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...
Digging Up Ukraine’s Deep State
Ukraine’s civil society and young generation are determined to make the ongoing reforms to the country’s state institutions irreversible. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Ukraine’s New Constitution: Devolution of Powers and the Rule of Law
04NovInvitation OnlyResearch EventUkraine’s New Constitution: Devolution of Powers and the Rule of Law4 Nov 2015 – 11:00 to 12:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London Russia and Eurasia Programme, Ukraine ForumParticipantsNataliia Agafonova, Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Head, Sub-Committee on...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 16 October 2015
This report is for the media and general public. The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”, including the Addendum. Its monitoring was restricted by the parties and security considerations*. The SMM received written declarations related to the withdrawal of mortars in Luhansk...
