Lecture for students of the Swedish Defence University
On June 9, 2016, Oleksiy Melnyk, Co-Director, Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes, met with the group of students of the Swedish Defence University. The title of his presentation was “Armed Forces in the Antiterrorist Operation”. The legal framework and political constrains of military forces deployment, political constrains...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30, 8 June 2016
This report is for media and the general public. An SMM national staff member who had been held in Donetsk city was released. The SMM observed more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region compared to the previous day. Luhansk region remained calm with no ceasefire violations recorded. The Mission continued to monitor the withdrawal of heavy...
Ukraine, Russia and the EU: Breaking the deadlock in the Minsk process
Ukraine, Russia and the EU: Breaking the deadlock in the Minsk processHrant KostanyanStefan Meister09 June 2016 …read more Source: Centre for European Policy...
Pavlensky says he will not pay fine after his unexpected release
A Moscow court on June 8 rather unexpectedly released Pyotr Pavlensky from custody, after finding him guilty and fining him for damaging what was referred to as a ‘site of cultural heritage’, namely a door to the FSB building on Lubyanka Square …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Rehearsing for World War III
As I write this, US troops are building a bridge across Poland’s Vistula river, and conducting a nighttime helicopter assault to secure the eastern part of the country against a Russian assault.Has World War III started? Well, not quite yet, although it’s not for want of trying.This is Operation “Anakonda 16.” Thirty-one thousand...
Foreign Policy Audit: Ukraine-France
On June 14, the Institute of World Policy will present a discussion paper “Foreign Policy Audit: Ukraine-France”. …read more Source: Institute of World...
Frenchman Plotted Attacks at Euro 2016, Kyiv Says
Ukraine arrested man with big weapons cache, but French prosecutor says he was likely just a gunrunner. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Initial Situation Before Conducting Security Sector Reform in the Ukraine
Maksym Bugriy, a research fellow of foreign relations and international security programmes at the Razumkov Centre, co-authored the article on security sector reforms in Ukraine. This article appeared in Security Sector Reform: Global Case Studies, ed. Robert Ondrejcsak, 2016. …read more Source: Razumkov...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30, 5 June 2016
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM observed more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region both on 4 and 5 June as compared to 3 June, and observed a similarly high number of ceasefire violations in Luhansk region on the night of 3 June – compared to the previous night and fewer during the remainder of the reporting period –...
Poland Asks: Does the EU Matter for Anything?
As has been true for almost a decade now, the European Union has seen better days. With the British seriously considering “Brexit” — a British exit from the union — and the various PIIGS dramas submerged but always lurking beneath the surface, the economy in malaise, and the European Central Bank torn between independence and the biggest players...
