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NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War

… forces in the Baltic states (PDF File) . And the fall of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovich  ( below, left ) in 2014 and the outbreak of fighting in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian forces and Russian separatists … Russia for reacting to the fall of its ally Yanukovich in Ukraine by sparking a civil war in eastern Ukraine, designed …
A pro-union demonstration in Romania, 2009. The flag translates to "Moldova Our Sister"

Moldova and Romania: A Long and Complicated Relationship

… Chișinău has grown since Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine in 2022.  After Ukraine , Moldova has been the country most affected by the … Sergei Lavrov warned that Moldova may become the “next Ukraine.”  Soon after, President Sandu confirmed statements …
President Joe Biden with other foreign leaders, sitting around a table with others looking on

How does Ideology Drive U.S. Foreign Relations?

… topic want to grapple with. We'll talk a little bit about Ukraine, we'll talk about China and Asia, I'll talk about … of Russia. In fact, as ... the annexation of Crimea and Ukraine in 2014 suggests, one of the problems of this … with the security concerns of Russia's first assaults in Ukraine, you could argue, its meddling in the election of …
Hitler with politicians

The Nazis Take Poland and the Start of World War II

… when Russia forcibly annexed  the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine , Poles were among those who protested most loudly. … Russian President Vladimir Putin to justify his actions in Ukraine. Outside, a mood of dismay and resignation shrouded … ago still seeps into the wars of our own time. In eastern Ukraine today fighting rages between pro-Russian separatists …
A memorial dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) in Yaroslavl.

From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War

Review of Russia: The Story of War, by Gregory Carleton (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2017)
… century, to twenty-first century conflicts in Chechnya and Ukraine. Tackling such a long stretch of history would be … annexation of Crimea  in 2014 and the stalemate in eastern Ukraine. If one follows the myth’s main script, Carleton …

History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus

… century as a rural, agrarian society. Like its neighbor Ukraine , Belarus started the 20th century with a largely … not split across the Habsburg and Romanov empires. Like in Ukraine, the first stirrings of modern nationhood were … fellow Russians (White Russians or West Russians). Like in Ukraine, Belarusian lands had once formed part of the …
The University of Algiers, ca. 1920.

The University of Algiers Library Bombing

… of schools, monuments, and historical sites in the wars in  Ukraine  and  Gaza . A  UN Report from April 2024 noted that … “annihilat[ing]… the cultural sector in Gaza.”  In Ukraine, a  UNESCO report from February 2025 has verified … . Mallard, Thomas. “Damaged Cultural Sites in Ukraine Verified by UNESCO.” UNESCO. Updated April 16, …
Monument with figures dressed as pop culture figures like Superman, Santa, and Ronald McDonald

1989: The Year That Changed It All

… you know, they draw the graffiti on the monument. With the Ukraine crisis, they colored the figures of the Soviet … you know, the Arab Spring, or, you know, what happened in Ukraine, the spring and this sort of thing? Those are the …

Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview

… And the press described the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine as a CIA plot. Russian President Vladimir Putin … articles have contended that the CIA has fomented unrest in Ukraine since 1991, that Euromaidan was a U.S.-Polish …

"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms

… Bout transported weapons through Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine to Liberia and Angola in the first years of the new … Bout‘s Russian company transported much material from Ukraine. Bout and the 21st-Century Arms Trade Just as …

The Soviet Collapse

… right up to their border . And it was the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO that prompted Putin to intervene in eastern Ukraine and seize Crimea in 2014 . While the American media …
A Nuclear Power Plant in the Untied Kingdom against a blue sky.

How Green Is the Atom?

The Past–and Future–of Nuclear Energy in the United States
… at Three Mile Island (United States, 1979),  Chernobyl (Ukraine, 1986), and  Fukushima (Japan, 2011), its supporters …