ECFR’s World in 30 Minutes: Ukraine’s 25th anniversary of independence

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ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with experts Andrew Wilson, Fredrik Wesslau and Gustav Gressel, about rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine in the Donbass, the Minsk agreement, and whether European sanctions on Russia should be renewed. The podcast was recorded on 30 August 2016.

Bookshelf:

Enough said: What’s gone wrong with the language of politics by Mark Thompson

The decline of the West by Oswald Sprengler

Ukraine crisis: What it means for the West by Andrew Wilson

The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation by Andrew Wilson

Russia’s role in the grey zone

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