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UN: 90 Percent Of Ukrainians Could Slip Into Poverty If War Drags On

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Headlines, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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(Article text ©2022 RFE/RL, Inc., Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – rferl.org – March 16, 2022 – article text also appeared at rferl.org/a/un-ukraine-90percent-poverty/31755484.html) If Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine turns into a prolonged conflict, almost 30 percent of the Eastern European country’s population of 44 million could slip below the poverty line, while a further 62 percent would be at risk […]

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RUSSIALINK: “‘My Father Said I’m a Traitor Who Should Be Shot First’: War in Ukraine Splits Russian Families” – Moscow Times

Headlines, Military, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
European Portion of Commonwealth of Independent States

(Moscow Times – James Beardsworth – March 15, 2022) Vladimir Miroshnik hasn’t spoken to his father since March 1, a week into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Their relationship, already strained by their opposing political views, reached a breaking point when Vladimir noticed his father becoming increasingly aggressive toward his son’s opposition to the war. “I stopped speaking to my father […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine, Russia resume talks as fighting nears Kyiv” – AP

Headlines, Human Rights, Military, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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“Russian and Ukrainian negotiators held a new round of talks on Monday, even as Russia’s military forces kept up their punishing campaign to capture Ukraine’s capital with fighting and artillery fire in Kyiv’s suburbs. … [A]n airstrike on a military base near the Polish border brought the war dangerously close to NATO’s doorstep …. The negotiations taking place by video […]

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Is a Ceasefire Agreement Possible? A Negotiation Analysis of the Russia-Ukraine War

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(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org – Arvid Bell, Dana Wolf – March 12, 2022) Arvid Bell is a lecturer on government at Harvard University and the director of the Negotiation Task Force (NTF) at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Dana Wolf is an assistant professor and head of the Law and Security Program at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship; The Stalinisation of Russia; As it sinks in that he cannot win in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is resorting to repression at home” – The Economist

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Kremlin and River

“… Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine … dream[ing] of restoring the glory of the Russian empire. … [but] ended up restoring the terror of Josef Stalin. … [H]e has unleashed the most violent act of unprovoked aggression in Europe since 1939 … [and] … is turning himself into … a 21st-century Stalin [at home], resorting as never before to […]

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President Putin’s Rationality and Escalation in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

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(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo – Kimberly Marten – March 9, 2022) Kimberly Marten is Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. Prominent Western policy figures, including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Canada’s United Nations Ambassador Bob Rae, and retired U.S. National Security Advisor General H. R. McMaster, have recently questioned whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has become “irrational.” […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Here’s The Deal That Could End The Russia-Ukraine War Now” – Forbes

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“… As everyone now understands, the real reason [for Russia’s broad invasion of Ukraine] is Putin’s desire to reestablish ‘greater Russia,’ the Russia of the Soviet Union or even the tsars. He regards the collapse of the Soviet Union — … [which] included so many unwilling minorities — as ‘the greatest tragedy of the 20th century.’ His aggressions in Crimea […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukrainians Find That Relatives in Russia Don’t Believe It’s a War” – New York Times

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“Many Ukrainians are encountering a confounding and frustrating backlash from family members in Russia who have bought into the official Kremlin messaging.” “… As Ukrainians deal with the devastation of the Russian attacks in their homeland, many are also encountering a confounding and almost surreal backlash from family members in Russia, who refuse to believe that Russian soldiers could bomb […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Why Putin needs to watch his back” – Washington Post

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Kremlin and River

“No matter … the outcome … Putin’s war on Ukraine spells bad news for his regime. Neither taking Kyiv and declaring victory nor beginning peace negotiations will save the Russian president from the serious, if not fatal, domestic repercussions …. As the war drags on, the danger to Putin’s reign will come chiefly from three quarters: the oligarchs, the military […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Plan C … And Plan D …” – Lawrence Freedman

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“As the Russo-Ukrainian War takes a darker turn it is important to emphasise … [that] [t]his is a war that … Putin cannot win, however long … and however cruel his methods. … [T]he Russian campaign has been hampered by political objectives that cannot be translated into meaningful military objectives. Putin[‘s] … mythical Ukraine, a product of a fevered imagination […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine invasion: Kremlin policy adviser reveals his shock over Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade” – Sky News

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Tower and Building Inside Kremlin

“Andrey Kortunov has been on the news defending the Kremlin’s actions in the past – but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left him wondering what his president was thinking.” “… Kortunov is on a panel of foreign policy experts who advise the Kremlin. Their briefing papers would have been read by … Putin, but [Putin’s] more moderate counsel have been […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s nightmare is becoming a reality” – The Spectator

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“‘Those he commands move only in command, nothing in love’. … I remembered [Shakespeare’s] words about Macbeth as I watched a shifty … Putin force the members of his Security Council to bob up and down … tremulously affirm[ing] … support for his wise policy on Ukraine. … [E]nforced compliance among Russian’s politicians has continued in the days since, as […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Navalny calls Putin insane and urges anti-war protests” – Reuters

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“Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has called on Russians to stage daily protests against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, depicting … Putin as an ‘obviously insane tsar.’ Navalny called for protests across the country and abroad to signal that not all Russians support the war and show solidarity with the thousands of people detained in anti-war protests in Russia …. Navalny […]

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