Ukraine

Impunity, militarism and chauvinism: the pillars of Putin's neo-empire

On Monday, October 28, 2024, Russian novelist Sergei Lebedev delivered RAAM's eighth October Lecture in the Rode Hoed in Amsterdam. This is the full...
Portrait of Viktoria Roshchyna at a memorial honoring fallen Ukrainians. Photo: Anatolii Stepanov / AFP

In memory of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna

27-year-old journalist Viktoria Roshchyna died in Russian captivity shortly before she was going to be exchanged in a prisoner swap....
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in London on September 9th, ahead of a visit to Ukraine. Photo: Mark Schiefelbein / POOL / AFP 

Ukraine's two fronts

Ukrainians believe they are at war with two different enemies at once – Russian invaders on the one hand, and Western fears, biases and...

After Putin: Russians’ imperial complex as a cultural and political problem

Sergei Lebedev houdt achtste Oktoberlezing Op maandag 28 oktober spreekt Sergei Lebedev in de Rode Hoed in Amsterdam de achtste Oktoberlezing uit....

Why the violence in the North Caucasus should worry Russia

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it took two bloody Chechen wars to pacify the North Caucasus. Recent turmoil shows that cracks begin to...

How Russian propaganda tries to discredit the Ukrainian-Chinese dialogue on sustainable peace

When Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba visited China to speak about peace in Ukraine, Russian officials and media framed it as a sign of...

Ukraine’s (im)possible engagement with the Global South

The Peace Summit in Switzerland highlighted Ukraine's complicated relationship with countries in the Global South. The salient lack of empathy for...

Ukraine’s impossible choices

Russian president Vladimir Putin suggested last weekend that he may be open to negotiating a ceasefire if Ukraine concedes large swathes of its...
Iryna Tsybukh was killed in action in the Kharkiv region.

A farewell letter from Ukrainian paramedic Iryna Tsybukh

Combat medic Iryna 'Cheka' Tsybukh died in action near the frontline in Kharkiv region last week. Last year, she wrote a farewell letter to her...

Even without a navy, Ukraine is hammering Russia in the Black Sea

Russia doesn’t rule the Black Sea anymore. In a classic asymmetric drone-campaign Ukraine, under siege and without a navy, has been able to hammer...

Ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine don't want to be Orbán's pawns

Ethnic Hungarians living in the Zakarpatya region, in the far south-west of Ukraine, have become an important piece in the political game of chess...

Sociologist Grigory Yudin: ‘The war is now forever’

Sociologist Grigory Yudin was one of the few Russians who predicted the war. Now he discusses a year of war and what comes next with Margarita...

New commander, new goals for Russia in Ukraine

Now it is clear that the Russian army is not able to wage an offensive war for lack of ammunition and sophisticated troops, the Russians change...

Russia increases military presence in Belarus

In October Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko and president Vladimir Putin announced to deploy a new regional group of joint Russian and...

Russian elites unlikely to split

Since the beginning of the war rumours spread concerning the possibility of a split among the Russian elites. But despite individual dissent there...

Putin's address to Russia

In his address to the nation on Wednesday Putin announced ‘partial mobilization’ for the war in Ukraine. He also supported the organization of fake...

How the West misunderstood the criminals in the Kremlin

Several months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the global discussion about the war has divided into two opposing camps. In Ukraine and...

Real Fascism to combat fake Nazism: Patrushev’s dreams of a warfighting Russia

Chief of Russia's Security Council Nikolay Patrushev is the person closest to Putin, and the most sinister figure in Russia's political elite. His...

Despite Doomsday predictions, Bulgaria proves there is life after Russian gas

On April 27 Gazprom abruptly shut off the gas taps to Bulgaria and Poland, because the countries refused to pay for their contracts in rubles. It...

'It is impossible for the system in Russia not to change'

While waging war on Ukraine, the Russian state has intensified its already tight control over the Internet, press, and opposition at home....

Russia's elites are desperate about the war

People in power, middle class business men who prospered under Putin, technocrats who are not allowed to leave: Yevgenia Albats, editor in chief of...

Russia's catastrophic geopolitics: Putin is late by a century

International scolars on gepopolitics like the American professor John Mearsheimer don't seem to understand that their abstract reasoning at this...

Brainwashing at Russia’s universities: how teachers have to present Putin’s policy

Soon after the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine started, university teachers all over Russia were ordered to teach their students about the...

