WASHINGTON, May 23 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on May 22, 2026, by non-resident senior fellow Alexander Kolyandr: * * * The British and US Sanctions That Quietly Aren't US and UK sanctions relief aimed at easing domestic consumer pressures also transfer billions into Putin's war chest, at Ukraine's expense. * On May 19, the United Kingdom did two things at once. It legislated, for the first time in binding form, a ban on imports of refined petr  more

WASHINGTON, May 23 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on May 22, 2026, by Emil Avdaliani, research fellow at the Turan Research Center and a professor of international relations at the European University in Tbilisi, Georgia: * * * Russian Influence Drains Away in the South Caucasus Armenia is building closer relations with the EU, underlining Russia's diminishing influence in the South Caucasus. * For decades, Moscow's power in the South Caucasus res  more

EVANSTON, Illinois, May 22 (TNSjou) -- Northwestern University posted the following news release: * * * Megalibraries in pole position for autonomous discovery over self-driving labs High-speed materials platform could generate massive data to fuel AI-driven discovery * Megalibrary platform rapidly discovers promising new materials * Platform marks a shift from trial-and-error materials discovery toward intentional design * Team used the system to identify a new piezoelectric material and   more