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Articles by Olya Korbut
Trump’s ‘Peace’ - Sacrificing Millions to Putin’s Butchers
After sidestepping questions about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for much of the 2024 US presidential campaign, former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance have breathed new life into talk of negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow to settle the war — with many of these discussions involving Ukraine surrendering territory to Russia. One crucial element is left out — the fate of the millions of Ukrainians who would be surrendered with that land.
Russia’s October Surprise? Don’t Be Silly
There’s a thin line between advanced propaganda and pure silliness. The tone and the content have to match. When they don’t, even the Kremlin’s veteran lie spinners can make fools of themselves. Meet Tara Reade, a 60-year-old former Joe Biden assistant who defected to Russia saying her life was at risk. She’d made allegations of sexual misconduct by the President in the 1990s. These were contested by Biden staffers.
Blockade-Busting Ukraine Proves the Experts Wrong
The one thing the world knew in July was that Russia’s termination of the UN-brokered Black Sea grain deal would see Ukrainian exports almost completely end, and leave its ports idle. There was only one great naval power on the Black Sea. Everyone knew that. How on earth could Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his ministers, despite their fighting rhetoric, change that reality? Wrong. Badly wrong. Ships are once again carrying Ukrainian food exports and at some scale.
The Black Sea Peace Dividend - Gas, Gas, Gas
Russia’s destructive intent is manifest in every policy it pursues. On the cities bordering the Black Sea and its Azov Sea extension, whole urban areas like Mariupol have been reduced to rubble, leaving perhaps 20,000 dead. On its waters, the grain vessels that once carried Ukraine’s agricultural wealth to the world’s poor are largely unable to operate for fear of attack.
BRICS - The Coalition of the Globally Grumpy
The new BRICS members — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, Ethiopia, and Argentina — were presented as significant additions by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who claimed the expansion signaled a crucial step toward “a new multipolar world order,” the phrase he uses to imagine a world freed from the shackles of US dominance. While the bloc “stands opposed to no one,” he argued during the August meeting, the expansion is clearly imagined as a challenge to the collective West. And yet.
Learn why the North American grain market should care about the collapse of the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
After pulling itself from the Black Sea Grain Initiative on July 17, Russia is continuing its attack on Ukrainian's grain infrastructure. According to reports, on Monday it destroyed three grain warehouses in a drone attack on the Danube River, targeting a vital export route. Last week, Russia struck Ukraine's ports in Odesa, which is the heart of Ukraine's agricultural export region, several days in a row.
Russia’s Weapon of Mass Starvation
July 19, 2023 Russia's withdrawal from a deal to allow Ukrainian grain exports risks exacerbating famines and maritime danger in the Black Sea. Russia’s withdrawal from a UN-and Turkish-brokered deal to allow the export of grain from Ukrainian ports again threatens the food security of millions living in drought- and famine-affected regions around the world. “Russia has been slowly killing the grain initiative, from one extension to another,” explained Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba.
Russia Busts G-7 Oil Sanctions
May 19, 2023 The imagined benefits of Western measures aimed at Russia are just that. Sanctions busting on oil exports is rife and needs to be stopped as a matter of urgency. Imagine we are observing a Russian port on the Black Sea, and let’s say the town is Novorossiysk. At its pier, tankers are being loaded with oil products at a price matching the cap set by the European Union (EU) and the G-7 group of advanced industrial economies.
Russia Busts G7 Oil Sanctions
May 19, 2023 The imagined benefits of Western measures aimed at Russia are just that. Sanctions busting on oil exports is rife and needs to be stopped as a matter of urgency. Imagine we are observing a Russian port on the Black Sea, and let’s say the town is Novorossiysk. At its pier, tankers are being loaded with oil products at a price matching the cap set by the European Union (EU) and the G7 group of advanced industrial economies.
Russia’s Lake: How to Liberate the Black Sea
April 25, 2023 NATO behaves as though it has few options to counter Russia’s imperious behavior in the Black Sea. This can change, with a bit of imagination.
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