Ukraine Under President Zelensky
(ECFR Podcast) Nicu Popescu, director of the Wider Europe Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Victor Andruziv, Director of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future (UIF), and Jana…
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Ukraine’s New Front Is Europe’s Big Challenge
(FP) (Co-authored with Carl Bildt) There’s plenty Europe should do to push back against Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine. “Crimea, Ukraine, Moldova.” In late August 2008, with Russian troops in control of…
Hacks, leaks and disruptions – Russian cyber strategies
(Chaillot Papers) (Co-editors: Nicu Popescu and Stanislav Secrieru) Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan examine Russia’s approach to cyber. During the Second Chechen War, Putin started using information as a weapon by targeting…
The Bucharest Summit Revisited | Interview with Nicu Popescu
(Georgia Today) Georgia has been waiting 10 years for NATO to come good on its promise, given at the 2008 Bucharest Summit, that Georgia (and Ukraine) would one day become…
Who Wins From Russia-West Tensions in the Post-Soviet Space?
(Carnegie Moscow Center) (Co-authored with S. Secrieru) The surge of third powers in the post-Soviet space is propelled by the twin engines of rising demand for alternatives to Russia and the West,…
Why Georgia’s Lessons for Russia Don’t Apply in Ukraine
(Carnegie Moscow Center) Those in Moscow who believe that all is not lost for Russia in Ukraine, citing the example of Georgia, which is gradually normalizing relations with Russia despite the…
Popescu: The new Moldovan president rode a wave of dissatisfaction, which was more pivotal than the pro-Russian rhetoric
(DW) The Red Star is back in Moldova, this time as a symbol of the Socialists' Party (PSRM) led by Igor Dodon. On Sunday, he won the country's presidency in a…
Popescu: Moldovan support for the EU has decreased recently, partly as a reflection of pro-EU governments not fighting corruption
(RFE/RL) Moldovans head to the polls this weekend for a presidential election that could hint at whether the country's current aspirations lie more with the European Union or Russia. The October…
Brexit Won’t Solve Russia’s EU Problems
(Russia Direct) Given the state of Russian relations with the EU, it would not be a surprise if Moscow celebrated the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. The Brexit vote…
Russian futures: horizon 2025
(EUISS Report) Predicting Russia’s future is a perilous exercise. Many, indeed perhaps most, of those who have ventured to make such predictions in the past have erred in one way or…