Dennis Sammut comments on the assassination of Boris Nemtsov - "a political earthquake that potentially can shake the Russian political establishment from its foundations".
In this op-ed Dennis Sammut reflects on two events that occurred last week that highlighted the opposite ends of the situation around the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
In this op-ed for commonspace.eu Dennis Sammut argues that the first phase of the Ukraine crisis is now over. In the second phase the west must buy time for Ukraine. It must also re-invent its relations with Russia.
Far from altruistic reasons have kept Russia, France and the US working together in the Minsk Process format for two decades. Can this process survive the Ukraine crisis?
In this op-ed Dennis Sammut reflects on lessons to be learnt from how the conflict over South Ossetia spiralled into a short but bitter war between Georgia and Russia in 2008.