Ukraine War

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Monday, 16 May 2022

Could Annexation Be Putin’s Response to NATO Enlargement?

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has energized the North Atlantic Alliance in every possible way, reviving its purpose and unity, and granting it new attractiveness in Europe and greater prominence in the Indo-Pacific. The prospect of Finland and Sweden joining the 30 member-states was hypothetical last autumn, when Moscow issued the ...

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Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Drones in the Ukraine War: An Initial Strategic and Sociological Assessment

Drones have played a very important, multidimensional role since the beginning of the current iteration of the war in Ukraine. This importance mirrors what happens in modern conflict all over the world: both in more conventional conflict and in other insurgency / counter-insurgency settings, drones have become a central part ...

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Monday, 9 May 2022

Finland and Sweden’s Move to NATO

Russia’s war on Ukraine has repercussions also in Northern Europe. Finland and Sweden, despite their longstanding policy of military non-alignment, are more than likely going to submit their applications for NATO membership before the summer. In light of Russia’s brutal and unprovoked war and both countries’ close existing partnership with ...

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Could Annexation Be Putin’s Response to NATO Enlargement?

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Finland and Sweden’s Move to NATO

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Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Putin's Blood Trail from Syria to the Ukraine: Western Failures in the Face of Power-Play, Propaganda and De-humanization

One of the tragic side-effects of the war in Ukraine is that at long last – and unfortunately only now – the last person in the West may have come to understand what really happened in Syria, especially after Russian intervention. This does not help those Syrians who have been ...

Escalation of lies and threats leaves Putin with two bad choices

By Pavel K. Baev in Eurasia Daily Monitor

Could annexation be Putin's response to NATO enlargement?

By Pavel K. Baev in Eurasia Daily Monitor

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Monday, 9 May 2022

On the Big Occasion of May 9, Putin Had Nothing to Say

It stood to every political and strategic reason that President Vladimir Putin would announce a major decision opening the Victory Day military parade at the Red Square. Over the years, he has altered the meaning of this holiday from celebrating the allied triumph in the struggle against Nazi Germany to ...

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Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Greg Reichberg Speaks on Panel with PM Mario Draghi at Vatican Conference

PRIO Research Professor Greg Reichberg spoke at a Vatican conference on "The Family as Relational Good".

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Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Drones in the Ukraine War: An Initial Strategic and Sociological Assessment

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Friday, 06 May 2022 12:30-13:30

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War in Ukraine and the Fight for Democracy in Belarus

PRIO open lecture with leader of democratic Belarus Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

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Monday, 2 May 2022

Escalation of Lies and Threats Leaves Putin with Two Bad Choices

The deadlocked war has delivered Russia to an impossible situation where it can neither reckon with reality nor keep denying it. The official discourse on and the societal response to the unfolding disaster have so far contained a peculiar mix of patriotic mobilization and pretense that normal life continues undisturbed. ...