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Ukraine/Russia - Former State Department official on the Russia-Ukraine war, Charlotte Ukrainians speak out, National Public Radio WFAE

US/EU/Digital - Promoting Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises Access to and Use of Digital Tools, Daniel S. Hamilton, Transatlantic Leadership Network  

Must Reads

Global - The liberal world order is gone, but the West lives on, Samuel Goldman, The Week

Global - The End of Globalization? Adam Posen, Foreign Affairs

Russia/Europe - The Russian Federation is excluded from the Council of Europe, Council of Europe

Russia/Ukraine - A big war in Ukraine: The Kremlin’s goals and consequences for world politics, Mykola Vorobiov, Institute on Modern Russia

Russia/Ukraine - Russia’s war on Ukraine: There is worse to come (for the West as well), Ian Bond, Elisabetta Cornago, Camino Mortera-Martinez and Luigi Scazzieri, Centre for European Reform

Russia/Ukraine - Ukraine and Russia explore neutrality plan in peace talks, Max Seddon, Roman Olearchyk, Arash Massoudi and Neri Zilber, Financial Times

Ukraine - ‘The birth of a new Ukraine’: how Russia’s war united a nation, John Reed, Guy Chazan and Roman Olearchyk, Financial Times

Ukraine/Germany - English translation of Ukraine President Zelenskyy Address to German Bundestag

Ukraine/Germany - Invoking the Holocaust, Zelenskyy hammers Germany for failing Ukraine, Laurenz Gehrke, Politico

Ukraine/US - Fact Sheet on U.S. Security Assistance for Ukraine, The White House

US/Europe/Russia - With or without Russia? The Boris, Bill and Helmut Bromance and the Harsh Realities of Securing, Kristina Spohr and Kaarel Piirimäe, Diplomacy and Statescraft

US/Sanctions - The U.S. Is the Only Sanctions Superpower. It Must Use That Power Wisely, Henry J. Farrell and Abraham L. Newman, New York Times

Baltics - Fear, Solidarity, and Calls for Further Action in the Baltics as Russia Invades Ukraine, Māris Andžāns, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Germany - Germany’s Shifting Policy Towards Russia: The Sudden End of Ostpolitik, András Rácz, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Health - A covid surge in Western Europe has U.S. bracing for another wave, Lenny Bernstein and Joel Achenbach, Washington Post

Digital/Finance - Digital Currencies: The US, China, and the World At a Crossroads, Darrell Duffie and Elizabeth Economy, eds., Hoover Institution

EU/Defense - Flexible Defence Cooperation in Europe: FNC, JEF and EI2, Tuomas Iso-Markku 

and Tyyne Karjalainen, EUIdea