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The Long Game: Why Protraction Continues to Underpin Moscow’s Strategy to Reclaim Ukraine
Photo Credit: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine By Shawn RostkerEditor in Chief Conditions were cloudy with a chance of showers as the sun rose over Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on Thursday, February 24. The literal fog of war had set in across the nation of roughly 43 million people, and for residents in and around the…
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Op-Ed: The Kazakhstan Protests: The Broader Implications of The Re-Birth of Russian Geopolitical Power
Photo Credit: Valery Sharifulin By Nicholas TappinStaff Writer The protests in early January calling for political and socio economic reform within Kazakhstan, stemming from an abrupt increase in oil prices, revealed a fundamental conflict within the region: a general dissatisfaction with the authoritarian political order that has characterized most of the post-Soviet states and underpinned…