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Andreas Umland, Ph.D., studied politics and history in Berlin, Oxford, Stanford, and Cambridge. He has been an associate professor at the Department of Political Science of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) since 2010 and an analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) of the Swedish Institute of International Relations (UI) since 2021.
![Prigozhin's Other Rebellion](/content/images/size/w1378/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-14-at-12.07.49-PM.png)
Prigozhin's Other Rebellion
The Wagner leader joins a notable group of Kremlin henchmen who have undermined the state’s rationale.
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The Legal Barriers to Ukraine-Russia Peace
Putin’s annexation of Crimea fundamentally changed Russian domestic law—and burned all the bridges that could lead to a Ukraine-Russia peace deal.
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Rough Road to Ramstein
As defense ministers meet in Germany to tussle over tanks, policymakers must know: Ukrainian victory will be a crucial defeat for Russian revanchism. The alternatives are bleak.
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Russia's Pseudo-Intellectuals
Russia's war on Ukraine is undergirded by pseudo-intellectual academics espousing pro-Kremlin ideas and a radical rejection of today's liberal world.