Sinikukka Saari
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Leading researcher @FIIA_fi. Formerly @EU_ISS @Ulkoministerio, @EUMMGeorgia; PhD @LSEIRDept. Passionate about ambitious, policy relevant research.
Helsinki, Suomi
Joined October 2009
Onko Ukrainan kohtalon hetket käynnissä? Haastattelussa @aunesluoma
@sinikukka ja @TyyneKarjalain Kuuntele #Politiikkaradio Yle Areenassa ja @yleradio1*ssa: https://t.co/03uL2DC2Th
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❗️❗️ Zelenskyy has published an address to the Ukrainian people. “We are now living through one of the most difficult moments in our history. Right now, Ukraine may face a very tough choice: either the loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner. Either a difficult
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Prime Minister Kobakhidze, The Georgian future is only for the Georgian people to decide. The same applies to every OSCE participating state. For people to be able to exercise this right, they need freedom of speech and free and fair elections with political alternatives to
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The war in Sudan is not a 'forgotten war' but a highly internationalised geopolitical battleground, reflecting peacebuilding failures and the impact of shifting global order, writes Katariina Mustasilta in the latest FIIA Briefing Paper.⤵️ https://t.co/UpeFXjlM8n
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Venäjän median tapa uutisoida Puolan tapahtumista on yhtenäinen ja lievästi sanoen omintakeinen, mikä viittaa ohjeistukseen ylhäältä. #Venäjä #Puola #Ukraina #Nato
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Puolaan tunkeutuneiden lennokkien alkuperä jää venäläisuutisissa joko täysin hämärän peittoon tai syylliseksi vihjaillaan Ukrainaa.
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”President Trump has helped end Mr. Putin’s isolation, both by welcoming him to U.S. soil for the first time in a decade and by clashing with leaders from Brazil, India and South Africa, pushing them closer to Mr. Putin.”
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Eurasian leaders eagerly met the Russian leader at a summit this week, as President Trump has helped ease his isolation over the war in Ukraine.
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After all the meetings in Moscow, Istanbul, Anchorage and Washington we get this. Remember the smiles and the red carpet in Alaska?
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Putin's reported rejection of a full ceasefire in Ukraine and the ongoing Russian offensives in Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts indicate that Putin intends to continue his war in Ukraine while negotiations are ongoing — a point that Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry
NEW: Various US officials indicated that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be willing to compromise on some war termination demands, but Putin's own statements and Russian official statements contradict these claims. ⬇️(1/3) It is unclear what Putin offered in his meeting
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The death toll from the Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight on Thursday, July 31, has risen to 26, including 3 children, after rescuers recovered 10 more bodies beneath the rubble, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs. Another 159 people were
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ETYK:n päätösasiakirjan allekirjoittaminen ei ollut päätös vaan alku ajatukselle, että turvallisuus- ja ihmisoikeudet kuuluvat kaikille. Uusia aloitteita ja ajatuksia tarvitaan, ja @FIIA_fi on vahvasti mukana tässä keskustelussa. Helsinki+50 oli hieno, uudenlainen tilaisuus!
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Eurooppalaiset johtajat ovat nyt laittaneet arvovaltansa peliin, jotta Ukraina-neuvotteluissa päästäisiin eteenpäin. Tavoite on ihailtava, mutta rakennelma on hutera. Putinilla on epäilemättä houkutus vetää mattoa Euroopan toimijuuden alta.
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“I will be waiting for Putin in Türkiye on Thursday. Personally,” Zelenskyy said in a statement late on Sunday.
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President Zelenskyy during a press-conference today ahead of the peace talks in London tomorrow: ◾️"As soon as we start talking about Crimea, about our sovereign territories, etc, we enter the format that Russia wants - prolonging the war." ◾️"Ukraine will not legally
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To be clear: Russia does not have the military offensive capacity to occupy the rest of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson without large reconstitution + revising tactics. This is no concession or gift when it’s military reality for the Russians. Reality as long as AFU resourced to hold.
NEW: Vladimir Putin has told the US Russia could give up the remainder of its territorial claims in Ukraine. But Kyiv's allies worry it's bait to lure Trump into accepting Russia’s other demands – like recognizing Crimea – and forcing them on Kyiv. https://t.co/APz7PuFVIK
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📣Vielä 2 päivää aikaa hakea UPIn harjoittelupaikkoihin! Etsimme 🔹tradenomiharjoittelijaa ja 🔹kahta harjoittelijaa tutkimusavustajan tehtäviin. Lue lisää hakuilmoituksista ja hae meille!⤵️ https://t.co/YTAbqDdkOD
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#FIIAForum2025 lähestyy! Syvennymme ensi viikon torstaina Suomen ulko- ja turvallisuuspolitiikan haasteisiin ja suuntaan. Meillä on kunnia kuulla tilaisuuden keynote-puheenvuoro presidentti Sauli Niinistöltä. Lue lisää ja ilmoittaudu livestriimiin ➡️ https://t.co/jxLoECvqMm
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Too often multilateral cooperation, democratic values & respect for international law are strangely seen as an alternative to military defence. If you value it, defend it. Thanks for a great collab @TyyneKarjalain !
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In this @FIIA_fi piece, we argue that cooperative security is not dead but it has has shrunk in scope to an internal European order. To maintain it, European states need to actively defend it, even militarily.
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European cooperative security order has been challenged by Russia’s revisionism – and more recently by the alienation and even hostility of the United States.
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The "Russian art of the deal" is selling Russian demands as Russian concessions to the Americans, and then demand sanctions relief on top. The demand here is that Ukraine is not allowed to attack Russian warships anymore and Russia gets to inspect Ukrainian ships.
So Russia demands major sanctions relief. In return for... what exactly? Doesn't make a lot of sense. Art of the deal I guess.
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