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...
New Appointments Give Clues on Trump’s European Policy: Wess Mitchell nominated for Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Language English Chroniques américaines As European leaders are poised to meet again with the American president next week during the UN General Assembly (Sept.12-25, 2017), they will probably harbor the same interrogations that have plagued them since Donald Trump’s election: what is the President’s European policy? During the...
FTAC: “Oh, Jerusalem” and Islam’s New Divide
The prompt was the familiar — too familiar — and now cliche threat: the whole Muslims world will now unify against the “Little” and “Great” Satan that would be Israel and the United States were it not that Moscow, Damascus, and Tehran have consistently and with enthusiasm proven themselves cruel and evil to the Believers fervent or moderate:...
Ukraine’s Key Trends: Looking Ahead to 2018
Invitation Only Research Event 12 Dec 2017 – 10:00 to 11:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London Russia and Eurasia Programme, …read more Source: Chatham...
Ukrainian Reform Activists Derail Effort To ’Destroy’ Anticorruption Body
Ukrainian activists and reformist lawmakers worked tirelessly overnight to remove a bill from parliamentary consideration that they say would “destroy”the country’s only independent investigative body by dismissing its chief. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
New article by Johannes Leitner and Hannes Meissner on Political Risks in the Ukraine
Der Beitrag New article by Johannes Leitner and Hannes Meissner on Political Risks in the Ukraine erschien zuerst auf Competence Center for Black Sea Region Studies. …read more Source: Competence Center for Black Sea Region...
Ukraine: a commotion around Saakashvili
On 5 December in Kiev an attempt was made by the security service of Ukraine to detain Mikheil Saakashvili. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
New law proposing to give politicians control over anti-corruption agencies withdrawn after protest?
A bill just tabled in Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada would allow parliament to dismiss the heads of independent anti-corruption agencies, whose scope includes investigating corruption by those same politicians. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Legal experts demolish the allegations against Mikheil Saakashvili as his associate jailed
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General cane up with apparently serious allegations on December 5, as well as some intercepted telephone conversations, to back the aborted attempt to detain Mikheil Saakashvili which made headlines throughout the world. While Saakashvili remains at liberty, his close associate Severion Dangadze has been remanded in...
