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“We believe that Ukraine can make it as a European, free, Western-minded country,” Cohen said. “So does Vladimir Putin. And he is scared of that because an alternative Slavic, Eastern Slavic, Orthodox, half-of-the-country Russian-speaking country next to Russia is something he cannot tolerate.”
by Oksana Lyachynska
Kyiv Post
November 21, 2014
Europe’s dependency on Russian gas, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, has become a major strategic liability for the West. This is especially true as the war in Eastern Ukraine has brought relations between Moscow and Brussels as well as many of the European capitals to new lows.
By Ariel Cohen
Journal of Energy Security
November 20, 2014
США грозят РФ новыми санкциями, если Москва признает голосование легитимным.
November 2, 2014
RBK Russian Business TV Channel
On Oct. 24, Vladimir Putin delivered his annual Valdai Club speech, providing a unique peek into his geopolitical soul.While the Russian president raised important questions concerning post-Cold War global security and the role of the United States in the world order, he did it with such an edge — if not vitriol — that all hopes of a positive reception in Washington were dashed.
By Ariel Cohen
The Washington Times
October 30, 2014
The United States has always had a very modest record of achievements in Armenia. This is a one-way street. The U.S. seeks a resolution to the Karabakh conflict, but Armenia is resisting. I cannot remember what Armenia has given to the States but it has received a lot from the States, including hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and the 902 that restricts the aid to Azerbaijan.
by Ashot Safaryan
ArmInfo News Agency
October 16, 2014
Ariel Cohen, director of the Center for Energy Natural Resources and Geopolitics at the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, said the situation “looks like a disaster for Ukraine, but more importantly, it looks like a disaster for the cause of nonproliferation.
The Washington Times
September 1, 2014
The messy business of post-imperial disintegration is not over. The eruption of Russian-Ukrainian hostilities is not the only case in point. The former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan are at it again, too. And there may be a connection between the two conflicts, experts say.
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
The National Interest
August 7, 2014
Escalation of violence between Armenia and Azerbaijan produces a serious threat to peace and stability in South Caucasus, Ariel Cohen, PhD, Principal, International Market Analysis Ltd, an energy and natural resources political risk company told Trend.He added that yet, unfortunately, the media is not reporting the story, just as it its coverage of the massive bloodshed in Syria and Iraq due to ISIS violence, has drastically declined.
AZERNEWS
August 2, 2014
Russia is being forced to pay back almost $52bn to former share holders of defunct oil group, Yukos.This, according to a court ruling by the Hague on Thursday.The decision, which comes almost ten years after the oil company went bankrupt, is being hailed as a victory for justice by market analysts.
August 1, 2014
RFI
A leading American energy and geopolitics expert and the Principal of International Market Analysis, a natural resources advisory company, Ariel Cohen spoke to Trend regarding several topical issues, including the U.S.-Azerbaijan relations, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, recent developments in Iraq and Iran's disputed nuclear program.
By Claude Salhani
Trend AZ
July 8, 2014
Vladimir Putin is the father of the most significant energy mix shift in Europe. Ukraine may be the straw that broke the back of the energy camel. As a result, Russia is about to lose a lot of revenue. Talk about the unintended consequences.
Even before Putin occupied the Crimea and supported separatist insurgency in Eastern Ukraine, the EU Commission began to seek ways to diminish the continent’s dependence on the Russian gas.
By Ariel Cohen
The Heritage Foundation
May 26, 2014
In the recent makeshift referenda in Donetsk and Luhansk unrecognized by the West, a small minority of eligible voters voted in favor of secession from Ukraine. Now, some Western politicians and analysts are wondering: If those people came out to vote for “independence,” aren’t we obligated to consider their opinion when pondering the future of Ukraine?
