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Analysis by experts:

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
• PAIS
• CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online - limit to latest year for 90 results on a search for Ukraine
• Policy File Index

International newspapers:

• Global Newsstream

Documents & Websites

How We Got Here:

• The Breach: Ukraine's Territorial Integrity and the Budapest Memorandum - The Wilson Center
• How Ukraine's Orange Revolution Shaped Twenty First Century Geopolitics - The Atlantic Council
• Orange Revolution (Film) - International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
• The Significance of Euromaidan for Ukraine and Europe - The Wilson Center
• The chronology summarized -- NPR

YouTube

Analysis:

•    Intelligence Squared - with Owen Matthews and Radek Sikorski
•    Oxford Union - with Christopher Steele, on Russia & Ukraine 3/11/22
•    Columbia University - panel discussion 3/9/22;   discussion begins 3 1/2 minutes in
•    Belfer Center, Harvard - panel discussion 3/14
•    Centre for European Reform - panel discussion  3/15
•    Diem 25 -  3/23  a very leftist group; discussion includes views from Serbia
•   DemocracyNow - 3/25 argument for negotiated neutrality
•   DW -   3/29  interview with journalist Andrei Soldatov
•   France 24 -  4/6  panel debate, how the UN should confront war crimes
•   Financial Post -  4/7  interview with Bill Browder, details on sanctions and financial strategy
•   Forces News  - 4/7   information on weaponry from a strategic point of view
•   Telegraph podcast - 4/7  extensive updates and analysis
•   Council on Foreign Relations panel - 4/14  independent think tank; what will happen next? Military analysis.
•   Watson Institute, Brown - 5/17  address and Q & A with Thomas Graham from Yale U
•  John Mearsheimer - 6/18  a 'realist' interpretation
•   Al Jazeera - 6/16  how could the war be ended? 

News:

• DW News - Russian strike on base near Lviv
• BBC - Asian countries economic reaction to Russia
• France 24 - Russians living in Ukraine
• New York Times - Maps tracking the invasion
• al-Jazeera - claims of bioweapons dismissed
• al-Jazeera - Russia uses hypersonic missiles
• France 24 - 3/21  extended exchange of views among journalists on the ground
• NBC News - 3/22  NATO exercises in Norway (previously scheduled)
• Sky News - 3/24 Stoltenberg address after NATO summit (begins 12.30 minutes in)
• MSNBC - 3/25 Russian battleground communications intercepted
• DemocracyNow - 3/25 argument for negotiated neutrality
• 7News Australia - 3/26  update from the front
• DW - 3/26 Serbia's position
• Sky News -  4/7  interview with Dmitry Peskov: what the Kremlin says
• India Today - 4/9  [Recall that India has generally not voted to sanction or censure Russia in the last weeks]
• WNT (World News Today) -  4/16 cargo plane delivering arms to Ukraine shot down 
• Crux - 4/22  specifics on one of the heavy weapons France is sending to Ukraine
• India Today - 4/23 compilation update; India's neutral stance gives their reporters some access behind Russian lines
• Democracy Now --  5/3  risks of escalation
• TLDR News -- 5/4  current geography of the war (Note the way this video seems to have been produced.)
• US Daily Brief - 6/20 Russian warship enters Danish territorial waters on 6/17
• DW  - 6/22 update & examination of the situations in Crimea and Kaliningrad
• For Colby's subscribed access to the Times and the Wall Street Journal, see this guide to set up your account.

• Recent developments in the Russia-Ukraine conflict / Cory Welt, Congressional Research Service

• Continuation of the national emergency with respect to Ukraine, 2021 - continued by President Biden; US GPO

• From "the Ukraine" to Ukraine : a contemporary history of 1991-2021

St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv; Creative Commons License by Rbrechko

Scythian gold necklace 4th c BCE

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