Russia

In the Fight With Russia, Can Volunteer Battalions Save Ukraine?

By Irena Chalupa

Only his family and closest friends know his real name and his face has never been shown in public. Television viewers have seen only his eyes and heard his calm voice, a voice that speaks many uncomfortable truths. Semen Semenchenko, is the nom de guerre of an ethnic Russian man from Donetsk, a father of […]

Europe’s Dangerous Neighborhood

By Javier Solana, Project Syndicate

Europe’s eastern neighborhood is marked by the crisis in Ukraine.

The West Shows No Willingness to Defend Freedom Against Russia

By Editorial Board, Washington Post

[W]hat of the defense of freedom, about which Mr. Obama spoke at Warsaw’s Castle Square? The president and his European partners are going only so far as they perceive they can without unduly upsetting Mr. Putin.

NATO Commander Accuses Russia of Destabilizing Eastern Ukraine

By Adrian Croft and David Brunnstrom, Reuters

NATO’s top military commander accused Russia on Wednesday of destabilising eastern Ukraine through the use of Russian-backed forces and demanded that it stop interfering.

Sisi and Russia: No Replacement for the United States

By Mark N. Katz

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s election as president—which President Vladimir Putin indicated his support for when the two leaders met this past February in Moscow—will see a deepening of the Russian-Egyptian rapprochement that these two leaders have already begun.  Moscow is pleased that Sisi has ended Egyptian support for the Syrian opposition against Assad that ousted President […]

Britain Offers Tanks and 1,000 Troops for NATO Show of Strength Against Putin

By Ben Farmer, Telegraph

Britain has offered Nato an armoured battle group including up to 25 tanks to join exercises in Poland as a show of force against Vladimir Putin.

Ukrainian National Security Council Official on Russia’s Disinformation War

Kyiv Battles Kremlin Myths, Siumar Says; Is Not Considering Martial Law As Ukraine and its government battle Russian-backed secessionist militias in its two southeastern provinces, it also confronts public fears and suspicions among many of the 6.6 million people there (14 percent of Ukraine’s population). That is largely because Russia has had a free hand […]

Harper Sees ‘Long-Term Menace’ in Russia, Sending More Canadian Troops to Europe

By Steven Chase, Globe and Mail

Canada is sending additional troop to Eastern Europe as part of the NATO response to Russian aggression

Hagel Escalates Obama’s Warning to Allies: US Support for NATO Could Be at Risk

By James G. Neuger and Gopal Ratnam, Bloomberg News

NATO defense ministers struggled to find a response to Russia’s Ukraine incursion, hemmed in by financial constraints, U.S. demands that Europe raise defense spending and a desire not to provoke the Kremlin.