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This report describes a new approach to stimulating cooperative action toward the Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.brookings.edu/research/17-rooms-a-new-approach-to-spurring-action-for-the-sustainable-development-goals/

Grigory Ioffe Three legal trials in Minsk attracted maximum attention during the middle of February. One of them has already ended with a verdict—two-year prison...

Yuri Lapaiev Late last year, on December 16, the Ukrainian parliament took up a new draft bill (#4504) on territorial defense (Rada.gov.ua, December 16, 2020). https://jamestown.org/program/reforming-territorial-defense-in-ukraine-danger-in-delay/

Paul Goble Given the Vladimir Putin regime’s past reliance on oil exports, it is perhaps no surprise that Moscow has been casting about for some...

Rahim Rahimov Iran emerged as a potential loser from the Russia-brokered trilateral truce accords that ended last autumn’s 44-day Second Karabakh War between Armenia and...

Jakub Bornio The latest People’s Republic of China–Central and Eastern European Countries (China-CEEC) summit took place online, on February 9, after a one-year break caused...

Vladimir Socor The latest session of the Minsk Contact Group (see EDM, February 18) lifted a curtain’s corner on several disputed issues that had not...

Pavel K. Baev The disastrous visit to Moscow of the European Union’s top diplomat, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, on...

The Malaysian government should urgently investigate the Immigration Department’s return of 1,086 Myanmar nationals to Myanmar in defiance of a court order, Human Rights Watch said...