Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
HCSS: Panel Discussion on the Annexation of Crimea as an International Crime
It is now two years since Russia forcibly annexed Crimea. On 31 March a panel convened at the University of Leiden, Campus the Hague, will discuss the violations of public international law and the challenges… …read more Source: The Hague Centre for Strategic...
The partners from a parliamentary majority need to agree on the coalition accord
Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Hroisman, backed by President Petro Poroshenko to head a new government to lead the country out of a political tumult that’s halted the flow of international financial aid, is struggling to assemble a parliamentary majority as parties bicker before a vote on his candidacy next week, the Bloomberg...
Reports: New Ukrainian government in the offing
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk’s party has agreed with President Petro Poroshenko’s faction and the Fatherland party – all former coalition partners – to form a new alliance, the head of Yatseniuk’s People’s Front party, said on Monday (28 March). …read more Source:...
Ukrainians demand an independent Prosecutor General
200 or more protesters gathered outside the President’s Administration on Sunday demanding the removal of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin whose resignation once again seems in doubt. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Moldova’s Chief of General Staff Dismissed After Long Feud With Defense Minister
On March 18, the Moldovan government initiated the dismissal of the commander of the National Army, Brigadier General Igor Gorgan, after a months-long feud with Defense Minister Anatol Șalaru (Deschide.md, March 18). Once approved by the president, this would be the fourth reshuffle of the army’s leadership since the pro-European...
US Diplomacy Feeds Putin’s Sense of Self-Righteousness
President Vladimir Putin may have every reason to be satisfied with the visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry to Moscow last Thursday (March 24). Their meeting lasted no less than four hours, and prior to it, Kerry had a long and remarkably cheerful face-to-face conversation with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. According to observant...
Comme àla guerre.
Andrey Shipilov March 27, 2016 Today, one of my very old friend, with whom I had not spoken for many years, because our track long ago parted on different sides of the barricades, suddenly was cut in my messenger, and to my surprise, he presented me with a claim about my hints and involvement Russian secret services in the terrorist attacks in...
Europe’s Changing Geopolitics
The Cipher Brief: Is the landscape of unity within the EU changing and why? Michael Leigh: The fundamentals of EU unity remain in place: the single market, the EU’s exclusive responsibility for trade, and the primacy of EU law over national law. The EU and its member states are the largest providers of development assistance in the world....
Strategy of Effective Removal of Putin
Author – Rohovyk O., coordinator of the Free Voice IAC Source: Borysfen Intel The most effective strategy against Putin’s aggression — is a strategy to “remove” Putin by helping him lose power in Russia. And here I mean precisely political removal or self-removal from office. But then Russia without Putin for Ukraine is only a chance, not a...
The Referendum in the Netherlands
Author —Cherkas A., an Analyst of the Free Voice IAC, student of Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Source: Borysfen Intel It’s no secret that in a few weeks in the Netherlands there will be held a consultative referendum on association between Ukraine and the EU. Apart from concerns about the “failure” of the Dutch decision on Ukraine and fakes...
