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Why Vladimir Putin seems stronger now than he was a year ago

Vladmir Putin appears far stronger now than he did at any other time since Russia launched a full-scale invasion into Ukrainian territory in February...

23.05.2024 20

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Ukraine war: battlefield setbacks stir Kyiv’s European allies into taking a tougher line on Russia

Two weeks after the US president, Joe Biden, signed off on a US$60 billion (£50 billion) package of military aid to Kyiv, the impact on the...

09.05.2024 30

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Ukraine war: US$60 billion in US military aid a major morale boost but no certain path to victory

It took months of delays and desperate pleas from Ukraine, but the US House of Representatives has finally passed a bill authorising US$60 billion...

22.04.2024 10

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Ukraine war: $60 billion in US military aid a major morale boost but no certain path to victory

It took months of delays and desperate pleas from Ukraine, but the US House of Representatives has finally passed a bill authorising US$60 billion...

22.04.2024 20

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China’s new world order: looking for clues from Xi’s recent meetings with foreign leaders

There is broad consensus that Chinese foreign policy has become more assertive and more centralised in the decade since Xi Jinping has ascended to the...

19.04.2024 30

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Ukraine is losing the war and the west faces a stark choice: help now or face a resurgent and aggressive Russia

Ukraine is now experiencing a level of existential threat comparable only to the situation immediately after the full-scale Russian invasion in...

17.04.2024 10

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Xi and Biden spoke on the phone for 105 minutes: what does this say about their relationship?

US president, Joe Biden, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jingping, talked on the phone this week for the first time since meeting in November. While...

04.04.2024 20

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Moldova: Russia continues its mischief-making in breakaway Transnistria

In mid-February, the leader of Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria, Vadim Krasnoselsky, summoned deputies “of all levels of the...

28.03.2024 10

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Ukraine war: ten years after Putin annexed Crimea, Russia’s grip on the peninsula looks shaky

It is ten years since Russia illegally annexed Crimea on March 18 2014. Subsequent efforts to firmly integrate the peninsula into the Russian...

15.03.2024 20

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Ukraine war: the west is at a crossroads – double down on aid to Kyiv, accept a compromise deal, or face humiliation by Russia

In the summer and autumn of 2022, there was much discussion about finding an “off-ramp” to allow Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, a...

20.02.2024 10

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Ukraine war: Kyiv needs a fundamental rethink of its strategy, not just a reshuffle of military leadership

The recent replacement of Valeriy Zaluzhnyi as commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces may have put a temporary end to the increasingly public...

12.02.2024 7

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Ukraine war: corruption scandals and high-level rifts could become an existential threat as Kyiv asks for more military aid

The latest revelations about corruption in Ukraine tell a complex story. A scandal has engulfed the Ukrainian ministry of defence, where 100,000...

01.02.2024 30

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Ukraine war: talk of Russian spring offensive raises fears that Kyiv is ill-prepared to face it

Analysis suggests that Russia may be in the early stages of a new offensive in Ukraine. On the ground, Moscow’s forces have intensified their...

18.01.2024 10

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Ukraine war increasingly seen as ‘fought by the poor’, as Zelensky raises taxes and proposes strict mobilisation laws

After the failure of Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive, Kyiv finds itself at a major crossroads and with no easy options. The demand late last year...

04.01.2024 10

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Ukraine war: Kyiv digs in for the long haul with prospects looking bleak for 2024

Almost two years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there are no signs of a military victory for either side. Nor are there...

21.12.2023 20

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Ukraine: opening EU accession talks is an important boost for Zelensky despite Orbán’s obstruction

Hungarian prime minister, Victor Orban, threw a major tantrum at the European Council meeting in Brussels on December 14 2023. Essentially doing the...

15.12.2023 10

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Ukraine war: stakes are high for EU and Ukraine ahead of crucial European summit

When the EU’s heads of state and government come together in Brussels for their final European Council meeting of the year on December 14 and 15,...

11.12.2023 30

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Ukraine war: Russia’s hard line at European security meeting ratchets up tensions another notch

After many months of diplomatic wrangling, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was granted another lease of life at the...

05.12.2023 3

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Ukraine war: are both sides preparing for stalemate?

US president Joe Biden took to the pages of the Washington Post last week to assure the American people that continuing economic and military support...

22.11.2023 10

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Ukraine war: stalemate on the battlefield and shaky international support putting pressure on Zelensky

More than 20 months into the war in Ukraine and over five months into Ukraine’s latest counteroffensive, the situation on the front is bleak and no...

06.11.2023 4

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Xi-Putin meeting: here’s what it says about their current, and future, relationship

Vladimir Putin is expected to travel outside the borders of the former Soviet Union for the first time in 20 months to meet China’s Xi Jinping on...

13.10.2023 2

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Ukraine war: mixed signals among Kyiv’s allies hint at growing conflict fatigue

It is now almost 600 days since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and the war that has followed has tested the resilience of both...

25.09.2023 4

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Nagorno-Karabakh : longest war in post-Soviet space flares yet again as Russia distracted in Ukraine

A 24-hour “"anti-terrorist” operation launched by Azerbaijan to “restore the country’s constitutional order” threatened briefly to escalate...

20.09.2023 2

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Ukraine war: Russian-held elections seek to normalise illegal occupation and reveal reality of a long war ahead

Russia has recently held local elections, including – for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine last February – counting votes in the four...

11.09.2023 10

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