Bursting the Bubble

Dmitriy Miryan

Dmitriy Miryan

About Dmitriy

Born in Ukraine and raised in Germany, Dmitriy has found the discipline of international relations to be his raison d’être. Given this background, his academic research and interests include, first and foremost, the international implications of the ongoing crisis in and around Ukraine. In particular, Russia’s foreign and security policy, as well as the European security environment and NATO. His expertise also includes energy security and the European Neighbourhood Policy’s Eastern Partnership.

Dmitriy is currently pursuing his M.A. in Political Science at the Free University of Berlin. He has previously gained practical experience with the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation both in Latvia and Ukraine.

Feel free to contact him on Twitter via @DmitriyMiryan in either English, German, Russian or Ukrainian.

Articles by Dmitriy:

Taming the Bear: How EU Sanctions fail against Russia

2 June 2017

Skepticism towards the efficacy of sanctions is wide-spread, and in fact most of the literature to be found on the topic is deeply pessimistic. Thus, three years into the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and after the European Union and allies imposed sanctions on Moscow, it is hardly surprising that those measures did not lead […]

Europe’s Hybrid Adversary: The European Dimension of the Battle for Aleppo

31 October 2016

After the latest Syrian ceasefire deal had been violated through a reckless airstrike on a UN-convoy which headed into the encircled Aleppo, more than 560 people were killed (according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights). London and Washington called for Russia and its Syrian ally Assad to face war crime investigations, accusing them of […]