A Military ‘Pivot to Asia’
As China reclaims land in the South China Sea, the US sends in spy planes to buzz the construction. China warns the US to leave them alone. US, with bases all over the South China Sea area, objects to what it views as Chinese military activity in the region. Is this Obama’s “Pivot to Asia”? Or a diversion from the failed wars...
Chrystia Freeland on Ukraine’s struggle for independence
“What is happening in Ukraine is a tremendous threat to Putin’s Russia precisely because of the kinship that Russians feel with Ukraine,” says Chrystia Freeland in this podcast. Freeland, a Member of Parliament in Canada and also a journalist and author, talks about her own family’s connection to Ukraine, why the Russian propaganda...
Transnistria expects no good from Ukraine
Ukraine abolished legislation on the transit of Russian military men, that are temporarily deployed in Moldova, through the Ukrainian territory, as well as supply support for the peacekeepers in Transnistria. …read more Source:...
Anders Åslund, leading expert on Ukrainian and Russian political economy joins the Atlantic Council
Anders Åslund, one of the world’s most renowned experts on Ukrainian and Russian political economy and chairman of the CASE Advisory Council, has been appointed as a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Dr. Åslund is a leading specialist on East European economies, and has served as an economic adviser to several European governments....
Cameron warns EU renegotiation will not be a smooth process as senior EU politicians back EU reform
Cameron warns EU renegotiation will not be a smooth process as senior EU politicians back EU reformArriving at the informal EU leaders’ summit in Riga yesterday, Prime Minister David Cameron said that “there will be ups and downs [during the EU renegotiation]. You will hear one day that ‘this is possible’; the next day something is...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator and Ukraine Parliament Committee on Judicial Policy and Justice agree to co-operate on legislation in justice and elections
Kyiv, 21 May 2015 – OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine Vaidotas Verba and Ruslan Kniazevych on behalf of Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Judicial Policy and Justice, signed a memorandum of co-operation on 21 May 2015. The document provides for the development and joint implementation of projects that would help parliamentarians draft...
Russia Prepares for Possible New Summer Military Campaign in Eastern Ukraine
Summer is the best time for major offensive military action in the Donbas region (Donetsk and Luhansk provinces) of eastern Ukraine. In the spring and autumn, long periods of bad weather turn unpaved roads and plains into a mud quagmire (Rasputitsa), seriously hampering troop maneuverability and logistic support. In 2014, intensive summer...
Spot Report by OSCE Observer Mission: A twenty sixth Russian convoy of 51 vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned back through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point
SUMMARY On 21 May 2015 at 07:10hrs (Moscow time), a Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 51 vehicles were checked by the Russian border guard and customs services. All the vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation by 15:00hrs on 21 May. *** DETAIL Leaving the Russian Federation On 21 May 2015...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 19:30 (Kyiv time), 20 May 2015
This report is for the media and the general public. The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by third parties and security consideration*. The SMM observed continuing ceasefire violations at and around Donetsk airport. The SMM observed a...
Preface for Digital Eastern Europe
During the Euromaidan protest movement-as in the first years of the Arab Spring-it was the power of social media that galvanized civil society. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
