Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
CASE bids farewell to Stanislaw Wellisz
We are sad to announce that Stanislaw Wellisz, a Member of the CASE Advisory Council and the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Relations at Columbia University, passed away on February 28, 2016 at the age of 90 after long illness. Stanislaw was born in Warsaw, Poland on March 28, 1925. His family...
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 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 have each taken...
Appeal by the leaders of Ukrainian national communities to the Dutch population
Ukrainian citizens of different nationalities took an active part in the Revolution of Dignity. They fought for a European future for our country, for the rule of law, for the triumph of the principles of tolerance and the inviolability of human rights. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
With all eyes on Savchenko, Ukrainian hostage Lytvynov’s farcical trial forgotten
Another trial directly linked with Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine is continuing just around the corner from Russian Donetsk, where the ‘trial’ of Nadiya Savchenko reached its predetermined end on March 22. Serhiy Lytvynov has also been in Russian custody for almost two years and is now facing absurd charges. So absurd that...
Belarus-Ukraine Relations Beyond Media Headlines
Belarus-Ukraine relations are often ignored as a crucial factor for regional developments in Europe’s East, as well as for each country’s foreign policy. For example, the recently released study “Ukrainian Prism: Foreign Policy in 2015” does not mention Belarus among Ukraine’s key foreign policy partners (Ukrainian Prism, March...
A Comeback for South Stream?
When Moscow abruptly terminated the South Stream natural gas pipeline project in December 2014 (see EDM, December 17, 2014), that decision left all of Russia’s potential partners in the Balkans in the lurch. They had all made commitments to Russia and South Stream and, in some cases, serious financial if not political investments in the...
Russia Accuses Ukraine of Ignoring Peace Deal
March 23, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine and Turkey’s Newly Strengthened Relationship
Turkey and Ukraine, including Crimea, control 71 percent of the Black Sea coast between the two of them. With Ukraine to the north and Turkey directly to the south, the two nations have long been collegial when working together on regional problems, but their reasonably friendly relationship has generally been subordinated to more pressing...
Terror attacks put journalists’ ethics on the front line
h Everyone along the street seemed to be watching the same thing. The evenings were still light and curtains were not yet drawn, so people’s TV sets were visible through their ground-floor windows. All the screens showed the burning Twin Towers. This mass consumption of the same news – as happened on September 11, 2001 – is rarer now. The...
Kennan Cable No.15: Ukraine: What’s a Language For?
In the current conflict in Ukraine, one of Russia’s most effective propaganda weapons is its ability to fuel the fear in Ukraine’s eastern regions that the new government in Kyiv will enact laws against use of the Russian language and repress speakers of Russian. In 2014, in the aftermath of Euromaidan, the Ukrainian parliament, the...
