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DPhil/PhD Intl Relations @UniofOxford Assoc Fellow @RUSI_org Author "Russia in Africa" & "Putin's War on Ukraine" @HurstPublishers Email samuel.ramani @gmail .com

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PERSONAL ANNOUNCEMENT: I have launched my own consulting company Pangea Geopolitical Risk Ltd It is headquartered in London and a website plus more details of its service offerings will be available in early 2024
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Vladimir Putin has killed Swedish neutrality and German pacifism in a single weekend
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BREAKING: The EU says fighter jets will be arriving in Ukraine within the hour
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BREAKING: Kosovo asks the US for a permanent military base and requests NATO membership
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BREAKING: The EU says it wants to accept Ukraine as a member as soon as possible
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BREAKING: Israel accuses Russia of war crimes in Ukraine
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Norway has replaced Russia as Germany's largest gas supplier. A historic milestone.
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BREAKING: The U.S. will ask the UN General Assembly to expel Russia from the UN Human Rights Council
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BREAKING: Turkey detains a Russian cargo ship possessing grain stolen from Ukraine
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BREAKING: The Finnish parliament's defence committee recommends NATO membership
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BREAKING: Sweden confirms that it has U.S. security assurances if it applies for NATO membership
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BREAKING: Ukraine says it will not give up its EU membership bid as a compromise to Russia
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BREAKING: Poland says it wants Russia expelled from the G20 and that the US has responded positively to this proposal
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BREAKING: Ireland rejects a suspension of EU aid to Palestine
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BREAKING: Australia, which supplies Russia with 20% of its alumina, bans exports of alumina and bauxite to Russia
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Germany shuts down Russia in an argument about Nazism
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BREAKING: Finland and Sweden sign a historic NATO accession protocol
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Everyone is predicting war between Russia and Ukraine except Russia and Ukraine
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BREAKING: Japan imposes individual sanctions on Russia and bans the issuance of Russian bonds
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Russia says it is quitting the UN Human Rights Council immediately. No Russia, you were expelled.
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BREAKING: Canada becomes the first country to sign off on Finland and Sweden's accession to NATO
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BREAKING: Ireland's Senate passes a resolution recognizing Russia's war crimes in Ukraine as a genocide
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BREAKING: The EU will impose travel bans and asset freezes on all members of the Russian State Duma
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BREAKING: Britain is pressuring the G7 to expel Russia from SWIFT
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BREAKING: The U.S. and Britain have reportedly provided Sweden with security guarantees during its NATO application process
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BREAKING: Finland to send lethal arms to Ukraine
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BREAKING: Spain joins Poland in calling Russia’s actions in Ukraine a possible genocide
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BREAKING: The Netherlands will send heavy weaponry, including armoured vehicles to Ukraine
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BREAKING: Britain warns Vladimir Putin could face war crimes charges for his actions in Ukraine
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BREAKING: Poland has reportedly frozen the Russian embassy in Warsaw’s accounts for “terrorism financing”
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Zelensky tells the UN Security Council to expel Russia or dissolve itself. The kind of blunt language that the UNSC should hear more often.
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BREAKING: Germany confirms it will stop buying Russian oil by the end of 2022
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BREAKING: Lithuania announces plans to train Ukraine to use Western weapons
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BREAKING: Germany's Defence Minister says the EU must discuss banning Russian gas in light of the Bucha Massacre
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BREAKING: Poland endorses an express path for Ukraine's European Union membership
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When Vladimir Putin was about to meet with Queen Elizabeth II in 2003, the Home Secretary's dog barked loudly The Queen quipped: 'Dogs have interesting instincts, don’t they?"
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BREAKING: Germany announces that it will restart coal-fired power plants in order to conserve natural gas
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BREAKING: Boris Johnson confirms that Britain will come to Sweden's assistance if it is attacked
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BREAKING: Slovakia starts deploying the Patriot air defence system
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BREAKING: The Dutch Parliament votes in support of the creation of a special tribunal in The Hague to prosecute Russian military and political leaders for invading Ukraine
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BREAKING: The U.S. says it will not object to Slovakia's potential transfer of MiG jets to Ukraine
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BREAKING: Poland proposes an EU ban on all trade with Russia
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BREAKING: Japan freezes the assets of Vladimir Putin and Russia’s central bank
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BREAKING: The US and G7 freeze the Russian Central Bank's gold reserves. This is 20% of the central bank's total assets, between $100 to $140 billion.
