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Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children has been called a war crime.
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Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children has been called a war crime.

27 June 2025
According to experts from Yale University and Ukrainian groups, Russia’s forced removal of Ukrainian children during the war constitutes the largest abduction of children in a conflict since World War II. Such a violation has been described as a clear war crime.
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From Russia, with love!
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From Russia, with love!

2 September 2015
The unexpected visit of Foreign Minister Lavrov to Baku has fueled speculation about “new” Russian initiatives in the Caucasus. In this op-ed Dennis Sammut argues that Moscow continues to wield both stick and carrot in its relations with Baku.
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Tragedy at Russian base in Siberia.
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Tragedy at Russian base in Siberia.

13 July 2015
23 servicemen died in the city of Omsk when a building housing servicemen at a training centre for Russian Airborne Forces collapsed on Sunday. 42 people were found under the rubble.
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Opinion - Armenia-EU relations: back to the drawing board. Dennis Sammut analyses relations between the EU and Armenia after the Riga Summit.
Opinion - Armenia-EU relations: back to the drawing board. Dennis Sammut analyses relations between the EU and Armenia after the Riga Summit.
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Opinion - Armenia-EU relations: back to the drawing board. Dennis Sammut analyses relations between the EU and Armenia after the Riga Summit.

25 May 2015
In the first, in a series of three articles for commonspace.eu Dennis Sammut analyses relations between the European Union and Armenia after the Riga Summit.
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Murder at the Kremlin Walls
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Murder at the Kremlin Walls

1 March 2015
Dennis Sammut comments on the assassination of Boris Nemtsov - "a political earthquake that potentially can shake the Russian political establishment from its foundations".
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