NOBEL PRIZE WINNER OLEKSANDRA MATVIICHUK ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND RUSSIAN AGGRESSION - Since Russia’s large-scale invasion, Matviichuk has worked to document Russia’s war crimes and spread global awareness of the Kremlin’s wider illegal actions in Ukraine and beyond. And as the Russian military contin...

KURSK TO POKROVSK: HOW IS THE BATTLEFIELD CHANGING IN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA? - Ukraine’s offensive into Russia’s Kursk Oblast has been a success. Ukrainian forces have captured over 1200 kilometers of territory, beaten back a Russian counteroffensive, and fortified their positions south of the Seim ...

REPORT LAUNCH | RUSSIA’S WAR ON UKRAINE: MOSCOW’S PRESSURE POINTS AND US STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES - Whichever candidate takes the White House in November, the Russian war on Ukraine will be a major challenge. To handle it successfully, leaders in the West must realize that Moscow is fighting not j...

UKRAINE’S ADVANCE IN KURSK: WHAT’S NEXT AND IMPLICATIONS - Ukraine has surprised the Russians and the world with a lightning strike, which according to the Financial Times, reportedly enabled them to capture one week into the operation as much as 1000 square kilometers of the Kursk Oblast, with f...

REPORT LAUNCH | RUSSIA WITHOUT RUSSIANS? PUTIN’S DISASTROUS DEMOGRAPHICS - Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated Russia’s daunting demographic crisis. Though Putin has spoken frequently about Russia’s demographic problems since the early 2000s, scattere...

RUSSIA’S BIG PRISONER SWAP, POLITICAL REPRESSION, AND REGRESSIVE FOREIGN POLICY - The world was stunned by the news that the largest international prisoner swap since the Cold War freed two dozen individuals through a multinational deal on August 1, 2024. The swap, which secured the release of Am...

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...