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Ukraine is building a system to combat Russia’s shadow grain fleet — the network of ships moving wheat and other crops stolen from occupied Ukrainian territories —…
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A Ukrainian project wants you to 3D-print a waterer for thirsty city birds
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The air conditioner outside your window drips a few liters of clean water onto the pavement every hot day. A Ukrainian project wants you to give that water to a sparrow…
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Russia just got its Crimea looter back — and he’s not even pretending to lay low
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Russian Hermitage archaeologist Alexander Butyagin announced his plan to resume illegal excavations near occupied Kerch this summer, telling Russian state media outlet Vesti on…
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Russia’s state-run doping program racks up 302 WADA sanctions — weightlifters and runners caught the most
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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) closed its eight-year hunt of Russia’s state-run doping program with 291 Russian athletes sanctioned across 22 sports, the agency
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Mindichgate widens: new tapes force an impossible choice on Ukraine’s missile maker
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Russian oil refineries have been burning for months. Most of those strikes come from a single Ukrainian company, Fire Point. Leaked transcripts published on 29 April allege…
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The Protection of Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna under International Humanitarian Law – EJIL: Talk!
Viktoriia Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist whose reporting focused on crime, human rights and Russia’s actions in occupied Ukraine, died in Russian captivity. She was a freelance journalist, working for various independent news outlets such as Ukrainska Pravda, as well as the Ukrainian…
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Central Bank Sanctions Return to the CJEU – EJIL: Talk!
A Primer on the Russian Central Bank’s Legal Challenge to the Permanent Freezing of its Assets
On March 3, 2026, the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) announced that it has recently filed an action for annulment under Article 263 TFEU challenging Council Regulation (EU) 2025/2600 before the General…
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Two Weeks in Review: 26 January—6 February 2026 – EJIL: Talk!
The last two weeks have taken us from headlines to bylines and beyond. Front-page legal questions on USA-Greenland and Russia-Ukraine continue to occupy commentators. While others draw our attention to the lesser thumbed back pages: from colonial-era agreements in contemporary arbitration, and…
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The Empire Strikes Back: Russia’s Procedural Offensive Before International Courts and Tribunals – EJIL: Talk!
In the immediate aftermath of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022, Ukraine and its allies turned to international adjudication with remarkable speed and intensity. This early legal mobilisation enabled Ukraine to seize the legal narrative surrounding the conflict, ‘using its smart-power…
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Another Setback for Ukraine? The ICJ Declares Russia’s Counter-Claims in the Ukraine v. Russia Genocide Case Admissible – EJIL: Talk!
On 5 December 2025, the ICJ delivered its order on the admissibility of Russia’s counter-claims in the Ukraine v. Russia genocide case. It is now the second decision by the Court in this unusual ‘reverse genocide case’ (see, on this blog, Raju, Milanovic, Weller) brought by Ukraine in…
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