear
Attempts to counter Putin’s disinformation machine will need to be carefully calibrated for Russians fed on a diet of lies.
March 16, 2022
NATO’s Case for War With Russia
The West’s most recent conflicts have involved long debates about legality. This time, Vladimir Putin’s aggression leaves no room for debate.
March 16, 2022
La Activista: Spain Stands Up to Putin’s Russia
Great powers occupy the front row in the Ukraine war, but middle-sized democracies like Spain are also stepping up to oppose Putin’s Russia.