Guiding Principles for a Sustainable U.S. Policy Toward Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia: Key Judgments From a Joint Task Force
The new U.S. administration should avoid fueling unrealistic expectations of a breakthrough and instead seek incremental progress on specific topics based on a set of guiding principles. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Illusions vs Reality: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Policy Toward Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia
The U.S.-Russian relationship is broken, and it cannot be repaired quickly or easily. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Navalny Vows to Fight Fraud Conviction
Putin’s only serious challenger may be forced to sit out next year’s presidential election. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Information war monitor for Central Europe: January 2017 Part 1
By Lóránt Győri, Patrik Szicherle, Veronika Víchová, Daniel Milo, Katarína Klingová. Photo: Flickr|Victor van Dijk, licensed by CC BY-NC 2.0At the beginning of 2017, stories about crimes, allegedly committed by migrants, dominated the media sphere in many countries, particularly those in Central Europe. Pro-Russian propaganda in the Czech...
Escalation in the Donbas: Ukraine Fights for the Status Quo
Instead of implementing the deeply unpopular Minsk Agreements, Kiev has used the conflict as leverage to secure external support from the West and promote solidarity and unity at home. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Kleptocracy Daily: February 8, 2017
News Russian anti-graft activist Alexey Navalny was convicted of embezzling timberin a retrial, barring him from running for president in 2018. (BBC) U.S. states’ plans to change beneficial ownership rules are “more of a political response than an effective response.” (Bloomberg) Faced with an unpredictable U.S. president, foreign countries...
2 IWP experts entered the Ukrainian-Polish Partnership Forum
Alyona Getmanchuk, a director of the IWP and Kateryna Zarembo, a deputy director of the IWP, entered the Ukrainian-Polish Partnership Forum. …read more Source: Institute of World...
New Romanov Empire Planned for Equatorial Island
Previous attempts from Putin foe to restore Russia’s last dynasty were dismal failures. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Bombing Claims Second Rebel Leader in Ukraine
Merkel urges Putin to pressure Ukrainian rebels as violence returns to the Donbas war zone. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Trump’s tango wih Putin
US-Russia relations have been on a downward spiral since the 2008 Georgian war with Russia. Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s acerbic remarks on the 2011 Russian parliamentary elections added to the downward momentum. The Ukraine crisis in 2014 saw relations plummet further. The current nadir was reached after WikiLeaks made public...
