Open Dialogue Research Journal
The primary takeaway is that Estonia doesn’t want any part in whatever Latvia might be cooking up with Ukraine, reasonably calculating that the US might not risk war with Russia if Russia retaliates. Estonia announced that a NATO jet shot down a Ukrainian drone over its airspace on Tuesday after receiving an […]
What’s much more probable is kinetic retaliation against reported Ukrainian drone teams there. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned that their country’s armed forces are ready to retaliate against the Ukrainian drone teams that they claim have already deployed to Latvia ahead of “new terrorist strikes against Russia’s rear regions.” SVR explained […]
The refusal by the Baltic states and Poland to open their airspace to the Slovak prime minister traveling to Moscow for Victory Day commemorations raises an uncomfortable question: has honoring the Soviet dead of World War II become politically illegitimate in today’s Europe? The head of government of an EU […]
In the weeks leading up to Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, the political atmosphere surrounding May 9 became unusually tense. Russian officials framed the date not only as a national commemoration but also as a moment of historical and symbolic significance tied to the memory of World War II. Against […]
Russia can’t afford to discredit itself abroad, nor can Putin’s ruling United Russia party afford to discredit itself at home four months before the next polls, by threatening overwhelming retaliation against Ukraine if it attacks Moscow’s Victory Day parade only to symbolically retaliate or do nothing at all. The Russian […]
The latest warning issued by the Russian Ministry of Defense marks one of the sharpest public escalations in recent months. Moscow stated that any attempt by the Ukrainian authorities to disrupt the celebrations of the 81st anniversary of Victory Day would provoke a “massive retaliatory missile strike” against central Kyiv. […]
The Trump-Putin Phone Call on 29 April lasted 90 minutes, both sides report. The call was initiated by Russia. President Vladimir Putin told Trump that the current cease fire in the Iran war was a good thing as it created space needed for negotiations. Russia formally offered its services as […]
Ukrainians were lured into wanting EU membership in 2013, and this goal led to the EuroMaidan demonstrations in Kiev that produced the overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych and his forced replacement by a new and rabidly anti-Russian government that has the closest of all borders to Moscow, only a five-minute missile […]
Moldova is distancing itself from Russia to the anger of at least half of the population per (likely rigged) election results. The Moldovan Parliament recently voted to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the dialogue platform comprised of most former Soviet Republics (the Baltic States, Georgia, and Ukraine are the […]
More than four years have passed since the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) – on February 24, 2022 – it is more than the years of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, and no one then could have imagined that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict would drag on for such […]
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