Interpreting the Bomb: Ownership and Deterrence in Ukraine’s Nuclear Discourse
Image: The SS-18 ICBM, produced in Soviet Ukraine, on display at the Strategic Missile Forces Museum in Pervomaysk. Photo by Polina Sinovets. …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Defense Innovation and the Future of Transatlantic Strategic Superiority: A British Perspective
Photo Credit: Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock The Defense Innovation Initiative — also referred to as the Third Offset Strategy — was announced in November 2014, aiming to “identify and invest in innovative ways to sustain and advance U.S. military dominance for the 21st century.” To address the erosion of U.S. technological superiority and...
Book Review: Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia
Sarah Lain reviews Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia, by Samuel Charap and Timothy J Colton. …read more Source: Royal United Services...
Russia’s Media Monitor Moves To Block Websites Of ’Undesirable’ Organizations
Russia’s Roskomnadzor media regulatory agency has begun blocking access to websites of organizations deemed “undesirable” by the Justice Ministry under a 2015 law aimed at restricting the activity of organizations the Kremlin accuses of fomenting political dissent. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Poland & Ukraine Should Join Outsourcing Forces
Poland and Ukraine, the two largest countries in Emerging Europe, should jointly promote themselves as an outsourcing destination. “They should create an outsourcing hub and complement one another in their offer,” Iwona Chojnowska-Haponik, director of the Foreign Investment Department at the Polish Investment and Trade Agency (PAIH), during the...
Georgia and Russia: How to Oppose Moscow’s Aggression
With limited resources, Georgia has few options when it comes to defending itself against Russian aggression. The answer for Tbilisi has been a strategy of ‘Total Defence’.Download the article (PDF)Western policymakers, governments and experts have been taking substantial steps to counter the danger posed by Russia’s new...
Watch List Findings: Dec. 9, 2017
What follows are the preliminary findings for issues identified in the daily Watch Lists this week. We are only sending findings that we regard as significant or potentially significant to keep this list manageable. We have findings for all the Watch List items. Should you be interested in findings not listed here, please contact us and we will...
A Farewell
Around this time, we try to do a year-in-review article to summarize the good and bad of the men and women who are still rebuilding their lives in the wake of the Soviet shadow; we look back at the road we’ve traveled and look forward to steps in the next year. This year, we are instead coming to the end of our own road. All good things,...
Reforming Ukraine’s Armed Forces while Facing Russia’s Aggression: the Triple Five Strategy
Four years after Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution and Russia’s subsequent invasion, Minister of Defence General Stepan Poltorak outlines Kiev’s ambitious defence reforms, which aim to provide the armed forces with the capabilities needed to protect the country and to gain full interoperability with NATO.Download the article...
Mobilising Private Sector Investment in Belarus, Moldova & Ukraine
Having taken over a difficult role in April 2017, Jason Pellmar, head of the Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova regional office of the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, talks to Andrew Wrobel about the opportunities offered by the three countries, and some of the challenges he may face. How do you see...
