In the near future for Ukraine the risk of nuclear blackmail by Russia is low
Nuclear power currently accounts for about 50 percent of Ukraine’s energy balance, and the country has the eighth-largest nuclear capacity in the world. Until recently, almost all nuclear fuel was supplied by Russia’s TVEL Company, a subsidiary of the state-owned Rosatom Corporation, the Southeast European Times newspaper writes. “In...
Nemtsov Note Hints at Moscow’s Role in Ukraine, Anti-Vaccine Movement Spreads in Region
Plus, Ukrainian pilot Savchenko begins eating again to save her life, and a Croatian general faces a new trial for crimes against Serb civilians. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Officials to Discuss Next Steps in Ukraine Peace Deal
Senior Russian, Ukrainian, German and French officials will meet in Berlin on Friday to discuss … …read more Source: American Security Council...
The Verkhovna Rada Equalized the Conditions for State and Private Gas Production Companies with Negative Result for Them
Leading expert of Energy programmes at the Razumkov Centre Viktor Logatskiy claims that the concept of hydrocarbons royalty determination in Ukraine should be reviewed. …read more Source: Razumkov...
Doomsday in Ukraine? Think Again
In the short term, Ukraine is on the verge of economic and, perhaps, political collapse. Yet in the longer term, the real question is whether the emergence of a coherent Ukrainian national identity creates a solid consensus for reform of the state and a sustained Western trajectory. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The parliamentary elections in Estonia
2015-03-04Joanna Hyndle-HusseinThe victory of the ruling Estonian Reform Party proves that the situation in Ukraine has turned this party into Estonians’ guarantor of state stability. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Finishing What Yanukovych Started
Has wartime turned Ukrainians and their media into well-meaning but misguided censors? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The end of the Russian energy weapon (that arguably was never there)
The crisis in Ukraine once again revived the fierce debate about Europe’s dependence on Russian energy resources. Similar to 2006 and 2009, when physical supply disruptions of natural gas took place, this crisis too will spur European integration. Arguably, though unintended, this makes Russian President Putin one of the most explicit...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office expresses condolences after mining accident in eastern Ukraine
Belgrade, 5 March 2015 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić today expressed his deepest sympathy over the loss of life in a mining accident at the Zasyadko coal mine in eastern Ukraine. „No effort should be spared at helping those affected by this tragedy, and I trust we shall all join efforts in this...
Swedish Parliament, leading think-tank to host OSCE PA Helsinki +40 seminar next week
COPENHAGEN, 5 March 2015 – COPENHAGEN, 5 March 2015 – The Swedish Parliament and one of the country’s leading think-tanks, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), will host the next leg of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Helsinki +40 Project in Stockholm on 11 March. Experts, policy-makers, ambassadors and OSCE...
