Eurasia Press & News
The United States and Ukraine deny that Kyiv is preparing a military offensive in its eastern region, an assertion made by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his news conference on December 23. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that “facts make clear that the only aggression at the border …
Read More »Putin Says Efforts to Block Nord Stream 2 Foolish, Since Project Would Lower Gas Prices
Nord Stream 2, the $10.5 billion, 1,230km gas pipeline running from Russia to north-eastern Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, is technically complete and ready for operation. However, the project has yet to receive German and European Union regulatory approval, with that process threatening to drag out until …
Read More »Romania Seeks to Buy 32 Old Norwegian F-16 Fighter Jets Replaced by F-35s
Norway’s fleet of F-16 will be replaced by F-35s, in whose development and production the Nordic country has played an important role. The procurement of the 52 warplanes has been described as the largest defence deal in the country’s history. Romania wants to purchase 32 F-16 fighter jets from Norway. …
Read More »The Real Crisis of Global Order
Illiberalism on the Rise The election of Donald Trump in 2016 sparked a major debate over the nature and fate of the liberal international order, suddenly caught, it seemed, between the Charybdis of illiberal great-power challengers and the Scylla of a hostile U.S. president. Trump may have lost the presidency …
Read More »A Humane and Sensible Approach to the Immigration Crisis
The UK needs to move away from its current overtly security-focused approach to migration in favour of a more sensible and humane one. In the last year, there has been a sharp increase in the number of people trying to cross the English Channel on small boats. According to Home …
Read More »The West Surrenders its Strategic Ambiguity in the Black Sea
In the face of Russian threats, Western allies must urgently fashion a credible deterrence policy for the Black Sea, or risk their strategically important ties with regional partners. Russia’s massive military build-up around Ukraine is causing alarm in the transatlantic community, reflecting the fear that the Kremlin may decide to …
Read More »Russia and Ukraine: ‘One People’ as Putin Claims?
As Russia’s military threats to Ukraine intensify, it is worth dissecting President Putin’s use of historical props to justify the claim that Russia and Ukraine are one nation. In July, Russian President Vladimir Putin published an extraordinary essay denying Ukraine’s independent history, an argument amplified in a later Q&A. Former …
Read More »A UK–Russian Conversation on Arms Control, Strategic Stability and Ukraine
An exchange of views between UK and Russian experts on the growing tensions between Russia and the West. RUSI and the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) recently brought together experts from our two countries to discuss how to bring ‘strategic stability’ to the relationship between Russia, the UK and NATO. …
Read More »Ad-Hoc European Military Cooperation Outside Europe
This Occasional Paper examines the emergence of European-led ad-hoc military coalitions, why these forms of cooperation have emerged and what value they add to the existing European security architecture. Europe’s security architecture is dominated by NATO and the EU. They are, respectively, the primary hard and soft security providers to …
Read More »Tough Talk And Tough Talks: At Annual News Conference, Putin Sends Signals On Ukraine And NATO – Analysis
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s message to the United States, NATO, and Kyiv at his annual press conference could arguably be summed up like this: Happy Holidays — and after that, we’ll see. The choreographed, nearly four-hour event on December 23 came with attention riveted on Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine’s …
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