Russia’s Role as an Arms Exporter: The Strategic and Economic Importance of Arms Exports for Russia
Project: Russia and Eurasia Programme, Russia’s Domestic Politics, Russian Foreign Policy20 March 2017 Dr Richard Connolly Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme Cecilie SendstadResearch Manager, Cost Analysis Research Programme, Department of Analysis, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) Russian arms producers must adapt...
The Dilemmas of Ukraine’s Economic Policy
The vast majority of emerging Europe countries started their transition process into market economies at the beginning of the 1990s. Ukraine became an independent state in August 1991, yet the country’s social and economic development still lags behind its Central European peers. Emerging Europe asked some leading economists how to speed up...
The democratic Russia we lost
The democratic Russia we lostIt would be erroneous to think that appetite for democracy in Russia will inevitably come in the course of time – it will come only if its citizens feel that their voices do matter. This is the lesson modern Russia should learn from the historic phenomenon of democracies in medieval Novgorod and PskovIt would be...
Cries From Syria
The world watched, and watched, and watched. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine Legalizes Blockade on Rebels, Sanctions Russian Banks
France says blockade will heighten tensions, following a series of provocative moves by rebels and Moscow. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Cut Loose in Europe
Thousands of Moldovans could find themselves stranded after losing Romanian citizenship in a bureaucratic snafu. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Blank Spots on the Holocaust Map
Attitudes toward the Jewish past are changing in Ukraine and Russia, but old ways of thought cling on. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Change may be afoot in Belarus
“Russia has no intention of occupying Belarus” declared the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, in February 2017, three days after Russia set up controls along the length of its border with the only country with which it has a union treaty. This statement was added to the voices of alarm of national (and some international) experts who...
Ukraine Sanctions Russian State-Owned Banks
March 16, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Russian Orthodox Welcome St. Patrick
Eastern church adopts Irish saint, other Western martyrs, and mystics. Could this be the end of the Great Schism? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
