Western weakness is enabling Russian war crimes in Ukraine

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Mar 7, 2022

Western weakness is enabling Russian war crimes in Ukraine

By Bohdan Klid

The democratic world has loudly condemned Vladimir Putin's Ukrainian invasion but longstanding policies of Western weakness towards the Kremlin linger on and are now enabling Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

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Mar 7, 2022

Amb. Fried interviewed in Bloomberg’s Balance of Power podcast on the Ukrainian refugee crisis

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Mar 7, 2022

Quel avenir pour le Sahel?

By Richard Cincotta and Stephen Smith

Le Sahel est dans une impasse démographique. S’ils veulent sortir de l’impasse actuelle, les gouvernements sahéliens devront réorienter une partie importante de leurs efforts de développement et moyens financiers vers des politiques et programmes visant à améliorer la condition féminine : en prévenant les mariages et grossesses précoces chez les adolescentes, en promouvant l’éducation des filles et en garantissant la pleine participation des femmes dans tous les secteurs publics et privés, à commencer par les lieux de travail.

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Mar 7, 2022

Lipner quoted in Americans for Peace Now on Israeli perspectives on war in Ukraine

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Mar 7, 2022

Middle East Program’s event with the Abraham Accords Caucus was mentioned in Politico National Security Daily

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Mar 3, 2022

Asat quoted in Radio Free Europe on asylum-seeker from China fleeing Ukraine amidst Russian invasion

By Atlantic Council

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Mar 2, 2022

Putin’s Ukraine War fuels protest mood in Russia and Belarus

By Brian Whitmore

Russian President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has sparked the biggest European conflict since WWII and is now fueling a growing anti-war protest mood in both Russia and Belarus.

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UkraineAlert

Mar 2, 2022

Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine War is a blueprint for genocide

By Peter Dickinson

Putin has convinced millions of Russians that Ukraine is not a country and Ukrainians are really Russians. This has set the stage for mass atrocities in the country as the Russian invasion runs into the reality of a hostile Ukraine.

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Feb 28, 2022

Nia quoted in The Guardian on Syrian and Iranian officials human rights violations and their potential war crime cases to ICC

By Atlantic Council

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Feb 28, 2022

Putin has fatally underestimated Ukrainians

By Inna Sovsun

Vladimir Putin made a grave miscalculation when he invaded Ukraine. The Russian ruler hoped to decapitate the Ukrainian state and install a new regime, but is now at war with the entire 40 million Ukrainian nation.

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