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  • 27 Jan 2023
    • Central Asia
    • Caucasus
    • Russia
    • Turkey

    How Russia loses allies amid the war in Ukraine

    Nikola Mikovic
    Setbacks in the Kremlin’s campaign are causing regional supporters to think twice about the Eurasian military alliance.
  • 12 Jan 2023
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • International law
    • War Crimes

    The hard road to justice for Russian war crimes

    Shaun Cameron
    Prosecution of war crimes in Ukraine are crucial to maintain international law and the peace and security it promotes.
  • 23 Dec 2022
    • Defence & Security
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Review

    How to Interpret 2022: Russia invades Ukraine

    Clare Caldwell
    Vladimir Putin seemed convinced Kyiv would fall in days. We look back at ten months of war.
  • 22 Dec 2022
    • Malaysia
    • Philippines
    • Defence & Security
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Administration

    The Interpreter 2022: Your most-read articles

    The Interpreter
    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dominated the year. But readers also wanted to know all about Southeast Asia’s elections.  
  • 19 Dec 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Christmas in Ukraine: hope, defiance, determination

    Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo
    Celebrating under a shadow cast by war.
  • 13 Dec 2022
    • Europe
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Trade
    • Global Issues
    • Climate change
    • Coronavirus
    • Environment
    • Transnational Challenges
    • The Americas

    2022: A global turning point

    Ian Hill
    Looking at trends and contours that have coalesced this year to make international politics more contested and unpredictable.
  • 22 Nov 2022
    • Europe
    • European Union
    • Russia
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Europe must fully embrace nuclear energy

    Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo
    With Russia’s stranglehold on the region’s energy, it is time to add a second shade of green.
  • 21 Nov 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Ukraine: No end in sight

    Ian Hill
    A ceasefire proposal would likely be rejected as a Russian ploy, yet with winter closing, neither side can expect let up.
  • 9 Nov 2022
    • Asean
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Trade
    • United States

    Countdown to Asia’s summit season

    Susannah Patton
    Conflict in Myanmar and Ukraine against a backdrop of US‑China tension – a crowded agenda will unfold in coming weeks.
  • 19 Oct 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    The banality of Putin’s evil

    Robert Horvath
    Putin is driven by the imperatives of regime security – preserving his kleptocratic rule – not national security.
  • 17 Oct 2022
    • China
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Could China save the world?

    Mark Beeson
    It is difficult to imagine Xi Jinping brokering peace in Ukraine, but if China wants to be respected, this is a chance.
  • 12 Oct 2022
    • Defence & Security
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    If Russia breaks the nuclear taboo

    Robert Ayson
    Would the use of a lower yield atomic weapon really prompt the same catastrophic logic of escalation?
  • 25 Sep 2022
    • Russia
    • Digital Disruption
    • Technology
    • United Nations

    A neck-and-neck election for the future of the internet

    Mercedes Page
    As the war in Ukraine goes from bad to worse, Russia may still win a vote to reshape the net as we know it.
  • 25 Sep 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Ukraine conflict: turning point?

    Ian Hill
    Putin’s new escalatory threats and the near-existential battle for Russia and its president.
  • 20 Sep 2022
    • Central Asia
    • China
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    The war in Ukraine is pushing Central Asia away from Russia

    Bermet Talant
    Russia’s loss has been China’s gain.
  • 19 Sep 2022
    • China
    • Russia

    China’s ungainly balancing act with Russia

    Michael Clarke
    The promise is a “no limits” friendship. But there are evident boundaries, all the same.
  • 9 Sep 2022
    • Central Asia
    • China
    • India
    • Russia

    The SCO: an illiberal club of growing global significance

    Nick Bisley
    A likely face-to-face meeting between Putin, Xi and Modi will be an uncomfortable sight for Quad partners.
  • 6 Sep 2022
    • China
    • North Korea
    • Russia
    • Review

    China, Russia and North Korea: the wars that never end

    Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo
    A new book explores pride and defiance as weapons of history in the world’s socialist and autocratic bloc.
  • 1 Sep 2022
    • Australia in the World
    • Russia
    • United States

    Downer, Turnbull, Trump and a poke in the Five Eyes

    Daniel Flitton
    Just a diplomat doing his job? A new book puts the spotlight back on Australia, Russia and interference in the US election.
  • 1 Sep 2022
    • European Union
    • Germany
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    A new solidarity? Olaf Scholz on the future of Europe

    Marcus Colla
    Acknowledging the continent’s centre is “moving eastwards” marked the German chancellor’s address as visionary, of sorts.
  • 31 Aug 2022
    • Russia

    Death of a Russian ultranationalist

    Matthew Sussex
    What is the effect of the death of a Russian ultranationalist? Unfortunately, more of the same, it seems.
  • 31 Aug 2022
    • Europe
    • Russia

    Mikhail Gorbachev: The last revolutionary

    Marcus Colla
    Ambitious Soviet reformer whose political career was defined by “perestroika”.
  • 22 Aug 2022
    • Europe
    • European Union
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Six months of war in Ukraine: Europe’s life and fate

    Marcus Colla
    Emotions have inevitably subsided but support for Ukraine remains resolute – enough to dismay Putin-loving populists.
  • 11 Aug 2022
    • China
    • India
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    India and Russia: friends for a reason, friends for a season

    Aarti Betigeri
    Delhi plays a delicate balancing act between self-interest and historical friendship. And it’s all about oil and gas.
  • 10 Aug 2022
    • North Korea
    • Russia

    Russia and North Korea: never waste a good crisis

    Gabriela Bernal
    With the world focused on Ukraine, Taiwan and elsewhere, North Korea is making mischief and remains a threat.
  • 3 Aug 2022
    • Russia
    • Turkey

