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Italian Prime Minister proposes Alto Adige Decentralization for the Donbass to Open-Minded Putin
Italian Prime Minister proposes Alto Adige Decentralization for the Donbass to Open-Minded Putin
As early as June 2014 an international working group of the World Security Network has started to draft options for a possible solution of the conflict in a White Paper…
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After Minsk 2: Next Steps for Peace in Ukraine
After Minsk 2: Next Steps for Peace in Ukraine
Today's agreement in Minsk by Angela Merkel, Francois Holland and Petro Poroschenko with Vladimir Putin is a success of persistent diplomacy, with more agreements to be added soon to create…
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How War Can Come to Europe
How War Can Come to Europe
Russia’s annexation of Crimea and support for the continuing insurgency in Eastern Ukraine mean that peace in Europe can no longer be taken for granted. For several reasons, the West’s…
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Engineering Peace: White Paper Ukraine
Engineering Peace: White Paper Ukraine
Russian President Putin Vladimir Putin delivered his annual Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly on December 4th, 2014. This speech was traditionally held at the Kremlin’s St George Hall before an…
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Russia Paralyzed by Isolationism and Nationalism and the Myth of a NATO Threat
Russia Paralyzed by Isolationism and Nationalism and the Myth of a NATO Threat
Invited by the European University St. Petersburg (EUSP), the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS) and supported by the External Relations Committee of St. Petersburg and by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.,…
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Putin's World Vision
Putin's World Vision
Even for German Chancellor Angela Merkel - who phoned him more than 20 times this year - it is more and more difficult to understand Russian President Putin's world vision.…
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NATO Enlargement and Russia: Discerning Fact from Fiction
NATO Enlargement and Russia: Discerning Fact from Fiction
The crisis in Ukraine, which culminated in Russia's annexation of the Crimea, marked a new low in North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)– Russia relations. While this relationship had been deteriorating…
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Russia's thinking is like a black and white TV in an era of colour television, the internet and Facebook
Russia's thinking is like a black and white TV in an era of colour television, the internet and Facebook
Polina Klestsina from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation interviewed Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann on July 20, 2014, during the VII. EU-Russia Dialogue of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Cadenabbia in Italy. Polina…
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