Reducing Risks and Cutting Costs: The Art of Confrontation Management

... settlement, then for stopping the five-year war. Given the current unclear trajectory of US-Russian relations, it looks very unlikely that this bilateral track could lead to even limited progress in Donbass anytime soon. The time has come to reactivate the Normandy Format process at its top political level. The pause in the Minsk process has been too long, and there is a growing danger that we will lose the only legitimate mechanism of managing the crisis in and around Ukraine. Andrey Kortunov: Europe’s ...