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Natalia Koryagina, Russia. After teaching herself to cultivate organic vegetables in her kitchen garden, Natalia Koryagina, a local geography teacher, has won national recognition for her work promoting new agricultural techniques in kitchen gardens, and providing training to local women on the use of these techniques. Accessed via Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Sanctions may sting if Russia invades Ukraine, despite Moscow’s efforts at sanction-proofing

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Russian President Vladmir Putin. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. Credit: www.kremlin.ru, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported.

Biden threatened harsh sanctions should Russia invade Ukraine. Putin may not be deterred.

By David Cortright | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Mike Pompeo meets with Heiko Mass, the German foreign minister

Why Europe needs to push back to save the Iran nuclear deal

By Azadeh Zamirirad, Oliver Meier, Sascha Lohmann | Nuclear Risk

Sanctioning SWIFT

Not very SWIFT

By Aaron Arnold | Analysis, Special Topics

Easing sanctions on Iran might someday be necessary–but it won’t be easy

By Navid Hassibi, Tom Sauer | Uncategorized