Kadri Liik

Dec 20, 2024 | ecfr.eu | Kadri Liik

Policy Brief 20 December 2024 Russia’s leaders often claim that the US is a declining power and that a post-American world is growing ever-nearer. They assert that its European allies are bellicose and mercurial, but also fragmented and powerless. Where Moscow greeted Trump’s first election in 2016 as the emergence of a partner in forging that new order, such hopes have since dissolved. Russia’s leaders now largely see him merely as a harbinger of that American decline. These factors will...

Aug 9, 2024 | ecfr.eu | Camille Grand |Gustav C. Gressel |Mark Leonard |Kadri Liik

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Dec 21, 2023 | ecfr.eu | Kadri Liik

Russia’s war on Ukraine has locked Moscow and the West in a contest for global support. Both would like the rest of the world to side with them against the other. But they are both likely to ultimately realise that the rest of the world is not swayed by narratives, but by pragmatic engagement. This type of transactional relationship comes easier to Moscow than it does to the West, as evidenced by Russia’s past outreach efforts.

Dec 1, 2023 | ecfr.eu | Kadri Liik |Jeremy Shapiro

Podcast Mark Leonard's World in 30 minutes1 December 2023Listen on SoundCloudApple PodcastsSpotifyRSSThe West perceives Russians as either indifferent or supportive of the war being waged on their doorstep. But a sharp decrease in on-the-ground reporting since February 2022 means that the country has become poorly understood.

Sep 28, 2023 | raamoprusland.nl | Kadri Liik

Europeans should allow their countries to be hosts for free debate among the Russian emigrés of the 21st century. But they should resist the temptation to view the exiles as channels of influence to reform Russia, argues Kadri Liik of the European Council on Foreign Relations.  Photo from twitter @4freerussia_org by Kadri Liik Life as a refugee is always difficult. And being a Russian exile in Europe is difficult in its own way. You are blamed for the war you opposed.