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BREAKING: Sweden joins Denmark and Germany by pledging to increase defence spending to 2% of GDP
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BREAKING: Ukraine says that the Russian military has suspended new unit arrivals in Ukraine
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BREAKING: India reportedly cancels plans to buy 48 Mi-17 V5 helicopters from Russia
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BREAKING: The Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and the Czech Republic expel Russian intelligence agents posing as diplomats
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BREAKING: Finland and Sweden are reportedly going to start their NATO membership applications in May
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BREAKING: The Czech Republic accuses Putin of war crimes and urges tougher sanctions to stop him
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BREAKING: The UN Human Rights Office says that civilians in Bucha were "directly targeted and directly killed"
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Finland has terminated a contract with Russia’s Rosatom to construct a third nuclear power plant The deal is worth $7.8 billion
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France clarified its conditions for victory in Ukraine A full restoration of Ukrainian territory to 2014 borders including Crimea. So no off-ramp for Vladimir Putin.
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BREAKING: Siemens announces its complete withdrawal from Russia
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The former President of Mongolia satirically strikes back at Putin’s historical justifications for invading Ukraine
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BREAKING: Norway announces that it will send long-range rocket artillery to Ukraine
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BREAKING: The EU pledges to double military aid to Ukraine
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A Ukrainian flag has been reinstated on Snake Island. A symbolically powerful blow to Russia in the Black Sea
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BREAKING: Denmark says it would very strongly support Finland's NATO accession
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BREAKING: Germany will deliver the first of 4 IRIS-T SLM air defence systems to Ukraine "within days"
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BREAKING: The Netherlands will supply some of its most powerful howitzers to Ukraine
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Zelensky says that he won't accept Russian ultimatums and that Ukraine is ready to fight Russia for 10 years
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BREAKING: Hungary offers its territory as an alternative land route for Ukrainian grain exports
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BREAKING: Saudi Arabia announces $400 million in aid to Ukraine
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BREAKING: Turkey closes its airspace for Russian military and civilian flights to Syria
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BREAKING: France follows Germany’s lead by expelling 35 Russian diplomats
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BREAKING: Britain will support and provide assistance to Poland if it supplies fighter jets to Ukraine
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BREAKING: Russia admits to using a thermobaric bomb in Ukraine
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BREAKING: Denmark summons Russia's ambassador after a Russian spy plane violates its airspace
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BREAKING: Canada says it plans to allow sanctioned assets to be used to compensate victims. This means forfeited Russian assets will help Ukrainians.
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Russia says that it is relocating 500 Ukrainian children each day from Kherson to Russian territory. A harrowing admission of war crimes.
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BREAKING: Volodymyr Zelensky urges Russia to be internationally recognized as a terrorist state
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BREAKING: Ukraine's special forces unit Khort claims that it has killed the Deputy Chief of Staff of Wagner Group
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BREAKING: Poland proposes the creation of an international commission to investigate genocide in Ukraine
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BREAKING: There are reports that a Russian missile intended for Ukraine crossed into Poland killing 2 people
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BREAKING: Ukraine says it expects to be granted EU candidate status in June
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BREAKING: France's Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian says Russia is only pretending to negotiate with Ukraine
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The Czech Republic has submitted its candidacy to replace Russia on the UN Human Rights Council
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BREAKING: Switzerland agrees to adopt the full package of EU sanctions on Russia
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Vladimir Putin has killed Swedish, Swiss and Finnish neutrality in one day
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BREAKING: Greece will ask the International Criminal Court to investigate war crimes in Mariupol
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BREAKING: The ICJ rules that Ukraine did not commit genocide in Donbas and urges Russia to immediately end the war
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Joe Biden just accused Vladimir Putin of committing genocide in Ukraine
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BREAKING: Sweden will send an additional 5,000 anti tank weapons to Ukraine
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BREAKING: Germany arrests defence company chief for selling electronic components for Russian drones
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BREAKING: The Kyiv police have discovered 900 civilian bodies. Almost all of them were shot dead.
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BREAKING: Canada suspends exports of 28 services vital for Russia's oil, gas and chemical sectors
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Off the radar of most, Saudi Arabia just beheaded 81 people in 1 day
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BREAKING: The EU will reportedly sanction two of Vladimir Putin's daughters
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BREAKING: France backs a U.S. proposal for a maximum oil price
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BREAKING: Norway donates 2,000 M72 anti-tank weapons to Ukraine
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BREAKING: Ukraine strikes a Wagner Group base in Luhansk
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BREAKING: Norway pledges 1 billion euros in additional support for Ukraine
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BREAKING: Poland says it has supplied tanks to Ukraine
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BREAKING: The Netherlands pledges nearly 2 billion euros in military support for Ukraine
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BREAKING: France announces that it has stopped receiving gas from Russian pipelines since June 15
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BREAKING: The U.S. confirms that it has sent 100 Switchblade drones to Ukraine
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BREAKING: Germany plans to release more than a billion euros in military aid to Ukraine
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BREAKING: Slovakia is reportedly ready to supply MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine
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BREAKING: Switzerland formally adopts EU sanctions on Russia
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BREAKING: The Pentagon says that Ukraine has "received additional fighter aircraft" from countries other than the U.S. and "additional aircraft parts" that will allow Ukraine to get more planes in the air
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