Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kazakhstan Faces Militarization of the Caspian
In late February, Russian TV channel Zvezda, which is wholly owned by the Ministry of Defense, broadcast a video about a new type of assault boat that will be commissioned next year as part of Russia’s strategy to boost its coastal defense. The Murena-class fast assault air-cushion craft will run on a couple of high-temperature gas turbine...
Number of People Registered in Russia as Extremists Continues to Grow
In an attempt to decrease tensions in the North Caucasus, the Russian authorities set out to register all potential extremists who might carry out a terrorist attack, in the opinion of the police and the Federal Security Service (FSB). Since the start of 2016, reports started to emerge detailing the number of extremists and their locations. In...
Crimean prisoners illegally taken to Russia and ‘retried’
There are at least three Ukrainian prisoners who have been deprived of their right to amnesty under Ukrainian law and taken against their will to Russia where they were effectively ‘re-convicted’ under Russian law. The real number of such prisoners could be much higher. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Kyiv At Fault for Impeding Peace Process: Lavrov
Ukraine insists separatist areas are too insecure to hold elections there, as stipulated in Minsk peace deal. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Crimea Celebrates Its Second Anniversary as Part of Russia: Time to Drop Sanctions against Moscow
Doug Bandow Two years ago Russia detached Crimea from Ukraine. Since then the Western allies have huffed and puffed while imposing economic sanctions, but to little effect. Although Russia’s economy has suffered, Vladimir Putin remains popular. Most important, Crimea just celebrated the second anniversary of its switch, with construction...
The 2016 Nuclear Security Summit returns to Washington
25-03-2014_Fotografia_Oficial_da_Cúpula_de_Segurança_Nuclear_2014_(13475341143) (1).jpg Rachel Staley Grant, Programmes and Operations Manager In his 2009 speech in Prague, President Obama described the threat of terrorists acquiring nuclear weapons as the “most immediate and extreme threat to global security”. Setting the bar high, he also...
Everything you need to know about mini nuclear reactors
Because knowledge is power FooTToo/ShutterstockNuclear power can be a touchy subject, one that seems to divide opinion. Many people believe it is unclean, controversial and costly – and the 2011 Fukushima disaster showed the world just how unsafe nuclear can be; the meltdown of the power plant was the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in...
LIVE WEBCAST – The emerging China-Russia axis: The return of geopolitics?
Event Information March 24, 2016 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDTFalk Auditorium Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 Register for the Event #ChinaRussia Tweets Over the past decade, Russia and China have come into closer alignment and their bilateral collaboration has grown. At the same time, Beijing and Moscow...
Mendras: Ukrainian Issue will be Crucial in Relations between Russia and the EU (video blog)
Marie Mendras, Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Academy, German Marshall Fund (Washington, D.C) and Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs, explains the change in the EU relations with Russia and Ukraine in video blog for IWP. …read more Source: Institute of World...
Ioannis Karras: Ukraine Needs Patience to Get into the EU (videoblog)
Ioannis Karras, Assistant Professor of History Freiburg University and Visiting Lecturer International Hellenic University Thessaloniki, explains the value of the EU. …read more Source: Institute of World...
