John Besemeres

Biography
Publications
John Besemeres taught politics at Monash University, was head of Polish and later Slavonic Studies at Macquarie University, spent 5 years working as a translator in Belgrade and Warsaw, served for some 30 years in several Australian government portfolios including PM&C, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and Foreign Affairs and Trade, and has published extensively on Russian and Eastern European affairs.

Russia-Ukraine: soggy response to Kerch aggression
It is not tensions that are escalating but the relentless Russian acts of aggression against Ukraine.

Putin’s Trump-supported hybrid war on the West
It needs to be understood that Russia views the EU and the West generally as an enemy.