The Cost of Crimea: Overlooking the Blow to Business
Russia’s annexation of Crimea – and response to EU sanctions – will have major implications for energy companies seeking to invest there …read more Source: Royal United Services...
Ukraine: Rising Civilian Toll in Luhansk
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Unlawful government and insurgent attacks in and around Luhansk are contributing to rising civilian casualties. According to a morgue doctor in Luhansk, explosive weapons have killed more than 300 civilians in the city since May. (Berlin) – Unlawful government and insurgent attacks in and around Luhansk...
Russian military exercises will escalate crisis in eastern Ukraine
The conflict in eastern Ukraine has escalated to its most critical level yet, with Russia giving signs that experts say show it is closer than ever before to invading and waging a full-scale war against its Slavic neighbor, – the Mashable website writes. Oleksiy Melnyk, co-director for foreign relations and international security programs at the...
Ukraine: Rebel Forces Detain, Torture Civilians
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Russian-backed insurgent forces in eastern Ukraine are arbitrarily detaining civilians and subjecting them to torture, degrading treatment, and forced labor. (Berlin) – Russian-backed insurgent forces in eastern Ukraine are arbitrarily detaining civilians and subjecting them to torture, degrading treatment, and...
Without Russian support, the anti-Kyiv insurgency would lose
The war is reaching a crunch point. Pushing forward with artillery and bombing raids, Ukrainian forces are recapturing territory and closing in on rebel forces in the east, – the Economist writes. The mood in Kyiv, as Co-director of the Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes at the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk sums it up, is to...
How Germany Should Address the Threat of a Large-Scale Conventional Attack
The 2011 German Defence Policy Guidelines state that “a direct territorial threat to Germany involving conventional military means remains an unlikely event”. Though experts may still disagree on the likelihood of the threat, given recent events in Ukraine, there should be consensus about necessity to consider it as a real rather than a...
And Then They Marched Off to War: Azerbaijan and Armenia on the Precipice
For over twenty years, Armenia has occupied huge swathes of Azerbaijan, in violation of written and customary international law. For over twenty years, Armenia’s war crimes and atrocities, its occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding provinces, its ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijani refugees — all have stagnated, festering and all but...
Ukraine: Insurgents Disrupt Medical Services
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email (Berlin) – Insurgent forces in eastern Ukraine have threatened medical staff, stolen and destroyed medical equipment and hospital furniture, and compromised the ability of civilian patients to receive treatment, Human Rights Watch said today.read more …read more Source: Human Rights...
Expert Q&A: What is the Best Strategy to Decrease EU Energy Dependence on Russia?
The Ukraine crisis highlighted the problems associated with EU dependence on Russian gas, and greater EU energy independence is now a high priority for decision-makers. In our second “Expert Q&A,” we posed this question to 3 energy and EU policy experts: What is the most effective way to decrease EU dependence on Russian energy?...
The Verkhovna Rada has to pass amendments to the budget proposed by the Government
The Verkhovna Rada has to pass amendments to the budget. This opinion was expressed by Director of Economic Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Vasyl Yurchyshyn, informs the newspaper Vysokyi Zamok. “The government bill can be criticised but the situation offers no alternative. We have negative economic dynamics,” emphasised the expert....