By Ariel Cohen
The Heritage Foundation
May 25, 2014
Mr. Timchenko’s rise to prominence on the crucial China file shows that the current sanctions against individuals are ineffective, and Russia can essentially ignore them in many circumstances, said Ariel Cohen, a Russia and energy expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
By Richard Blackwell
The Globe and Mail
May 22, 2014
Vladimir Putin is the father of the most significant energy mix shift in Europe. Ukraine may be the straw that broke the back of the energy camel.
As a result, Russia is about to lose a lot of revenue. Talk about the unintended consequences.
Even before Putin occupied the Crimea and supported separatist insurgency in Eastern Ukraine, the EU Commission began to seek ways to diminish the continent’s dependence on the Russian gas.
By Ariel Cohen
Wall Street Journal
May 21, 2014
In the recent makeshift referenda in Donetsk and Luhansk unrecognized by the West, a small minority of eligible voters voted in favor of secession from Ukraine. Now, some Western politicians and analysts are wondering: If those people came out to vote for "independence," aren’t we obligated to consider their opinion when pondering the future of Ukraine?
By Ariel Cohen
The Heritage Foundation
May 21, 2014
“This is a declaration of war by the Obama administration on the current governing Russian elite,” Ariel Cohen, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based research group, said by phone from New York. “There will be a lot of people potentially targeted.”
By Henry Meyer and Irina Reznik
Bloomberg
April 28, 2014
Vice President Joe Biden, who went to Ukraine on Monday for a two-day visit to express U.S. support for the government in Kyiv, has accused Russia of being behind the irregular armed forces who are taking over Eastern Ukraine. However, he did not offer much beyond $50 million in assistance to fight corruption.
By Ariel Cohen
Kyiv Post
April 24, 2014
Europe, which imports 40% of its natural gas for electricity and heat from Russia, could reduce its Russian imports by restarting mothballed nuclear reactors (eight out of 17 in Germany alone) and increasing its imports of liquid natural gas from Africa, the Persian Gulf and the USA, said Ariel Cohen, an analyst at the Heritage Foundation.
By Oren DorellU
SA TODAY
April 15, 2014
By Ariel Cohen for Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College (SSI) March 31, 2014
Insurgent activity in the Northern Caucasus region continues. For Ariel Cohen, preventing the area from slipping back into even greater instability will require Moscow to tackle corruption, cronyism, discrimination, and unemployment – all of which it is unwilling to do.
China's View of Ukraine On Sunday, March 16, 2014, Crimea voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence from Ukraine and unity with Russia. What are China's views on the crisis involving the Crimea, Ukraine and Russia? How do China's interests converge or diverge from Russia's.
Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC.
March 22,2014
Radio Television Hong Kong
During a private fundraiser, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton compared Putin's claims of protecting minorities as justification for invading Ukraine to similar actions by Hitler in the 1930s. Anderson discussed these remarks and Putin's strategies with author Masha Gessen and Ariel Cohen, who is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation who interviewed Putin several times.
CNN
March 5th, 2014
Last week, Russia declared war on Ukraine. On March 1, the Russian Parliament’s Upper House, the Council of the Federation, voted to authorize the use of force against its neighbor. Now Russia has invaded the Crimea, my birthplace, a beautiful peninsula offering a subtropical coastline that has been popular with visitors since the days of Anton Chekhov.
Today’s visitors are not so friendly.
By Ariel Cohen
National Review
March 5, 2014
Ariel Cohen of the Republican-leaning Heritage Foundation in Washington said Russia’s G-8 status “does matter” in conjunction with sanctions.“They crave legitimacy,” Cohen said of Russia. “They can destroy their attractiveness as a business-investment target, and they can pay tens of billions of dollars of capital that is fleeing Russia as we speak.”
By Margaret Talev
Businessweek
March 02, 2014
Ukrainians have succeeded in their struggle against a corrupt, incompetent president. For now. But for the revolution to be a success, Kyiv’s new leaders must make a strong effort to reform the economy, revitalize government institutions and protect the country’s sovereignty—not squabble over power and portfolios.
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
February 27, 2014
The National Interest
