MH17: TEN YEARS LATER, ARE THE SKIES ANY SAFER? - Ten years ago, on July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines passenger flight MH17 was downed by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile over Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine. In the years following the ongoing international investigation, the Kremlin has c...

BEYOND THE SUMMIT: OUTCOMES AND THE PATH FORWARD TO UKRAINE’S NATO MEMBERSHIP - This month’s NATO Summit was a historic one, marking seventy-five years for the Alliance that is currently faced with unprecedented challenges threatening democracy and stability across the globe. Bolstered by the new...

ARE ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN ON THE VERGE OF PEACE? - Dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan may be improving, but bilateral relations and each country’s relations with their many partners remain wrapped in contradiction. Yerevan and Baku appear closer than ever to agreeing a long-awaited peace de...

BOOK LAUNCH | “BATTLEGROUND UKRAINE: FROM INDEPENDENCE TO THE WAR WITH RUSSIA” - Praised as an “authoritative” and “important addition to the literature” by Kirkus Reviews, Adrian Karatnycky’s book Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with Russia, to be published by Yale University ...

AFTER BERLIN: TANGIBLE STRATEGIES FOR RECONSTRUCTION FOLLOWING THE 2024 UKRAINE RECOVERY CONFERENCE - The report highlights the importance of sustained budgetary support and air defenses to make meaningful progress on reconstruction possible. It also explores how Ukraine can meaningfully contribu...

WHAT IS TO BE DONE? THE IMPACT OF WAR ON PUTIN’S RUSSIA - The Kremlin’s decade-long war against Ukraine and its full-scale invasion in February 2022 have brought an unimaginable scale of destruction to Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has also used the invasion to further his grip on pow...

ASSISTANT SECRETARY BRENT NEIMAN ON THE ECONOMIC FRONT IN UKRAINE - Even as fighting on the battlefield continues, Ukraine’s economy has demonstrated remarkable resilience, adapting to wartime pressures with significant support from the international community. The IMF, which recently approved $1...

RUSSIAN HYBRID WARFARE TACTICS: WILL NATO’S DEFENSES BE NEXT? - In early May, Estonia’s foreign ministry summoned Tallinn’s Russian embassy chief after a Finnish airline paused flights to eastern Estonia due to GPS disturbances, for which it believes Russia to be the culprit. The incident is one ...

REPORT LAUNCH | OIL, GAS, AND WAR: THE EFFECT OF SANCTIONS ON THE RUSSIAN ENERGY INDUSTRY - In the two-plus years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its allies have imposed approximately two thousand sanctions on Russian corporations, financial institutions, and ...

THE WASHINGTON NATO SUMMIT: UKRAINE AND TRANSATLANTIC SECURITY - This July, Washington, DC will host the NATO summit, marking the Alliance’s diamond jubilee. This summer’s summit comes at a critical juncture as for the first time since the end of World War II, a major power is committing aggressi...

A FIRESIDE CHAT WITH MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY, RUSSIAN ANTI-WAR COMMITTEE FOUNDER - Since the beginning of its brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow has only reinforced its suppression of all forms of dissent, civil society, and free media to further cement Russian President ...

A FIRESIDE CHAT WITH SIMON SHUSTER, TIME CORRESPONDENT AND AUTHOR OF THE SHOWMAN - In the aftermath of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has risen on the international stage to become a pivotal player in global politics. With noteworthy access t...

HOW TO BUILD LASTING ECONOMIC RESILIENCE IN UKRAINE - Ukraine’s economy has been battered by Russia’s full-scale invasion, including the brutal recent campaign on civilian energy infrastructure. Even so, the Ukrainian economy has remained remarkably resilient despite the violence and upheaval wro...

A NEW NEXUS: HOW CAN WE UNDERSTAND RUSSIA AND IRAN’S UNPRECEDENTED COOPERATION? - Moscow and Tehran have been close partners driven by hostility towards the West since the Iranian revolution in the late 1970s. But after Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the two groups have ...

WHAT CAN THE US LEARN FROM EUROPE ABOUT SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE? - In recent weeks and months, many European countries and the European Union have stepped up in creative ways to support Ukraine’s defense and counter Russia’s war of aggression. French president Emmanuel Macron refused to rule out send...

BY AIR AND BY SEA: WHAT DOES THE SPRING HOLD FOR UKRAINE? - Ukraine has weathered another winter of Russia’s full-scale war, albeit with some bumps. The delay in US aid has forced Ukraine to use ammunition sparingly and made it easier for Russia to finally capture the besieged town of Avdiivka. T...

Since Russia began its war of aggression against Ukraine in 2014, Ukrainian service members have fought to protect their nation’s sovereignty and freedom. The full-scale Russian invasion in 2022 has wrought still more senseless violence and destruction, yet Ukraine’s courageous defenders have sto...

REPORT LAUNCH | ALL THE AUTOCRAT’S MEN: THE COURT POLITICS OF PUTIN’S INNER CIRCLE - There was very little suspense surrounding Russia’s presidential election this month. As expected, Vladimir Putin won win a fifth term as Kremlin leader.

The latest report in the Atlantic Council’s Russia Tomorr...

A DECADE OF CRIMEA’S TEMPORARY OCCUPATION: TÜRKIYE’S ROLE IN SUPPORTING UKRAINE - February 26 marked the tenth anniversary of Russia’s temporary occupation of Crimea back in 2014, which paved the way to a full-scale invasion of Ukraine eight years ago. Türkiye was among the first countries to sup...

TWO YEARS ON: HOW EUROPE AND UKRAINE ARE WORKING TOWARD VICTORY - The Atlantic Council’s Europe Center, Eurasia Center, and Global Energy Center hosted a discussion “Two years on: How Europe and Ukraine are working toward victory.”

With the launch of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on F...

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, more than 19,000 children have been abducted by Russia and taken to Russia and Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory.

Mykola Kuleba and his nonprofit Save Ukraine work to return Ukraine's children to Ukraine and have been the only organizati...

BUILDING US NUCLEAR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE: THE RUSSIA CONNECTION - As Western countries attempt to reduce Russia’s ability to use oil and natural gas as a tool of its foreign policy, nuclear fuel remains a source of Russian influence across the globe. Rosatom’s supply of nuclear fuel powers nuclear...

REPORT LAUNCH: FIVE SCENARIOS FOR RUSSIA’S FUTURE - Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has reverberated around the world, challenging many preconceived notions about Russia and the global order. Moscow’s war has sparked debate about the future of Ukraine, NATO, and Western institutions, but ...