The Fatherland leaving the coalition will not mean early parliamentary election
Deputy Director, Director of Political and Legal Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Yuriy Yakymenko explained to the Glavred website how possible is the Fatherland’s leaving the coalition and how dangerous it may be for the operation of parliament. Now the parliamentary coalition is going through difficult times. The number of its members...
For ordinary Ukrainians, amendments to the Constitution are less important than rising prices and rates
Deputy Director, Director of Political and Legal Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Yuriy Yakymenko told the Fraza website about recent political events in Ukraine. The events of 31 August 2015, when, during the vote on the amendments to the Constitution, blood was shed outside the Verkhovna Rada, were deliberately prepared. When we recall the...
Is the transition to a professional army possible in Ukraine?
In his column on the website Novoe Vremia, Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Prgrammes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk wrote about a possibility of the transition to a professional army in Ukraine. …read more Source: Razumkov...
Stay Classy, Russia
Russia’s United Nations delegation walked out of a speech by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, citing the speech’s “aggression.” Read that again, to savor it. …read more Source:...
South Ossetian Leader Seeks Union With Russia
Georgian breakaway territory has cut off nearly all links with Tbilisi. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Yanukovych Sues Kyiv for Rights Breaches
Ukraine courts are biased and influenced by senior officials, former president claims. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Obama’s back-footed response to Putin’s embrace of Syria
Confusion reigns inside the Obama administration regarding Russia’s military campaign to bolster President Bashar Assad’s endangered Syrian regime. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intervention clearly caught President Obama flat-footed, and so far there is no sign Mr. Obama knows how to respond. His public defensiveness...
Latvia Defends Planned Fence Along Border with Russia
Latvia’s government has announced it would build a new nigh-tech fence along the border with Russia, but took pains to say it was not aimed at harming the already strained relations between the countries. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
CIS Leaders Agree to Extend Military Cooperation
Leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have signed 17 agreements on military cooperation. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Lohvinau: Publisher Who Defies the Lukashenka Regime
Svetlana Alexievich may won international acclaim as the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, but at home only a single publisher has braved government hurdles to print the laureate’s literature. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
