Stumbling towards conflict with Russia?
When Rip Van Winkle fell into a deep sleep and awoke 20 years later, he found that his world had changed almost beyond recognition. But, were today’s Rip Van Winkle to sleep for no more than a year and a half, he would awake to a radically different Russian-American relationship—and not just different, but dangerous to the point where...
Soros Seeks to Expand War in Ukraine…Why?
Hacked emails show billionaire George Soros is fighting to save the US-backed president of Ukraine. He promised President Poroshenko to call up US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and ask for some more money for Ukraine. He is demanding that the US start supplying weapons to Ukraine to attack separatists in the east. Tune in to the Liberty Report for...
Does Putin Have to Escalate to Survive?
Every week, a selection of leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world. Joerg Forbrig – Transatlantic fellow for Central and Eastern Europe at the German Marshall Fund of the United States Systemically, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s...
EU Brokers Macedonian Political Deal, New MH17 Crash Evidence Revealed
Plus, work begins on Gazprom’s gas pipeline to China, and Lukashenka says Russia’s troubles are battering the Belarusian economy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
ODIHR Director Link and Ukraine Human Rights Commissioner Lutkovska sign agreement to enhance co-operation in human dimension
WARSAW, 3 June 2015 – Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Valeria Lutkovska, Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner, signed an agreement in Warsaw today for greater co-operation between ODIHR and Lutkovska’s office in a broad range of activities in Ukraine,...
Moldova Turns to Hire Education
Can new, improved vocational training rectify a dearth of skilled workers and a distorted labor market? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
A total decline of Donbas economy will threaten Ukraine’s security
Economic Research Consultant at the Razumkov Centre Volodymyr Sidenko told the BBC news agency about the economic collapse in Donbas and how it threatens Ukraine’s security. There has been a major degradation process, due to which the economy of the region was thrown several decades back. Many of the enterprises that have stopped will not...
Separatists have to understand that a new attack in Donbas will cost them a lot
In his column for the “Novoe Vremia” Oleksiy Melnyk, Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre, assesses the prospects and threats of de-escalation of the conflict in Donbas. The prospects of escalation or de-escalation of the conflict in Donbas should be assessed given the terrorists building...
Ukraine’s defence industry got a chance to enter Western markets
In the comment to the magazine Focus, Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk explained why the termination of military and technical cooperation with Russia can do good to Ukraine’s defence industry. Putin’s statement only proves his unwillingness to name the real...
What interests Russia in the Arctic
In his column for the “Novoe Vremia” Oleksiy Melnyk, Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre, writes about a possible conflict of national interests over the Arctic. …read more Source: Razumkov...
