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Current classifications of the Ukraine crisis by members of the Academy

On 24 February 2022, Russian forces launched a military attack on Ukraine. They invaded the country from several sides and advanced to the capital Kiev, among other places. Heavy fighting is currently taking place there, as in many other parts of the country. Russia is said to have taken control of a nuclear power plant used by civilians. Despite repeated negotiations, an end to the conflict is not in sight.

Professor Angelika Nußberger, a specialist in Eastern European law and a Slavic scholar from Cologne, has commented on the current situation in Ukraine in the press. The assessments of the director of the Academy for the Protection of European Human Rights and former vice-president of the European Court of Human Rights reflect the developments of the past decades and show the effects of the conflict on the architecture of peace in Europe and the world.

  • Commentary for F.A.Z. Objection: "Können wir noch an Europas Werte glauben?" from 24.2.2022 (Link) [in German]
  • Interview with Reinhardt Müller in a special episode of the "F.A.Z. Einspruch" podcast from 28.2.2022 (Link) [in German]
  • Interview with Wolfgang Janisch for the Süddeutsche Zeitung from 2.3.2022 (Link) [in German]
  • Interview in rbb-Kultur with Frank Meyer on the possible handling of the Putin case by the international judiciary from 5.3.2022 (Link, from minute 49:00) [in German]
  • Interview with Elif Şenel for WDR 5 "Neugier genügt" (Curiosity is enough) about the currently initiated or ongoing proceedings in Germany, at European and at international level because of the Russian attack on Ukraine, also taking into account enforcement difficulties of the international, consensus-based regulations from 10.3.2022 (Link) [in German]
  • F.A.Z. article "Von Gorbatschow zu Orwell" on developments in Russia since the 1980s of 10.3.2022 (Link) [in German]
  • Russian language interview with Roman Goncharenko for Deutsche Welle of 10.3.2022 (Link) [in Russian]
  • Podcast "Der Ukraine-Krieg und das Völkerrecht" with Jörg Klußmann of 24.04.2022 (Link) [in German]

Already on 24.2.2022 our postdoctoral researcher Dr. Julia Miklasová published a classification of Russia's recognition of the separatist territories in Ukraine on the Völkerrechtsblog. (Link)