Ukraine and Russia: Peace, War and the Future
(YaleGlobal Online) ODESSA: Russia relations with Ukraine in the post-Soviet era may certainly be divided into two periods uneven in length. The first one was a period of relative peace…
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US still retains its impact on Ukraine
(Kyiv Post) The United States has played an outsized role vis-à-vis Ukraine throughout the 25 years of their relations. The lonely superpower has pushed Ukraine towards denuclearization while picking up the…
President Trump’s Warsaw Speech: A Window into a Trump Doctrine?
Donald Trump has been the president of the United States for half a year. Over this time, observers have been trying to see through the cloud of his often controversial…
Interview with Dubovyk: Ukraine Looks to the West as Conflict Continues
(WMOT) Ukraine has been in conflict since 2014, when President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country, and Russian troops annexed the Crimea region. Fighting has been off-and-on ever since, with Russian-armed…
How Changing Ukrainian Society Impacts the Chances for Peace | Dubovyk, Kudelia, Matsiyevsky (Part 2 of 2)
Last month a major battle broke out between Russian-backed insurgents and Ukrainian forces in the town of Avdiivka in Ukraine. Alongside the return of such violence in the Donbas, Ukrainian…
Is Ukraine a “Client State” of the United States?
(PONARS Policy Memo) To ask whether Ukraine is a client state of the United States might seem provocative. In the opinion of some, being a “client state” is negative, implying that…
Saakashvili bids Odesa farewell
(NEE) The resignation of Mikheil Saakashvili from his position as the governor of the Odesa region was long expected. In many ways it was a natural development that would have…
Ukraine and Georgia: How Much of a Common Faith?
(GIP) For a number of years now, Ukraine and Georgia have often been cited together as a certain tandem of countries that share their aspirations, challenges and perspectives. It is hardly…
The Implications of the Crimean Annexation for Black Sea Security
The Ukraine crisis altered the security landscape of the Black Sea region. This area was a relatively quiet “battlefront” during the Cold War and a rather stable region in the…
Making Sense of Ukraine’s Local Elections
(PONARS Eurasia Comment) The recent October 25 local elections concludes the series of post-Euromaidan elections that included presidential elections in May 2014 and parliamentary elections in October 2014. The elections…