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Strife Feature | Contemporary Russian foreign policy – Examining the Ukraine...
By William Moray The 2014 Ukrainian Revolution – or Revolution of Dignity – and the subsequent Donbass War (Donbas, in Ukrainian) severely impacted the relations Russia held not only with Ukraine but...
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Donbas Reintegration Law: What Impact on the Minsk Agreements?
By Daria Platonova The contemporary definition of Donbas refers to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine (Credit Image: Al Jazeera) The low-scale conflict in Ukraine, now in its fourth year,...
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Peacekeepers in the Donbas: Pro et Contra
by Daria Platonova 31 May 2019 UN Peacekeeping in Donbas? (European Council on Foreign Relations) The conflict between the Ukrainian government and Russia-backed separatist republics of Donetsk and...
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the Donbas Conflict in Ukraine
by Daria Platonova 5 June 2019 Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskiy was elected President of Ukraine in May 2019 (The National Interest) Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s[1] election to the presidency in Ukraine[2]...
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Feature – Shabiha in Syria and Titushki in Ukraine as Elements of...
by Daria Platonova 15 July 2019 “Titushki” on their way to Mariinskiy Park (Image credit: Unian) Introduction Incumbent authoritarian regimes[1] can use a variety of tools to protect the status quo and...
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The Road to Oligarchic Peace: Comparing the Nashville Conventions of 1850 and...
by Daria Platonova 5 November 2019 During the Orange Revolution, the people of Ukraine spontaneously took to the streets in what would become known as the country’s “first” Maidan (Image credit:...
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Raising and Losing Children in the Donbas War
by Daria Platonova The Gorlovka Madonna, depicting mother and child as the innocent casualties of war (Image credit: ОЧИЩЕНИЕ/VK) Child suffering is a largely neglected aspect of the war in Donbas....
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Russian and British Imperial Policies towards Ukrainian and Welsh
by Daria Platonova The Ems Edict of 1876 banned the use of the Ukrainian language in print (Image credit: Mozok) In 2014, language came to the forefront of politics in Ukraine for the second time since...
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The Overextension of Sovereignty: How states have dampened opposition to...
Kremlin Dome of Senate. Photo Credit: iStockPhoto. In the twenty-first century the calculation that war is too costly to pursue in the conventional manner has kept large scale inter-state conflict from...
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Drop a Billion-Dollar Bomb on Putin! (Figuratively Speaking)
Vladimir Putin, Chairman of the Government, spoken at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos Municipality, Graubünden Canton on January 28, 2009. Licensed under Creative Commons. Photo...
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