Russia’s Sovereign Globalization: Rise, Fall and Future
Project: Russia and Eurasia Programme, Promise and Realism in Relations With Russia, Russia’s Domestic Politics06 January 2016The failure of Russia’s experiment with sovereign globalization encourages pessimism about Russia’s prospects but optimism about globalization. Russian flag. Photo: bopav/iStock by Getty Images. Author:...
Kyiv Blames Blackout on Russian Hackers
Ukraine’s cyber-security response team confirms deliberate attack on the power grid caused last month’s power outage. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Where Obama won’t be going on his global farewell tour
As President Obama begins his final year in office, polls show that public confidence in his national security leadership has collapsed: Only 18 percent of Americans say the United States is winning the war on terror, and even a 59 percent majority of Democrats are dissatisfied with how Obama is prosecuting the fight against Islamic...
Ukraine-EU Trade Deal Angers Russia
A free trade agreement between Ukraine and the EU came into effect on Friday, angering Russia in the process. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
New year, new leaf? What to watch in Turkey in 2016
The Turkey of a decade ago was at a very different crossroads. That Turkey had met the European Union’s “Copenhagen political criteria,” a set of democracy- and governance-related requirements that EU candidates had to meet, and had started accession negotiations. That Turkey’s economy was just beginning to take off. For the first...
Dutch to Assess Alleged Russian Troop Role in MH17 Crash
A citizens’ journalist group passes on information to the Dutch prosecutors which allegedly identifies Russian soldiers responsible for bringing down the airliner. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
New publication: Quo vadis, Ukraine? Is there a chance for success? | mBank–CASE Seminar Proceedings No. 139
Language English If I were to say just one thing about Ukraine, I think I would have to stress it is the most underperforming country of all the countries I know.” said Ivan Mikloš, co-founder and president of think-tank MESA10 and a member of the International Advisory Board of National Reform Council of Ukraine, and a keynote speaker...
Lilia Ukrainets: There are countries that have managed to establish efficient economy under conditions of armed conflict, but it should be recognized that such cases are rather exceptions from the rule
Free Voice Information Analysis Center offers our readers an interview with the candidate of economic sciences, assistant professor of international economic relations of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Ukrainets Lilia Anatoliivna about current trends in the development of Ukraine’s economy and related international economic...
Russia and Ukraine, Joined at the Hip No More
By Leonid Bershidsky Russia and Ukraine have spent most of their post-Soviet history as Siamese twins, but for the last two years they’ve been undergoing political and economic separation surgery. It will probably be more or less complete in 2016, and though both twins are in for a grim period, the weaker one, Ukraine, has […] …read...
Future War of the Worlds.
Media focused now the war on “Islamic state”, but the global military giants are preparing their armies in a conflict incomparably larger scale. 01.01.2016 BY Andrzej Talaga The current clash with IS, previous Western operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and the Russian invasion in Georgia and in Ukraine – it is only an anticipation of what the...
