Category: 8. Opinion

When the Trump administration’s 28-point peace plan for the Ukraine war leaked last month, its evident pro-Russian bent was treated with a mixture of disdain and confusion in Kyiv and across Europe….

“To others his example is a lesson.” Those words from Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” seem strangely apt for the unfolding drama around Serbia’s oil company NIS. And make no mistake — they will…

The way events unfold in Russia today bears little resemblance to the way those same events are portrayed in the media.

As headlines started declaring “a gasoline crisis in Russia” this summer, it…

Russia believes itself to be already at war with the West — or at least the European part of NATO — and the Kremlin is prepared to apportion the rhetoric, finances and personnel accordingly. 

But…

For more than three decades, Russia has been burdened with the remains of the Soviet nuclear project: a vast, sprawling, largely invisible inheritance of contaminated territories, derelict…

Remember how everyone recently laughed at the UN for publishing a tearful report saying that no one reads its reports? Well, I can tell you about a fresh report that will sadly be read by even fewer…

Remember how everyone recently laughed at the UN for publishing a tearful report saying that no one reads its reports? Well, I can tell you about a fresh report that will sadly be read by even fewer…