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Putin Suggests Own Terms for a Dialogue With Ukraine
Addressing an international investment forum in Moscow yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin adopted an unusually restrained tone toward Ukraine. In effect, Putin seems to suggest... MORE
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Russian Military Presence Enforces Division of Ukraine’s Donbas
The armistice, slowly taking hold in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk provinces (collectively known as the Donbas region), basically consigns parts of those territories to Russia’s... MORE
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Ukraine Not Ready for Winter Without Russian Gas
Russia has been threating those European states that have continued to deliver natural gas to Ukraine after Russia has cut its own supplies to the... MORE
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Political Implications of the Russia (‘Donetsk/Luhansk’)–Ukraine Armistice
The shape of any political settlement will depend on whether Russian troops and paramilitary personnel with their weaponry are evacuated from what is legally Ukraine’s... MORE
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Armistice Opens Way to Russian Partition of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk Provinces
On September 20 in Minsk, negotiators from Ukraine, Russia, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)—which together constitute the Tripartite Contact Group—as well... MORE
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Ukraine Grants More Powers to Localities in Russian-Controlled Territory (Part Two)
Ukraine’s law on the “special procedure of local self-administration in individual districts in the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces” (Ukraiynska Pravda, September 16; see Part One... MORE
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Ukraine Grants More Powers to Localities in Russian-Controlled Territory (Part One)
On September 16, the Ukrainian parliament approved a “Law on the special procedure of local self-administration in individual districts in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk provinces”... MORE
Under Two Flags: Chechen Fighters in Eastern Ukraine
Persistent rumors have existed for some time about the involvement of Chechens in pro-Russian military groups fighting in eastern Ukraine (see EDM, July 18). A... MORE
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Under Two Flags: Chechen Fighters in Eastern Ukraine
Persistent rumors have existed for some time about the involvement of Chechens in pro-Russian military groups fighting in eastern Ukraine (see EDM, July 18). A... MORE
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Russia Wields Upper Hand in Ukraine’s Donbas Post-Armistice
Russia’s war against Ukraine is a multi-dimensional conflict undertaking. It has come to a standstill on the battlefield in Ukraine, but continues nonetheless in its... MORE