Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)

Commodities are part of the US-mediated ceasefire negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. With global trade in turmoil and resource supply chains increasingly matters of national security, the EU must ask itself how it relates to these new realities and Russia’s role as an energy power.

With the full-scale invasion, relations with the EU have suddenly become very concrete for Ukrainians - in Ukraine and abroad. What does war, displacement and Euroscepticism in Ukraine mean for the future of Ukrainian and European politics?

Survey data reveal that Ukrainians who have suffered personal losses and severe hardship in the war with Russia are more likely to support military solutions, while those who have experienced less intense disruptions are more open to diplomatic pathways to returning Ukraine’s occupied territories.

Five years ago, hundreds of thousands of Belarusians protested against the rigged elections. How are these events viewed today? In his book ‘Rasender Stillstand’ [‘Racing to a Standstill’], Ingo Petz explains what motivated the protesters and how, with Putin’s backing, the regime retained its grip on power.

Three years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, knowledge about Eastern Europe still mainly follows prewar patterns. It is time to reconsider approaches to studying the region by rethinking power structures and creating new connections that can enable institutional transformation.

Religion is another battlefield in Russia’s war against Ukraine. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) has come under intense state pressure due to its perceived ties to Russia. A new ZOiS Report based on interviews with ordinary UOC members offers a more nuanced picture of the ‘Russian’ church in Ukraine.

On 24 Feburary 2022, Russia began the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Our online dossier gathers relevant information in the form of videos, podcasts, publications and assessments of our experts in the media.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a war of aggression that we condemn in the strongest possible terms. Against this background, we have decided to suspend all institutional cooperations between ZOiS and Russian state institutions. However, in the spirit of academic freedom, the academic partnerships our researchers have established with individual researchers in Russia will continue, as far as this is possible.