The Moral Bankruptcy of Buying Russian Energy
The unthinkable is happening. Putin started an aggressive war against the people of Ukraine, a fellow Slav country in the middle of Europe.
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Three Russian myths that you should abandon right away
Russia is destroying Ukraine and wants to destroy the free world. Russia seems strong only because the collective West chose to be weak. For 80
Explainer: Why We Need a No-Fly Zone over Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s military forces have been making increasingly indiscriminate attacks. Entire cities are left in ruins, some without electricity and running water…
A shift in strategy
As early as October 2021, the contours of Russian invasion of Ukraine were increasingly clear. The governments of the US, UK and a few other
George Breslauer and Yuriy Gorodnichenko on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
UC Berkeley’s George Breslauer, Professor Emeritus and USSR, post-Soviet Russia and Putin scholar, and Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Berkeley Quantedge Presidential Professor of Economics, joined OLLI @Berkeley
If Ukraine falls, the world becomes more dangerous
Ukraine has been in the headlines since the Revolution of Dignity in 2014 and the public may be understandably tired of hearing more about Ukraine.