The New Cold War And A Freezing Ukraine
By Evgeny Pudovkin. During the last twelve months, the Ukraine crisis has been largely absent from the front pages. The topic has reemerged now after…
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A Different Kind of Reset in Russia
The U.S. Congress is close to passing a resolution increasing sanctions on Russia, along with Iran and North Korea, and it’s likely that President Donald…
Review: Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands
Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands, Richard Sakwa, I.B. Tauris, 2015, £18.99. Back in 1997, Martin Feldstein wrote an important article for Foreign Affairs entitled…
Why The Confusion? Putin Told Us The Plan
What’s so confusing? Last year when President Putin said he was going to take military action in Syria he was quite clear about his intentions…
Syria: A Fight Putin Wants to Pick?
By David Waywell It was a small tick in the clockwork of world affairs, but one that said much about President Putin’s dilemma. On Tuesday…
Jeremy Corbyn: Fifty Shades of Black and White
More than 40% of W&Y readers are from outside the UK. If you are in that category then apologies in advance for involving you in…
From The Front Lines of Donetsk- Guest Writer, Kitty Logan
Low-key talks prevent ceasefire breaches in eastern Ukraine from spiralling into all-out war. By Kitty Logan (in Donetsk) A senior Russian officer paces the graveled…
The Why Of…. Bullets to the Baltics, Bortnikov to the Beltway.
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, far away countries about which we know nothing? Not really, more, democratic fully integrated members of the European Union, and NATO. So…
The Why of…. Debaltseve, and beyond
Why is the Ukrainian town of Debaltseve always described in news reports as ‘strategic’? In the first instance it is because it is a railway…