Russia: +28,697 square miles. 12% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to half the size of the U.S. state of Iowa). Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia presently controls, including Crimea ...

Even before the U.S. sanctioned Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, President Donald Trump was insisting that the Russian "economy is going to collapse.” The Oct. 22 announcement ...

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Join the NYU Jordan Center in conversation with Columbia University's Dr. Anastasiia Vlasenko for a talk on Ukrainian legislation and politics How do legislative networks affect politics? This project ...

While the conflict in eastern Ukraine initially served as a magnet for international fighters of various stripes, the situation began to change around the end of 2014. The initial chaos of the war in ...

This article is part of a series on the impact of U.S. and Russian military complexes on the bilateral relationship. "Influence of the Defense Industry on US National Security Strategy" by Matt Korda ...

Analysts continue to debate what confluence of factors has shaped Vladimir Putin’s decision to order the so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine. Some heavyweights in the world of policy ...

The election of U.S. President Donald Trump changed U.S. policy toward Ukraine from “as long as it takes” to seeking a negotiated peace settlement. These negotiations will be driven by the battlefield ...

In the age of attention deficit disorder politics, this week’s flare-up of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan has ensured that great powers have turned their attention to the South Caucasus.

"Strategic Deterrence measures are taken continuously by one party, in peaceful and in military times, and not only to prevent acts of force inflicting or able to inflict strategic-level damage on one ...

When the simmering conflict between Russia and Ukraine turned into a full-scale war in February, a flurry of media articles followed, anticipating a large influx of foreign fighters on Ukrainian ...

Each in his own way, Henry Kissinger and George Soros are lightning rods for both pundits and politicians and, whenever they make pronouncements, commentators are apt to focus as much on the messenger ...