Post Views: 173 Ukraine says 19 troops, initially thought dead, exchanged for 11 Russian sailors who were rescued from sinking ship near Odesa Ukrainian troops who famously told an approaching…
Post Views: 216 The European Union must recognize that its bureaucratic dilatoriness and subordination of the strategic element to domestic politics in negotiating Ukraine’s relationship to Europe contributed to turning…
Post Views: 242 Now, it seems the EU has a greater ability to concentrate on economic and technical issues than on historic issues. But if Europe is to participate in…
Post Views: 391 Tensions with the West over NATO’s presence in the former Soviet space cast a long shadow over the annual conference. Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual…
Post Views: 250 Whenever political instability looms in the Balkans, the habitual response is to call for more E.U. and U.S. engagement. Like many War on the Rocks authors before me, I too have been guilty of…
Post Views: 319 BIRN has identified 135 Chinese-linked projects in the Balkans worth more than 32 billion euros. Few have come without controversy. It started in 2009; the financial crisis…