Related Notes Wednesday (Aug 24) marks six months to the day Russian President Vladimir Putin gave orders to launch what he referred to as a “special military operation” against Ukraine. It is also Ukraine’s Independence Day, celebrating the day its parliament...
Related Notes August 24 is Ukraine’s independence day – the day when, in 1990, the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic approved the Act of Declaration of Independence at a special session. Thirty-two years on, this historic day also marks six...
Related Notes An old dispute over a decision by the government of Kosovo in September 2021 to enforce the use of Kosovo-issued licence plates for Serbs in the northern municipalities – rather than allowing them to continue to use plates issued by the Serbian...
Related Notes As the war in Ukraine is about to head into its sixth month, the ferocity with which it is fought shows no signs of abating – neither on the battlefield, nor in the rhetoric emerging from Moscow and Kyiv. Russian attacks continue to target Ukrainian...
Related Notes One of the increasingly obvious consequences of the Ukraine war is a growing global food crisis, with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warning in March of a “hurricane of hunger”. But it is not as simple as farmers in Russia and Ukraine...
Related Notes While G20 foreign ministers were meeting in Bali, Indonesia, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, threatened further escalation in his war against Ukraine, announcing to the world that “by and large, we have not started anything in earnest yet”. What...