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Ukraine Has a Constitution

As diplomats meet in Abu Dhabi, a question gets lost in the talk of trading land. Who can decide where Ukraine’s borders run?

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Odd Inge Teige
Nov 10

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Olga Lautman, a nonresident senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington, had a blunt answer for Americans and anyone else pressing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to give up land. “There is this thing called a constitution.”

On November 10, the United States, Ukraine and Russia ope…

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