Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe
On March 16, 2020, the sixth anniversary of Russia’s fraudulent referendum to annex Crimea, the European Union High Representative Josep Borrell Fontelles published a declaration reiterating the EU’s support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.
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September 7, 2018
Russia’s Primary Targets
External assertiveness often serves as an effective diversionary maneuver to dampen domestic turmoil by acting on the deception that Russia is under threat. Moscow’s tools of aggression against neighboring states rely on stealth and surprise. This was most evident during the attack on Ukraine in 2014 and the takeover of the Crimean peninsula. Russia’s rulers […]
September 4, 2018
A Cure For Chaos
It is not Russia that is strong; it is the West that is weak.
August 31, 2018
Transatlantic Turbulence
Now, with a resurgent and revanchist Russia, European security is front and center again.
August 31, 2018
The Belorussian Front
August 28, 2018
Question More
The “anti-vax” movement, which claims that vaccines are a commercial conspiracy and cause autism, is almost non-existent in Russia: 98% of children there receive the measles jab. But that has not stopped the Kremlin’s disinformation machine from stoking the American medical-culture wars over immunization. The most controversial part of this stunt was promoting spurious arguments […]
August 21, 2018
Putin’s Viennese Waltz
Under the right-wing coalition government which took office in December, Austria has been rattling nerves at home and abroad. It has infuriated Italy by offering passports to German-speakers in South Tirol, reopening a long-buried feud over the former Austro-Hungarian territory’s ethnic and linguistic identity. It has infuriated Israel, and observant Jews, by scheduling an EU summit that will start […]
August 15, 2018
Perils of Balkan Partition
After several provocative statements by Serbian and Kosovar politicians and in the midst of relative silence from Washington and Brussels, suppositions are growing that a territorial exchange is being planned between Belgrade and Prishtina. Kosova’s President Hashim Thaci has asserted that the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue will include talks on “border corrections” – a term that implies […]
August 14, 2018
In The Kremlin’s Shadow
Ankara may not like what it finds in the Kremlin’s shadow. Turkey will look for new friends and allies if the Trump administration mistreats it. That was Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s message in the New York Times on August 10th. The implied threat by the Turkish president was closer ties with the Kremlin, whose rhetoric depicts a sunny world of […]
August 3, 2018
The Art Of The Fake
So you thought cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, troll farms, and bot armies were a problem—well, you ain't seen nothing yet.