March, 2022

• 5 March

  Russian businessman places $1m bounty on Putin’s head

  

  A Russian businessman has placed a $1 million bounty on Vladimir Putin’s head and urged the country’s military officers to bring the president to justice. Entrepreneur Alex Konanykhin made the promise in a post on social media site LinkedIn and called it his “moral duty” to take action and help …

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• 5 March

  Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Putting Azerbaijan in a Bind

  

  On Feb. 22, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visited Moscow at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin at what was a sensitive moment—just a day after Moscow officially recognized the independence of the separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, and a day before Russia launched a full-scale …

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• 5 March

  Saied Levels Yet Another Blow at Tunisia’s Democracy

  

  Today, the Ukrainian people are fighting—quite literally—for their right to determine their own fate, independently and democratically. It was not so long ago that millions of people in multiple nations of the Middle East and North Africa rose up to fight for democracy at home in a wave of revolutions …

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• 5 March

  The Ukraine War: A Global Crisis?

  The overwhelming support for a UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion shows that countries around the world see it as attacking global norms. Yet policymakers also view the crisis in terms of their own national interest. Crisis Group experts assess the war from thirteen vantage points. On 2 March, the UN …

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• 5 March

  What Caused The Post–Cold War Stalemate Over NATO – OpEd

  

  As the invasion of Ukraine continues to unfold, those seeking to understand how such a tragedy could come to pass would do well to pick up M.E. Sarotte’s new book Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post–Cold War Stalemate. Sarotte, the Kravis Professor of Historical Studies at …

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• 5 March

  ISIS Plans Significant Attack on the al-Hol Camp

  ISIS is reportedly trying to seize the al-Hol camp in northeast Syria, according to North Press. On Wednesday, a high-ranking official said they received intelligence information detailing that the Islamic State (ISIS) is planning for a full-scale control over the al-Hol Camp in the east of Hassakeh, northeastern Syria. Two …

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• 5 March

  Moldova Could Be the Next Flashpoint in Europe’s Standoff With Putin

  

  As the war in Ukraine enters its second week, the continent’s eyes are already turning toward neighboring Moldova. The European Union’s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, made an emergency visit there yesterday, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made a last-minute visit next door to Romania. The main …

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• 5 March

  Serbia’s Days of Hedging Between the EU and Russia Might Be Over

  

  The European Union has spent much of the past decade divided and impotent, as it flailed its way through a series of seemingly never-ending crises. But Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine last week appears to have reenergized the bloc, leading to the emergence of a newly assertive EU bound together …

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• 4 March

  Thermobaric rockets: Russia’s most fearsome weapon that could destroy a city block in a single shot

  

  As the fighting in Ukraine intensifies in its largest cities, fears are rising that a war of attrition will mean an escalation of violence and the use of ever more deadly weapons. On Saturday, a CNN correspondent captured footage of what appeared to be a TOS-1 heavy flamethrower system being …

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• 4 March

  Ukraine: Russian space chief suggests ISS could crash into US or Europe as a result of sanctions

  

  The head of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, has suggested that the International Space Station (ISS) could fall out of orbit and crash into the United States or Europe as a result of sanctions on Russia. The comments came following US president Joe Biden’s announcement of new sanctions that “will …

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