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“Europeans must take serious and sustained action against rampant sanctions evasion by European companies contributing to arms production in Russia,” writes Nico Lange is a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). “Sanctions need to be made watertight, and companies that continue to supply Russia...

“I understand that most Western people have busy lives and don’t have time to think about all this”, writes Lera Burlakova, Democracy Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) who served in combat from 2014-2017 after joining the Ukrainian army following the Russia invasion of Crimea....

Ukraine has reasons for insisting on tech independence. China partners with Russia and supports Russia’s war effort. It needs to remember that Chinese vendors are cheaper in part because Beijing subsidizes them in an attempt to create dependency on its high-tech....

Tuzla, in the Kerch Strait, was the first hybrid Russian operation against Ukraine, setting in motion a train of events that resulted in 2022’s full-scale invasion. It also established a pattern of Russian interference in other neighboring countries....

Kremlin-endorsed propagandists celebrated the fighting as a distraction to tear the West’s eyes from Ukraine, produced new conspiracy theories to explain the news, and delighted in the discomfort and fear of Russian Jews who have emigrated to Israel....

While the necessity of supporting Ukraine, at all costs, should be obvious to all (it’s the best long-term investment the West can make against an expansionist Russia), it is a hard sell to electorates. But there is another way of doing this — we can make Putin pay. Even the populists in Europe and the U.S. would struggle to...

Suppressing nationwide uprisings has become a regular event for the regime in Iran, and its tactics are now well-honed: portray the protests as foreign in origin, pit the country’s ethnic groups against each other, and deal savagely with anyone who remains on the streets.

Europe’s telecommunications operators have long held that some big Internet companies are driving a surge in Internet traffic and hogging their networks. A 2022 report by ETNO, Europe’s telecommunications operators lobby, claimed that more than half of the global data traffic originates from the servers of six US firms:...

“There can be no pax russica. This is what would result from a surrender to the self-described peace lobby, a disparate grouping that never specifies just how many Ukrainian concessions would be possible and acceptable,” says Nicolas Tenzer, Chairman of the Center for Studies and Research on Political Decision (CERAP) and...

“EU integration is the only way to keep our democracy safe,” Moldovan President Maia Sandu says. While the tiny ex-Soviet republic, which is landlocked between Romania and Ukraine, remains committed to democracy and its plans to join the EU, Russia has been trying to undermine that goal. "Russia wants to keep us in the grey...

The founder of the World Central Kitchen (WCK), a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing food and humanitarian assistance in disaster-stricken areas worldwide is skeptical that large international organizations like the United Nations (UN) are equipped to tackle the issue of global hunger. “Will the UN be the right...

There is now an intensive effort within the Ukrainian government system to ensure that the moment liberation comes, there is a structure so that key elements of everyday life keep operating and do not simply stop. Crimea’s reintegration into the rest of Ukraine will encompass a wide range of challenges, from the public...

Russia’s near-capture of Austria, supposedly a solid democracy, is outlined in a sizzling new book, “Surprise Attack” by Peter Gridling, the former head of that security service, the BVT (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung). Gridling blames the far-right Freedom Party, which held several sensitive...

Partial exploration of the Black Sea shelf has already revealed colossal deposits of hydrogen sulfide — a gas of the future, which can potentially assist clean energy production through blending with natural gas to create much lower carbon dioxide emissions, writes Olya Korbut, an analyst on sanctions at the Black Sea...

In the physical world, the limits are clear: no democratic government is permitted to monitor citizens in their homes without a court order, even to prevent domestic violence or child sexual abuse. In the digital world, though, the answer remains unresolved. Child safety advocates believe that governments must be able to unlock...

The drama developed on September 5 after a poignant essay by Valery Garbuzov, who was at the time the director of the US and Canada Studies Institute (ISKRAN) at Russia’s Academy of Sciences, one of Russia’s leading think tanks. Garbuzov decided, heroically, to tell the truth in a public space rammed with lies. He must have...

China’s stake in Portugal represents a significant foothold in a country with a population of just over 10 million. It provides a gateway to the giant Lusophone market of more than 280 million consumers in the former colonies of Latin America and Africa, which include China’s BRICS partner, Brazil, energy-rich Angola, and...

In January last year, the Russian Navy brushed aside pleas from Dublin by announcing a major military exercise slap bang in the middle of Ireland’s fishing grounds. The country’s fishermen had other ideas: they refused to leave waters to the south of the country and maintained a round-the-clock presence, thus preventing the...