Geir Flikke

Here’s to Norwegian scholarship!

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Could a European Army Result from a Ukraine Peace Deal? Journalist Alexander Golts looks at the prospects of a European peacekeeping operation in Ukraine without US participation, as Trump has indicated. That, Golts argues, would require colossal changes i...

Interesting read. www.russiapost.info/politics/pea...

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Not hard to understand that the Barents Observer moves.

When geopolitics is at your doorstep. Potential areas of knowledge transfer between Ukraine and Arctic Norway - The Arctic region is a focal point of ongoing geopolitical competition and complex security dynamics. The Norwegian Arctic and Ukraine share common challenges and opportunities. Maryna Rabinovych disc...

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Constructive and interesting blog from the HROMADA network.

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The Russian Federal Assembly as a Producer of Legal Restrictions, 2012–2021 This article discusses the role of the Russian Federal Assembly in legislating containment of the 2011/2012 domestic protests, the increased contentious politics that followed with the 2018 Navalny ca...

The legislation that has activated these waves of repression has a long genesis, starting from 2012/2013. The gradual dissemination of legal terms into ever larger bodies of legislation is analyzed here: online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...
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More than half of the sentences imposed on political prisoners over the past year resulted in actual imprisonment—55% (378 out of 679); in 2023 there were 50% of such convictions (339 out of 671). 4/

In 2024, 212 people became involved in politically motivated criminal cases for their words (statements, comments, publications and videos). 3/

1,407 people are imprisoned. Among them there are already 1,107 defendants in “anti-war” criminal cases (also among them are 62 journalists and bloggers). 2/

Новости — Meduza Ничего лишнего, только факты

The Russian HR organization Ovd-info has prepared an annual report on repression in the most gloomy year 2024. Repression affects 2,976 people, 620 of whom began to be persecuted in 2024 according to Meduza.io. 1/

Open Letter in Solidarity with Georgian Academics and Students - Ruta We, the undersigned academics, stand in solidarity with the professors, researchers, and students of Georgia in their ongoing fight for democracy, justice,

I support this open letter: ruta-association.org/news/open-le...

Meninger: Norges Ukraina-støtte må økes drastisk! Russlands angrepskrig har fått katastrofale følger for Ukraina og truer også Norge og Europa. Ukraina har kampvilje, men trenger nå flere våpen. Vi ber derfor Stortinget øke den norske militære bistan...

Jeg støtter dette oppropet: www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Ey...

Georgian ruling party defies protests, boycott to re-open parliament after disputed election Lawmakers from Georgia's ruling party opened the first session of parliament on Monday after last month's disputed election, defying protesters outside and a boycott by opposition parties who say the vote was illegitimate.

GD engages in domestic brinkmanship, convoking and setting a single-party parliament in a condition were electoral results are still broadly contested. Georgia’s dream might turn into a nightmare—GD steers towards confrontations, not civic accord. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Signed.

«The worst thing one can do with words, is to surrender to them. If language is to be instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought, one must let the meaning choose the word and not the other way around” .

George Orwell

From the artist’s cave. Work in progress.

Latest publication at CPCS —https://online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article/doi/10.1525/cpcs.2024.2116688/201963/The-Russian-Federal-Assembly-as-a-Producer-of

The Law on Military Mobilisation in Ukraine: Political Process and Public Perceptions - The Russian invasion of Ukraine has prompted the Zelensky executive to adopt a new Mobilisation Act. In this blog post, Geir Flikke (University of Oslo) and Aadne Aasland (OsloMet) analyse the process...

Publication at the HROMADA network blog; hromada.network/law-on-milit...

A graphic that shows the Iowa Caucus results as of 11:30 p.m. Eastern time. Donald Trump has 51 percent of the votes so far, Ron DeSantis has 21.3 percent, Nikki Haley has 19.1 percent and Vivek Ramaswamy has 7.7 percent. Trump has secured 19 delegates, DeSantis eight, Haley seven and Ramaswamy two. There is also a map that shows where votes have been reported so far. Election results are from The Associated Press.

Breaking News: Ron DeSantis is on track to finish a distant second in the Iowa caucuses, the first contest in the Republican presidential race, with Donald Trump’s share of the vote projected to top 50%. nyti.ms/3O50VxQ

Supreme Court faces pressure to decide if Trump is on the 2024 ballot If other states follow Colorado and Maine, there is a risk of a patchwork of decisions, with Trump appearing on ballots in some states but not others.

Now that a second state has decided to keep Donald Trump off the primary ballot for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, there is increased pressure on the Supreme Court to act — and to do so quickly.