Trade and geopolitics: should the EU engage with the Eurasian Economic Union?
Can a closer cooperation between the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union bring peace to eastern Ukraine and restore EU-Russia relations? …read more Source: European Policy...
Attending an international round table “Conflict resolution – what Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and the EU should do”
On 11-13 March 2015, in Germany (Berlin), an international round table Conflict Resolution – What Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and the EU Should Do was held by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. The round table was attended by representatives of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, experts of the institutions of the European Union, and delegations of...
Explaining China’s Position on the Crimea Referendum
China recognizes the complex historical dimensions of the situation in Crimea and remains committed to a diplomatic solution that considers the interests of all parties involved. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Voices During the Maidan as Captured by Public Radio Ukraine
A lot has been written about the Euromaidan in Ukraine. Many have written about their memories. Oral histories are being recorded. But what were people saying, at the time, as events were unfolding? …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 31 March 2015
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. The SMM, based on its monitoring – which was restricted by third parties and by security considerations* – observed that fighting continued in areas around the Donetsk airport and...
Apocalypse a bit later: The meaning of Putin’s nuclear threats
The words that Russian President Vladimir Putin chose for describing the nuclear angle of the special operation for seizing and annexing Crimea in March 2014, might appear so odd that it is well-nigh impossible to make sense of them. “Yes, we were ready,” he said to the question about whether the option of putting strategic forces on high alert...
Kaliningrad: ‘Just Another Russian Region’
How European is this formerly German, possibly nuclearized piece of Russia wedged in among its Western neigbors? From CEPI. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Post-Easter Attack Predicted in Ukraine, More Deaths on Bulgarian Border
Plus, hackers release text messages from Russia’s Internet watchdog and Belgium wants an Albanian pol in a murder case. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
It’s not in the interest of Poroshenko and Kolomoyskiy to fight with each other
Fifty-two-year-old oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskiy didn’t take the news lying down. Within hours of the parliamentary vote on March 19 he mobilized a group of armed men who barricaded themselves in UkrTransNafta’s offices in Kyiv, the Deutsche Welle reports. “After that compromise between the politicians the threat is minimized to almost...
Putin’s dogs
Co-director of foreign affairs and international security programmes at the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk contributed to the Kyiv Post newspaper about the role of Putin’s dogs in Russian foreign policy. …read more Source: Razumkov...
