Op-Ed: Can The UK’s Professions Stop Butlering to the World?
A lively event in parliament this week discussed how Britain’s PR industry could stop ‘butlering to the world’: serving kleptocrats and some of the most corrupt people around.[1] As…
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Op Ed: Out of the spotlight Belarusians’ struggle for freedom continues amidst persistent repression
As 2024 dawned, the world found itself plunged into deeper socio-political upheaval, with ever more tumultuous events dominating global headlines. Overshadowed amongst these was the elections that took place in…
Two Years On: New recommendations for the safety of journalists working on the frontline
The London-based charity Justice for Journalists Foundation (JFJ), in partnership with the National Union of Journalists in Ukraine, has been collecting open-source evidence and satellite imagery of attacks on media…
War in Ukraine: The ongoing conflict has provided growing strategic opportunities for GCC states
Heading into the third year of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Gulf Arab states - the six states comprising the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia…
Legal impasse or excuse for inaction? The state of play in the efforts to seize oligarchs’ assets
In the two years since Russia’s unlawful invasion of Ukraine, policymakers in the Western block have made big statements of their intention to seize Russian oligarchic wealth in their countries.…
Two years on: The importance of protecting the media and winning the informational frontline in Ukraine
The Ukrainian army has been holding the Russian aggressor off for two years already. In its desire to destroy Ukraine at any cost, the Kremlin has spared neither its missiles…
Two years on: Breaking the cycle of impunity for Russian war crimes
The full-scale invasion of Ukraine is a result of the total impunity that Russia enjoyed for decades. The Russian military has committed terrible crimes in Chechnya, Moldova, Georgia, Syria, Mali,…
Two years on: in the face of continued Russian aggression, Moldova is navigating its path towards the West
Two years have elapsed since Russia initiated its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, yet the reverberations persist across the European continent. Moldova, standing among the most affected states after Ukraine, grapples…
Two years on: Business as usual in a new geopolitical reality?
Two years into the full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine, Central Asia finds itself under slightly less pressure to take sides. It seems that both Russia and the West have finally…
Two years on: The war has left the OSCE in peril, but the institution is worthy of reinvestment
As the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine heads into its third year, the Euro-Asian and Euro-Atlantic security orders remain deeply unsettled, and there is little prospect of their imminent…