    Russia and Turkey: Sometimes strongmen need to get along

    Ian Hill
    Putin and Erdoğan have forgiven all manner of friendship-breaking behaviour to retain their power in Eurasia.
  • 26 Jul 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Winter is coming: staying the course on Ukraine

    Ian Hill
    Standing firm against Russia won’t be easy for Western governments faced with Putin’s chokehold on European gas.
  • 30 Jun 2022
    • Defence & Security
    • Europe
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Public Opinion

    War fatigue in the West

    Bermet Talant
    The democratic world passed the compassion test for Ukraine. Now it faces the real challenge.
  • 28 Jun 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Syria
    • Turkey

    How Turkey’s position on Ukraine is further destabilising Syria

    Samy Akil , Alexander Langlois
    Erdoğan wants sanctions relief and is forcing NATO leaders into making an uncomfortable choice.
  • 9 Jun 2022
    • Russia
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam
    • Philippines
    • Ukraine

    Thailand seeking to profit from a global food crisis

    Craig Keating
    The war in Ukraine has highlighted weaknesses in Thailand’s policymaking and prompted cartel behaviour … again.
  • 7 Jun 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Is Vladimir Putin sick?

    Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo
    What rumours about the Russian president’s health reveal about the Kremlin – and the rest of us.
  • 3 Jun 2022
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Global food threats: a chicken and egg story

    Vani Swarupa Murali
    “Temporary disruptions” carry a long term risk. But unwinding international supply chains could send farmers backward.
  • 30 May 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    War in Ukraine: Gloomy prospects

    Ian Hill
    What both sides might eventually have to settle for to end the fighting – and when – is far from clear.
  • 27 May 2022
    • Defence & Security
    • Europe
    • Russia
    • European Union
    • Ukraine

    Ukraine: The view from Warsaw

    Melissa Conley Tyler
    More than offering neighbourly support, Poland wants to ensure Russia suffers a strategic defeat.
  • 17 May 2022
    • Asia
    • United States
    • Australia
    • India
    • Japan
    • Russia
    • Energy
    • Ukraine

    No Gas: Lessons from Poland and Bulgaria for the Quad

    Angus Houston , Marc Grossman
    The risk of disrupted energy supplies is not only in Europe but a danger in the Indo-Pacific, too.
  • 9 May 2022
    • Syria
    • Russia
    • Turkey
    • Ukraine

    Turkey’s leverage over Russia – in Syria and beyond

    Nikola Mikovic
    Ankara and Moscow are in an unusual power play where the Kremlin turns a blind eye to actions that aid its adversaries.
  • 3 May 2022
    • Russia
    • European Union
    • Ukraine

    European neutrality is dying out

    Daniel Woker
    Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has transformed future security policy arrangements to Russia’s detriment.
  • 2 May 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Transnistria: The next front of the Ukraine war

    David Brewster
    Moscow is stirring tensions in a separatist region in neighbouring Moldova, but its moves may backfire.
  • 29 Apr 2022
    • War Crimes
    • Russia
    • International law
    • Ukraine

    Putting Putin on trial to enforce a price for the powerful

    Shivangi Seth
    Building a just international order must go beyond the interest of a few to foster a true test of global accountability.
  • 26 Apr 2022
    • United States
    • China
    • Russia
    • Vietnam

    Vietnam’s “Four No’s” of defence policy are being tested

    Huynh Tam Sang
    The war in Ukraine has forced Hanoi into a delicate dance between Russia and the United States.
  • 22 Apr 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • International law
    • United Nations
    • War Crimes

    Even Putin is not beyond the law

    Donald R Rothwell
    International and domestic justice systems are working in the background to bring accountability in the war on Ukraine.
  • 22 Apr 2022
    • China
    • India
    • Pakistan
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    India-Russia: A friend in need

    Christopher Snedden 
    New Delhi’s reluctance to speak out on Ukraine is also influenced by own ambition in the disputed Kashmir region.
  • 21 Apr 2022
    • Global Economy
    • G20
    • IMF
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Economic diplomacy: After Ukraine, the IMF ponders the future

    Greg Earl
    A decoupling world will still need an old-style cooperative rescue service to repair the economic minefields.
  • 21 Apr 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Rallying around the flag: Domestic support for Putin is holding up

    Ian Hill
    Russians doubt what they are told about the Ukraine conflict yet their view is still shaped by relentless propaganda.
  • 20 Apr 2022
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Russia
    • Sri Lanka
    • Ukraine

    Russia-Ukraine: It always comes down to food

    Vani Swarupa Murali
    War in eastern Europe is devastating the supply of staple goods to distant regions that can least afford it.
  • 20 Apr 2022
    • War Crimes
    • Russia
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Ukraine

    The duty to prevent genocide in Ukraine

    Juliette McIntyre , Dominique Fraser
    A serious risk of Russia committing genocide imposes legal obligations for states to do what they can to stop it.
  • 19 Apr 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    In Putin’s war, everybody loses

    Peter Layton
    The war may freeze in place, but the future peace will not be like the old peace before Russia invaded.
  • 14 Apr 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Bucha: Capturing the horror

    Lauren Williams
    The story of a Russian massacre in the Ukraine town needed to be told. And like all images, context is important.
  • 7 Apr 2022
    • Russia
    • Turkey
    • Ukraine

    Turkey plays the dance of the go-betweens in Ukraine war

    Marcus Colla
    Ankara is perfectly placed to mediate between Kyiv and Moscow, and recoup some credibility with NATO at the same time.
  • 1 Apr 2022
    • Cyber Warfare
    • Cyber Security
    • Russia
    • Technology
    • Ukraine

    Ukraine: This isn’t the information war you were looking for

    Lesley Seebeck
    But watch a change in tempo for cyber operations as the on-the-ground military situation trends towards stalemate.
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