Tag: Russia
Ukraine’s military is outgunned but can still inflict a great deal of pain on Russian forces
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Ukraine’s ramshackle military offered no resistance to the Crimean annexation in February 2014. Since then the poorly equipped but well-motivated Ukrainian Army has taken thousands...
Is international law powerless against Russian aggression in Ukraine? No, but it’s complicated
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The world was treated to a grotesque spectacle this week. Russia, the current president of the UN Security Council, launched an invasion...
Grattan on Saturday: Faraway conflict feeds into Morrison’s national security pitch
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As Russia’s attack on Ukraine unfolds dramatically, Australia is in the choir stalls, not centre stage, when it comes to the West’s...
How Russia’s recognition of breakaway parts of Ukraine breached international law – and set the stage for invasion
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Before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, it “recognised” two parts of eastern Ukraine as sovereign states: the so-called people’s republics of...
Alexei Navalny has long been a fierce critic of the Kremlin. If he was poisoned, why now? And what does it mean?
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The headlines are grim. Alexei Navalny, a key leader of the Russian opposition, is currently fighting for his life in a coma after...
Why Democrats have filed a lawsuit against Russia – and what Australian politicians should learn from it
The US Democratic Party have filed a lawsuit against
Russia, alleging Russia hacked party computers. Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool/AAP
Last week, the Democratic Party in the United...