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Alumnus Jonathan works with Ukrainian refugees: ‘They still have a smile on their face’ 24 February 2023When alumnus Jonathan Katzman started his master's programme in Russian and Eurasian Studies, he didn't foresee how useful those skills would be in th...
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A year of war against Ukraine: What now? 16 February 2023After a year of war against Ukraine, professors André Gerrits, Antoaneta Dimitrova and Frans Osinga look back at Russian aggression and Western unity ...
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war 23 January 2023According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take Russia’s words and m...
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Falling bombs and looting soldiers: how to protect Ukraine’s cultural heritage? 23 January 2023The war in Ukraine is leading not only to human suffering. Ukraine's cultural heritage is also experiencing the consequences of the war: museums are b...
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Wei Chu receives SNMAP funding for dating earliest dwelling structures in Ukraine 19 December 2022At some point in the deep past the first known dwelling structures were built out of mammoth bones in a country we now know as Ukraine. Archaeologist ...
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Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories 19 December 2022Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the Unive...
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Combining art and science in the recovery of Ukraine 08 December 2022How wonderful would it be to use art, technology and science in Ukraine's recovery? Young Ukrainians currently residing in Poland get guidance to deve...
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Special operations in an era of escalating great power competition: ‘There is no shortage of challenges’ 27 September 2022On Tuesday 20 September, David Kilcullen, one of the world’s leading experts on modern warfare, visited Leiden University to discuss future developmen...
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Mentor network for students and researchers affected by war in Ukraine: 'These are our colleagues' 11 August 2022When Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February, normal life there came to a halt. To ensure that affected students and researchers can continue th...
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EUniWell welcomes Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 09 August 2022Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU), a leading Ukrainian university, is now a member of the EUniWell Alliance. KNU and the EUniWell par...
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Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in GLOBEnews about Putin 05 July 2022Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Professor of International Relations and Diplomatic Affairs at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, says we must block...
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Belarus is the only Russian ally left in Europe: what is in it for them? 02 June 2022While all European nations have condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is one country Russia can still count on: Belarus. Russia even used i...
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Video: Is the hypersonic rocket system the new super weapon? 01 June 2022Missiles that travel at approximately six thousand kilometres per hour, up to 5 or 6 times the speed of sound. Has Russia used those against Ukraine a...
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Violations of law during armed conflicts should be investigated – also by Russia 12 May 2022
The chance that it will do so is about zero, but Russia is legally obliged to investigate violations of law during the war in Ukraine. States that ent...
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Aleydis Nissen in The Diplomat on BTS and mandatory military service 10 May 2022K-pop band BTS joining the Korean military is a compulsory obligation, one with increased meaning as tension builds on the Korean Peninsula and around...