Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Ukrainian President Talks Of A Swap For Pilot Convicted In Russia
Russian foreign minister says only Putin can make such an agreement. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kremlin Outraged at Ukrainian Claim That Russia Linked to Brussels Attacks
Top official in Kyiv draws harsh response from Russian politicians who also use the opportunity to denounce Western ‘double standards.’ …read more Source: Transitions Online...
After the terrorist attacks in Brussels: fight or surrender?
… The most important thing is clear: it is only the beginning. Mar 23, 2016 Avraham Shmulevich On the morning of Tuesday, March 22 three explosions at the Brussels airport. Later, four bombs exploded in the Brussels metro. Killing at least 31 people (11 at the airport, 20 meters), about 200 were injured. the highest alert level was announced,...
