Russian companies and individuals are looking to move to Armenia to avoid sanctions and mobilization, according to Gayane Markosyan, a contributor to the Institute for War & Peace Reporting. Markosyan writes: Business and private individuals hope to escape the consequences of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Yerevan faces uncomfortable choice between political and diplomatic alliances. Armenian […]

The countries of Latvia and Finland have signaled that they will reject Russians seeking asylum from mobilization. Al Jazeera reports: Some Western nations have suggested they will not provide asylum or refuge to people fleeing Russia after President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation of reservists. In a televised address on Wednesday, Putin, after speaking about […]

Most of the kinetic damage Russia has taken in its war with Ukraine has occurred within the borders of Ukraine, but serious damage is being done as the best of Russia’s human capital flees for other countries to escape the war and its increased state control. In The Wall Street Journal, Georgi Kantchev, Evan Gershkovich, […]

Last week, India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, signaled a change in his government’s position on the war in Ukraine. Whereas India had maintained a neutral stance on the issue, Modi signaled to Vladimir Putin and the world that India was interested in seeing an end of the conflict. India reiterated its change in posture when […]

Vladimir Putin is betting his reputation among the Russian people on his war in Ukraine. With a partial mobilization, Putin is signaling that he’s willing to face the unrest caused by stripping fathers and sons away from their families to fight abroad. At Foreign Policy, Amy Mackinnon, Jack Detsch, and Robbie Gramer suggest that Putin is willing […]