A second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine took place on June 2. Again both leaders were not present.
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Donald Trump’s supposed negotiating skills are probably not enough to broker sustainable peace between Russia and Ukraine given the protagonists’ enmity and his own history.
Tailored messaging, repeated exposure, and false grassroots campaigns are classic propaganda techniques, now used widely by state-back trolls.
About 100,000 Crimean Tatars died as part of a massive deportation of these people by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin towards the end of the second world war.
US president Joe Biden has warned of Armageddon if Russia uses nuclear weapons and says Vladimir Putin needs an ‘off ramp’ to de-escalate.
While some parts of eastern Ukraine have been under partial Russian control since 2014, other sections continue to fight back. Most residents overall have said they don’t want to be part of Russia.
Russian actions in occupied Ukraine are following a plan modeled on how the Soviet Union dismantled Nazi influence in Germany after World War II – including arrests and revised school lessons.
None of the available methods for holding Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable are likely to actually punish him, and they may even make new atrocities more likely.
The crisis between Russia and Ukraine began with Russian objections to potential Ukrainian membership in NATO. Now it’s clear that Vladimir Putin really wants something else.
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Associate Professor of History, Rowan University, Rowan University
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Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida
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Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Harvard University
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Senior Lecturer in International Studies, Defence and Security., King's College London
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Associate Professor of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Reader in Military History and Intelligence Studies in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University
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Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Russian and East European Studies, Arizona State University
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PhD Candidate, Russian and East European Studies, University of Manchester
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Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Professor of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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