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November 2, 2026

Russia’s age-old strategy of exploiting minorities

Ibrahim Mammadli In March this year, a Russian online campaign promoted a fake 'Narva People’s Republic' in Estonia. It flopped. But the playbook behind it is still in use. Ibrahim Mammadli argues that Estonia can control only one step of that playbook: whether there are real grievances for Moscow to exploit. That makes integration, not tougher rules, the country’s most important security policy Read more
March 14, 2024

The third year of the Ukraine war and its possible end

Albrecht Rothacher Drawing parallels with the end of the First World War, Albrecht Rothacher looks at the prospects for an end to war in Ukraine. He starts with the worst-case scenario and then considers four further ways in which hostilities might end Read more

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