Ukrainian journalists in open letter to colleagues: it’s 'Russia's war', not 'a two sided crisis'

In an open letter to colleagues abroad, a group of Ukrainian journalists warned for the pitfalls of Russian disinformation and asked them to be...

War of obsession: Why Putin is risking Russia’s future

By invading Ukraine Putin has shown that he has put his obsession with this neighbour above the national interest of Putin. As the world grapples...

What would a war with Ukraine mean for ordinary Russians?

Considering that a war with Ukraine would foster political dissatisfaction even among the part of the population that the authorities have...

Putin promises 'adequate military responses'

During a meeting at the Ministry of Defense on 21 December Putin promised 'adequate military and technical responses' if the West continues its...

How do Russians feel about a war with Ukraine?

Militarization stopped being a way to mobilize Russians in support of the government.  Instead of mobilization, state propaganda has created a...

Moscow wants to limit Ukraine's sovereignty via Washington

Many of the debates about the possibility of a Russian military action against Ukraine focus on what what US President Joe Biden and other NATO...

What Russia’s military movements could mean for Ukraine, Europe, and NATO

Once again Russia is mobilising its forces near the Ukrainian border, but much more covertly than in the past. Moscow’s belief that the EU and US...

Russian foreign policy is changing rapidly

The amassment of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border makes the world nervous. Putin's retoric is belligerent and the Kremlin refuses to talk to...

Ukraine, Russia and the last empire in Europe

President Putin and Security Council member Dmitry Medvedev openly discredited Ukraine as an independent state. Medvedev's recent article in...

Russia is an 'island', not ready for détente

Neither expansionism, nor détente with Europe is the answer for the future of the Russian Federation after the break-up of the Soviet Union....

Sticks and carrots in Biden’s Russia strategy

So far it is two cheers for Biden's approach to Russia, argues Matthew Sussex for the Interpreter. Some of the sanctions will be more effective than...

Competion between US LNG and Russian gas is great for Europe

Never a dull moment. This is the feeling one has when observing the tumultuous turns of events in the complex entanglement of energy and politics...

Russia facing Europe: a roadmap for improvement

In the relationship between Russia and Europe illusions about rapprochement are gone. However, the relation is not confrontational either....

'The future of Russia is evolution to a European parliamentary democracy'

In a hall with over 400 (mostly) students at the Campus The Hague Mikhail Khodorkovsky, ex-CEO of oil company Yukos, former prisoner and opponent of...

Footprints of the Russian Military Intelligence Agency GRU are everywhere

The Russian GRU is back in charge. Be it in the Mueller indictment, the annexation of Crimea, the Skripal case, the downing of MH17, in Syria,...

Russia’s alienation from the West: who is to blame?

In a speech at Clingendael in The Hague Dmitri Trenin, director of Carnegie Moscow, argued that the West is to blame for the alienation of Russia....

Black Monday Blues in Moscow

Column      Dutch businessman Jeroen Ketting has been working in Moscow for 25 years. The sanctions of 2014 hit him hard....

Putin’s ‘Greater Russia’: misunderstanding or mission?

The controversy that broke out in February 2018 over what Russian president Vladimir Putin did or did not say in a meeting in 2006 during a...

Separation from Ukraine is good for Russia's future

While in Moscow it is commonly accepted that Ukraine's separation from Russia was caused by a plot, Dmitri Trenin argues that it was the result...

Europe's challenge: a measured response to Russia

With the end of the Cold War the geo-strategic reality in Europe changed. The Charter of Paris, signed in 1990, confirmed the right of both small...

Cyber-challenge cuts both ways

Russia now is considered as one of the main actors in cyberwar. But using 'patriotic hackers' can backfire in your own country. As the massive...

Why do the West and Russia fear each other?

In december Dmitri Trenin, director of Carnegie Moscow Center, published the book 'Should we fear Russia?' He warns the West not to let the...

What is behind Russia's tough talk on Crimea?

Russia reacted unusually strong after a misty shoot-out near the border with Crimea, blamed on 'Ukrainian terrorists'. Putin in Moscow even spoke of...

Europe is weak, Christian Russia is winning

Russia and Europe are fighting an ideological battle. The postmodern, secular and powerless Europe is challenged by Russia, where dignity, tradition...
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