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International
Operation Spiderweb was tactically brilliant, but the strategic fall-out remains uncertain
Freddy Gray
The Balkan country is useful for so many Russian agencies and individuals
Mark Galeotti
The war is not going as well as Putin would like to suggest, and he faces real pressures if it continues
John Lough
He still demands huge chunks of Ukraine and other dramatic concessions
Charles Lipson
Russia
The pawns on Putin’s chessboard are the 350,000 mainly Russian-speaking residents of the region
Svitlana Morenets