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The Cold War, modern Ukraine and the spread of democracy in the former Soviet bloc countries

As Russia masses forces and equipment on Ukraine’s border, international tensions over a possible invasion intensify almost daily. Ukraine has emerged as ground zero of what some pundits have dubbed a new Cold War between Russia and the West.

The Conversation

Kaja Kallas: ‘There is a certain naivety towards Russia’

The Estonian prime minister on the Baltic state’s precarious position and why many European nations misread Moscow

Financial Times

Invading Ukraine may never have been Putin's aim – the threat alone could advance Russia's goals

An invasion is not the only way the crisis in Ukraine can play out.

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Why America's elites love war

Almost no one in D.C. is eager for war with Russia — but they're eager to justify the bloated military budget

Salon

The West must accept the cold reality of Ukraine

The buildup of Russian forces near Ukraine's border has led to fears of a new war. But the conflict is hardly new, and nor are Russia's objectives. Ukraine, which has been indirectly controlled or directly repressed by Moscow-based governments for centuries, wants Nato to protect it from future Russian incursions,…

Bangkok Post

Russia-Ukraine crisis: Why are Russia and Ukraine enemies, what is Nato and will there be a Russian invasion?

The relationship between Russia and Ukraine is a very long and complicated one, causing much anxiety among observers who fear it could spill over into outright war

Wales Online

A post-Soviet border town in northern Ukraine wonders if Russia is coming back

It's hard to find a more tranquil place than this hamlet on the edge of northern Ukraine. A collection of huts sprinkled along a barely there road, it abuts the Zheveda and Tsata rivers.

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Would Russians Embrace War?

Why an Attack on Ukraine Might Erode Putin’s Support

Foreign Affairs

ASIO Sparrow Anne Neill was a 'secret service housewife' who lived an incredible double life

The Adelaide widow was a Communist Party delegate who visited the Soviet Union and met KGB spy Vladimir Petrov. She was also an ASIO secret agent.

ABC News

Commentary: Not all Russians buy Putin’s warmongering

MOSCOW — In May 1993, Estonia’s first post-Soviet leader Lennart Meri — a wise man with bitter experience of life in the Soviet Union — told the visiting U.S. deputy secretary of state that Estonia urgently needed to join NATO. It was, he said, the only guarantee that Russia wouldn’t…

Los Angeles Times

Ukraine Not Joining NATO So Why Does Putin Worry?

At the core of the Ukraine crisis is a puzzle: Why would Russian President Vladimir Putin push Europe to the brink of war to demand the West not do something that it has no plan to do anyway? Russia says NATO, the American-led alliance that has on its hands the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

What is NATO and what role does it play in the Russia-Ukraine crisis?

Formed in the aftermath of World War II to provide collective security against the Soviet Union, today NATO is the world's biggest and most powerful military alliance. This is what you need to know NATO and its role in the current Russia-Ukraine crisis.

ABC News

Commentary: Ukraine’s fate could renew a race for weapons of mass destruction

Regret is what Ukrainian leaders must be feeling these days, as Russia amasses troops along the border. There’s nothing that says “keep your hands off my territory” like fully armed, nuclear-tipped weaponry — the sort that Kyiv surrendered shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Now officials have no…

Los Angeles Times

Who could benefit from the crisis over Ukraine?

In recent months, the attention of the world's media has turned to the situation in Ukraine, where large groups of Russian troops have been deployed along the border. At the moment, this topic has become the top item for all news agencies. Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union until…

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The Conversation

Famine, subjugation and nuclear fallout: How Soviet experience helped sow resentment among Ukrainians toward Russia

Ukraine and Russia share a great deal in the way of history and culture – indeed for long periods in the past, the neighboring countries were part of larger empires encompassing both territories.

Foreign Affairs

The Putin Doctrine

A Move on Ukraine Has Always Been Part of the Plan

Reuters

Explainer-Why is Russia's Putin drawing "red lines" over Ukraine?

Ukraine has become the main flashpoint in Moscow's relations with the West, with Russian troops massed near its border and NATO's forces on standby in case Russia attacks its neighbour.

The Independent UK

Biden scrambles to defuse Ukraine crisis in first foreign policy test since Afghanistan debacle

Some experts believe Putin views US as being as vulnerable as Russia was after break-up of Soviet Union, writes Andrew Buncombe

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Where Ukraine’s Sunflowers Once Sprouted, Fears Now Grow

On a warm spring day in Ukraine 26 years ago, three men smiled for cameras as they planted symbolic sunflower seedlings in freshly tilled earth where Soviet nuclear missiles had once stood ready. That placid scene was, briefly, a launchpad for hope that the demise of the Soviet Union would…

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Guterres: World More Unpredictable than during the Cold War

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday the current world is "much more chaotic, much less predictable" than during the Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States, and it's dangerous because there are no "instruments" to deal with crises. He said in a wide-ranging press conference that…

The Independent UK

UN chief: World more unpredictable than during the Cold War

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the current world is “much more chaotic, much less predictable” than during the Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States, and it’s dangerous because there are no “instruments” to deal with crises

Inverse

At the “Roof of the World,” solar power is a necessary evil

Since the fall of the Soviet Union and Tajikistan’s subsequent independence in 1991, neither state-supplied electricity nor state water has reached Alichur, a town of 2,000 people that sits 13,000 feet above sea level in the Pamir Mountains.

The Independent UK

Democracy activist who fought behind Iron Curtain ordained into Kirk

Rev Dr Urzula Glienecke lived in Latvia under Soviet Union rule when it was dangerous to be a Christian.

The Hindu

What Vladimir Putin really wants

The West cannot ignore a determined Russian President any more as Moscow prepares for its next act — on Ukraine

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