Dmytro Pavel

Dmytro Pavel

LATEST STORIES BY DMYTRO PAVEL

 

OPINION: The beginning of Putin's economic collapse

Russian military aggression against Ukraine since Feb. 24 has launched irreversible damaging processes against Russia itself. From the end of the Cold War in 1991 to the first failed military campaign in Ukraine in 2014, Russian economics were integrated into the Western economic system. Its share in the world economy is limited – just 3.1% in 2019. It’s dominated by the world economy, follows global trends and obeys the rules written by the civilized world.

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March 15, 2022 Columnists
A woman walks with a bicycle next to a building damaged during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the separatist-controlled town of Volnovakha in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, 2022.

GUEST COLUMN: Ukraine and a deluded Putin

The unprovoked invasion of democratic Ukraine by the Russian military appears to have united most of the world in opposition. It is now clear that since 2014 Russian president Vladimir Putin’s strategic goal has been to bring all of Ukraine under his fist — not just the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. An increasingly cynical Putin employed classic imperial methods of territory acquisition — military and diplomatic — to create the so-called Novorossiya to include the two regions, but also much of the rest of the southeast Ukraine.

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March 3, 2022 Columnists
Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends the launching ceremony of the new Euro+ combined oil refining unit at the Gazprom Neft Moscow Refinery, via video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia July 23, 2020.
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