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Putin Pressured to Back Down, but War in Eastern Ukraine Has Own Momentum
Thursday’s (July 17) missile hit on Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 that killed 298 people and left a field of scattered remains in the Donetsk region,... MORE
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Chechen Experience in Urban Combat Could Be of Vital Use to Ukraine
Russia is facing a new problem and this concerns the new front that the Chechens have launched outside the North Caucasus. As a result of... MORE
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The Contact Group in Ukraine Weighted Toward Russia
The Trilateral Contact Group is the latest of several international forums that have emerged in response to Russia’s war against Ukraine (see accompanying article). Established... MORE
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Ukraine Needs a Supportive International Format for Negotiations With Russia
Yesterday’s terrorist attack that downed the Malaysian Airlines plane, killing approximately 300 passengers, occurred in an area held by pro-Russia fighters on the Ukrainian side... MORE
Chechen Experience in Urban Combat Could Be of Vital Use to Ukraine
Russia is facing a new problem and this concerns the new front that the Chechens have launched outside the North Caucasus. As a result of... MORE
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Russian Secessionists Ready for ‘State-Building’ In Ukraine’s Donetsk City
Declared by an unlawful “referendum” on May 11, the Moscow-backed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR; along with the “Luhansk People’s Republic”—LPR) has existed thus far as... MORE
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Pro-Russia Forces in Ukraine Digging in the City of Donetsk
Defeated in Slovyansk and three other districts in Donetsk province on July 5–6 (see EDM, July 10), Russia’s proxy forces have regrouped in the city... MORE
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Putin Tours Latin America, but His Fate Is Decided in Ukraine
The upcoming BRICS (a loose political-economic grouping of the large emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit, scheduled to take place... MORE
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Russia’s Actions in Ukraine: Parallels with Other “Hot Spots” of the Former Soviet Union
The conflict in eastern Ukraine has clear parallels with other “hot spots” in the former Soviet Union, where the Kremlin has ambitions. The clearest parallels... MORE
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Ukraine Determined to Avoid the “Frozen-Conflict” Paradigm
Ukraine has stepped back from the brink of the quadripartite declaration signed on July 2 in Berlin (see EDM, July 3). On July 5 and... MORE