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Russian Presence in Ukrainian Inland Waterways: Ukraine’s Security Chokepoint
Last month (April 2018), Ukrainian Deputy Infrastructure Minister Yury Lavrenyuk appealed to the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to prohibit Russian vessels from... MORE
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Russia’s Escalating War of Attrition With Ukraine
Dry and sunny summer weather in the southern wooded and steppe reaches of the Russian-Ukrainian border means trouble and potential military escalation as the land... MORE
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Ukraine to Resume Privatization According to New Rules
The Ukrainian government will resume its privatization campaign in October, the acting head of the local privatization body, the State Property Fund, Vitaly Trubarov, announced... MORE
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Ukraine Threatens to Block Russian Shipping on the Danube
In response to Moscow’s threat to bottle up Ukrainian shipping within the shared Azov Sea, the Ukrainian government is currently considering a plan to block... MORE
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Beyond Syria and Ukraine: Wagner PMC Expands Its Operations to Africa
The terrible defeat suffered by forces of the Wagner Group private military company (PMC) at Deir el-Zour (Syria), in early February 2018 (see EDM, February... MORE
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Ukraine Restoring Military Base Near Hungarian Border
In recent years, Ukraine has been fostering a national ideology that has significantly impacted the quality of relations with its western neighbors, notably Poland and... MORE
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Moscow Using Serbs Against Bosnia as It Did Ethnic Russians Against Ukraine
Many Western analysts have focused on the ways Moscow is seeking to use ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers in the former Soviet republics to expand the... MORE
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A Farewell to ATO: Ukraine Shifts Command of Forces Serving Around Temporarily Occupied Territories
Always a misnomer, albeit a deliberate one, Ukraine’s “Anti-Terrorist Operation”(ATO) in and surrounding the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk is slated to come... MORE
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Moscow Plans New Arctic Port to Bypass Baltics and Ukraine
Because oil and natural gas are Russia’s largest exports (Gks.ru, accessed April 3), it is entirely understandable that Moscow’s efforts to build pipelines to the... MORE
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Court Ruling in Favor of Ukraine Triggers New Gas Conflict With Russia
Ukraine’s national oil and natural gas company, Naftogaz Ukrainy, claimed a final victory in a four-year dispute over gas supply and transit with Russia’s Gazprom.... MORE