The laws on Donbas status give good prospects for an extension to the cease-fire
Ukraine’s pro-Russian separatists questioned further peace talks with the government, citing violations of cease-fire terms, while lawmakers in Kiev approved special status for the country’s two easternmost regions, the Bloomberg reports. “The adoption of the laws doesn’t guarantee a peaceful resolution of the conflict but it...
The visit of the delegation of the Japanese Institute for International Policy Studies
On 17 September, the Razumkov Centre hosted a meeting with the representatives of the Institute for International Policy Studies (one of the leading think tanks in Japan), Senior Research Fellow Futoshi Matsumoto and Research Fellow Junichi Fukuda. The meeting was attended by Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes...
The Razumkov Centre participated in the preparation of the Government Action Plan Recovery of Ukraine
On 3 September 2014, at the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Government Action Plan Recovery of Ukraine was presented. The document presented by Prime Minister of Ukraine A. Yatseniuk is the result of the joint work of experts from non-governmental research organisations, public scientific institutions, and representatives of...
The meeting with Head of Russia–Newly Independent States Centre of the French Institute of International Relations
On 17 September 2014, the Razumkov Centre hosted a meeting with the representative of the French Institute of International Relations, Head of Russia-Newly Independent States Centre Ms Tatiana Kastoueva-Jean. The French Institute of International Relations (IFRI, http://www.ifri.org) is a leading French think tank which specialises in the issues...
The Razumkov Centre participated in the Riga Conference 2014
On 12-13 September, Valeriya Klymenko, Expert of the Razumkov Centre, and James Sherr, Research Fellow of the Razumkov Centre and Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme of Chatham House, attended the Riga Conference 2014 – the ninth annual high-level meeting of local and global security policy-makers and experts in Riga,...
The special status of Donbas apparently was a part of the agreements in Minsk
The bills adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on the special status of some raions in Donbas and amnesty for those participating in the events in the CTO area on 16 September 2014 contradict both the Constitution of Ukraine and other legislation. Moreover, representatives of the so-called LPR and DNR currently have no intentions to comply with them but...
Russian “peacekeeping forces” symbol was found on the vehicles in Donbass
The Guardian has found more evidence of Russian military hardware operating inside Ukraine, spotting an armoured vehicle marked with the symbol of the Russian army’s “peacekeeping forces”. Their vehicle was marked in three places with a blue circle and the yellow Cyrillic letters MC – the Russian abbreviation for “peacekeeping forces”, the...
The political fate of Poroshenko will depend on price of the peace in Donbass
The war in eastern Ukraine has quietened, for now. Its disparate factions have as much reason to keep fighting as to put away their guns. But a ceasefire signed on September 5th in Minsk is so far mostly holding, the Economist writes. Deputy director general and director of political and legal programmes at the Razumkov Centre Yuriy Yakymenko...
Russia’s Baltic War
Having failed to check Russia’s desire to reconstitute its empire in Ukraine, the world now looks on as the Russian campaign in the Baltics picks up steam. The latest news is that of an Estonian agent apparently kidnapped from Estonia and charged with espionage in Russia. The aggregate total of the number of people who believe...
The wall at the Russian border won’t help guarantee the security of Ukraine
The length of the Ukrainian-Russian border is now 2,295km. Given the Russian aggression, Ukraine decided to build engineering structures with concrete fortifications, barbed wire, watchtowers, barriers with motion sensors and infrared cameras along the entire Russian border. The project is called „The Wall“, and it has already been approved in...
