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Ukraine considers it unacceptable to continue Russia’s presence in UNESCO. We expect that the Ukrainian side will shortly receive an .....

Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko are confident that Ukraine will survive and defeat the aggressor. The three former .....

The Ministry of Economy of Ukraine called on leading global IT companies to freeze all transactions and agreements with Russia and stop providing any services to the aggressor country.

On February 24, Russia started a full-scale war with Ukraine. 

Source: Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine Ukraine is preparing a lawsuit against Russia at the UN International .....

The Ukrainian government has approved a decision to temporarily close checkpoints across the state border with Russia and Belarus.

Ukrainian diplomats have been working around the clock so that European countries could agree on a decision to cut Russia off from the global SWIFT payment system.

Russia has distorted the meaning of genocide and its most serious treaty obligations to justify the invasion of Ukraine and its own gross human rights abuses.

Russia has now blocked almost all parts of the Black and Azov Seas and is preparing for naval warfare with Ukraine.

Officials in the United States have said Washington has an understanding with Berlin about shutting down the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea if Russia invades Ukraine, news outlets have reported.

Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Virtual Only. This event will not be held in person. Natural gas prices in Europe have spiked in recent weeks. In the meantime, Russia is pressing for early certification of the newly-completed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which would increase capacity for moving gas from Russia to Europe. How serious is the gas situation in Europe, and how might Nord Stream 2 affect it? What motivates Moscow's push to get the new pipeline in operation? What policy should the U.S. government pursue on these questions? Ambassador Daniel Fried of the Atlantic Council and Edward Chow of Center for Strategic and International Studies will address these issues on November 17. About the Speakers: In the course of his forty-year Foreign Service career, Ambassador Fried played a key role in designing and implementing American policy in Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. As special assistant and NSC senior director for Presidents Clinton and Bush, ambassador to Poland, and...

Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: In-person for Stanford affiliates, open to the public via Zoom There is an ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia. It is not a war solely for territories, resources, or people — it's an ideological war, indicative of the battle between authoritarianism and democracy. What is the real nature of this conflict and who are the parties involved? What tools does the Kremlin use to control the narrative and what can be done to stop it? And why is Ukraine the cornerstone of democracy in the region? Join former Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Honcharuk, the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Visiting Fellow at FSI, to discuss. The Liautaud Fellowship was established to bring former heads of state or senior policymakers to Stanford, with the goal of promoting meaningful dialogue on the challenges world leaders face in crafting policy solutions for pressing global problems. Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the former President of Estonia, was the inaugural Liautaud Fellow in 2017, fol...

Romanian executive Marius Dorner will become global subsidiaries group head of Citi’s Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan (RUK) cluster and of Citi Russia on November 1, 2021, subject to approval by the relevant regulatory authorities.

The Zapad-21 drills point to deepening ties between Russia and Belarus