Advice on ‘advice and consent’
Editor’s note: This article appears in National Review’s December 31st print edition. Access the original content here.Despite the Democratic party’s losses in November’s elections, President Obama has audaciously begun ignoring constitutional restraints in order to impose his policy views. This is true not only on...
NATO Does Not Want Ukraine to Apply for Membership
Now that Ukraine has voted to drop its non-aligned status, we are hearing an official story from Russia that “NATO has pushed Ukraine to do this.” Endlessly repeated, it is exactly opposite to the truth. Moscow’s policies over the last twelve months have changed popular opinion in Ukraine. From 1991 until 2013 every poll...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time) 26 December
This report is for media and the general public. SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the work of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). The SMM monitored the simultaneous release of hostages/prisoners in Yasynuvata (18km North-East of Donetsk city). On 24 December,...
Minsk talks must resume to rapidly advance peace efforts, Swiss Chair says
Bern, December 26, 2014 – Swiss Foreign Minister and OSCE-Chairperson-in-Office, Didier Burkhalter, expressed his expectation that the meeting between the Trilateral Contact Group (consisting of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the OSCE Chairmanship) and representatives of certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk, scheduled for today in Minsk,...
Belarus and Kazakhstan: Ukraine Is not our Enemy
The Ukraine crisis has had an increasingly negative effect on Russia’s relations with Belarus and Kazakhstan, its closest allies and partners in the Customs Union and Eurasian Union. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The Ukraine Crisis’s Central Asian Echoes
After the initial shock the Ukrainian crisis brought, Central Asian states have gradually come to the conclusion that they should continue dealing with Russia. Still, none of these states are prepared to be totally controlled by Russia. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
A visit to Berlin and Brandenburg
From 23 to 28 November 2014, Expert of Economic Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Kateryna Markevych participated in the programme of the visit of the representatives of economic institutions of Ukraine to Berlin and Brandenburg Development of Small and Medium Enterprises as an Engine of Economic Competition, which was supported by the Friedrich...
Roundtable “Middle class in Ukraine: life values, readiness to the association (unification), and promoting democratic standards”
On 16 December 2014, the Razumkov Centre, with the financial support of the Government of Canada, provided through the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD), held the roundtable Middle Class in Ukraine: Life Values, Readiness to the Association (Unification), and Promoting Democratic Standards. A special issue of the...
The Razumkov Centre attended the Global Think Tank Summit in Geneva
On 4-7 December 2014, the Global Think Tank Summit was held in Geneva, which was organized by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Programme of the University of Pennsylvania (TTCSP) and Geneva Graduate Institute, supported by the UN Office at Geneva, the Government of Switzerland and other partners. The Summit was attended by representatives of...
The Razumkov Centre Newsletter №10
This issue contains articles and interviews of the Razumkov Centre’s experts, dealing with most topical issues in Ukraine’s current affairs. In particular – perspectives of the newly elected Parliament of Ukraine, the situation in the Ukrainian economy and energy sector. Read the Razumkov Centre Newsletter №10 (18 December 2014)...
