The Juggernaut Stumbles
The Grim Fate of Russia’s Energy Economy …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30, 27 June 2016
This report is for media and the general public. In Donetsk region the SMM observed more ceasefire violations compared to 26 and 27 June respectively, particularly in the southern Donetsk region. In Luhansk region the SMM recorded no ceasefire violations. It conducted crater analysis in Horlivka, Troitske and Popasna. The Mission noted weapons in...
Belarus Experiments With New Kind of Money: Coins
Banknotes to shed four zeroes in leader Lukashenka’s latest bid to slow inflation. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
From Opportunity to Crisis: NATO’s Eastern Perception Problem
With its rapid eastward expansion following the Soviet collapse, NATO lost an unprecedented opportunity for east-west cooperation. Since then, its rhetoric and further expansion have only entrenched its negative perception in Russia, which the Ukraine crisis revealed to be problem a serious danger to European stability. In future, NATO must make...
NATO’s Article V: Iron Clad Commitment or Paper Tiger?
NATO’s ironclad Article V is continually referred to when a threat of any kind is made to a member. Yet, Russia’s hybrid warfare in Ukraine, coupled with the article’s ambiguity, demonstrate that we must question Article V’s reliability and longevity; it is worth considering other, more proactive forms of collective...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30, 26 June 2016
This report is for media and the general public In Kominternove the SMM found the bodies of two young boys killed by power lines most probably downed by shelling. In Donetsk region the SMM observed more ceasefire violations on each 25 and 26 June compared to 24 June. In Luhansk region the SMM recorded no ceasefire violations on 25 June, and fewer...
How NATO Underestimated Russia
NATO redefined itself by expanding its membership in three waves, but underestimated Russia’s future capabilities. These waves of enlargment provoked Russia, which responded through a first step of testing the Alliance, in 2008, through the Georgian war. Putin continued with the decision to test at a fully-length pace, NATO’s...
Post-Brexit, Poland Heads Calls for Smaller EU
British voters’ decision to leave could widen the gap between the union’s wealthy west and struggling east. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Moldova Seizes Uranium, Detains Suspected Smugglers
Security services aided by FBI have stopped at least four attempts to smuggle radioactive materials out of the country. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Britain Exits the European Union: Will the EU Survive and Should America Care If It Does?
Doug Bandow The United Kingdom will exit the European Union. Nigel Farage of the United Kingdom Independence Party had declared: “Win or lose this battle, we will win this war. We will get our country back.” Average voters won both the battle and war against most of their nation’s political, business, cultural, and media elites. The shock...
