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Leiden and Cambridge help create a model course on EU law for Ukraine07 March 2025Whilst resisting abhorrent Russian aggression, Ukraine has made a clear choice for a future in Europe. With an association agreement already in place,...
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‘War with Russia more likely now Trump has spurned Europe’21 February 2025Europe’s security suddenly looks uncertain now President Trump has started negotiations with Russia. What does this mean for the Netherlands? What do ...
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Bringing aid to Ukraine: ‘Now others were also benefitting from my studies’Person of the Year nominee 23 January 2025Russian Studies master’s student Fien Lurvink was nominated as Leidsch Dagblad’s Person of the Year for her charity work as chair of the Keep Them War...
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How gas conflicts between Ukraine and Russia were the precursor to war19 November 2024The war between Ukraine and Russia is playing out not just on the battlefield but also on the geopolitical playing field of gas. Conflicts at the star...
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Zelensky addresses students: 'Live your own life, but do so together with others'12 September 2023A standing ovation. A wave and a smile from the president. A final selfie. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed students in the Netherland...
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Ukrainian student: ‘The dream of studying abroad kept me going’10 August 2023Ukrainian Yana Rudenko lived through the Russian occupation of Bucha in March 2022 and the following year came to Leiden to study for a Master’s in Pu...
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Funding for project on open-source intelligence activists and Russia's war against Ukraine27 July 2023Damien van Puyvelde has received funding (over 47.000 euro) from a new Research Council pilot for his study 'Open-source research and the war in Ukrai...
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The EU’s Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: International and European Perspectives13 July 2023Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the European Union (EU) and its Member States have adopted wide-ranging legal and political measu...
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Retirement is not an option for ‘an old warhorse’ like Osinga04 July 2023He has had to accept early retirement due to his military profession, or ‘FLO’ (Functioneel Leeftijdsontslag) as it is more commonly referred to withi...
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Wagner mutiny: social media a source of information for intelligence services27 June 2023Many people were using social media to follow last weekend’s march on Moscow by the Wagner mercenaries. And they weren’t the only ones: intelligence s...
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Language during war: the changing position of Russian in Ukraine06 June 2023The impact of war extends beyond destroyed buildings and torn families. In bilingual Ukraine, the ongoing war with Russia is a major driver for increa...
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Treating military matters as military science - a lecture on Russian military concepts from 1853 to the present day12 May 2023Recently, Engin Yüksel gave a lecture on Russian military concepts from 1853 to the present day and his observations on the Russo-Ukrainian war at the...
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Call for Papers: The EU’s Reponse to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: International and European Perspectives Conference30 March 2023This conference is organised by the European Society for International Law Interest Group ‘EU as a Global Actor’, supported by the University of Leide...
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Alumnus Jonathan works with Ukrainian refugees: ‘They still have a smile on their face’24 February 2023When alumnus Jonathan Katzman started his master's programme in Russian and Eurasian Studies, he didn't foresee how useful those skills would be in th...
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A year of war against Ukraine: What now?16 February 2023After a year of war against Ukraine, professors André Gerrits, Antoaneta Dimitrova and Frans Osinga look back at Russian aggression and Western unity ...