Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Big Rise In Number of Russian Living In Poverty
Nearly 20 million people are now eking out a living on wages which are below the poverty line, latest state statistics show. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Don’t Mess With Kyiv’s Activists
Ukrainians may soon be granted visa-free travel within the European Union, thanks to Kyiv’s watchful activists. But that status was in jeopardy after parliament weakened a key anti-corruption law on February 16. Visa-free travel was linked to a series of reforms, including a law that discloses the income of Ukrainian officials. …read...
Can Minsk Deliver a Sustainable Peace?
Is the Minsk process salvageable?Twelve experts gathered at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, on March 17 to debate whether the Minsk ceasefire can deliver a sustainable peace in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has claimed over 10,000 lives and displaced more than 1.6 million people.The Minsk accords, signed in 2014 and 2015, have remained the...
Obama’s surprising self-assessment
President Barack Obama put himself in the confession box in his recent and much publicized interview in The Atlantic magazine with Jeffrey Goldberg. This is normally something that American presidents do after they leave office. But Mr. Obama is no ordinary president. In his lengthy discourse, the President cast himself in the role of both sinner...
Russia And China Compete In New Central Asia Great Game
China’s ambitions for the region are reported to cause concern in Moscow that its diplomatic influence in an area once part of the Soviet Union may be receding. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Presentation “Audit of Foreign Policy: Ukraine-US”
On March 29, the Institute of World Policy is going to present a research “Audit of Foreign Policy: Ukraine-U.S.”. …read more Source: Institute of World...
GDP will grow by almost one per cent this year – in 2017 and 2018 the growth will gain momentum
Although general economic uncertainty has increased, the baseline scenario for the international economy is guardedly positive: economic growth in the euro area and the US will continue at last year’s pace, China’s growth will slow down in a controlled manner. Finland’s GDP will grow by 0.9 per cent in 2016; growth will...
Two scenarios for Ukraine after Putin’s withdrawal from Syria
In his column on the website Segodnia, Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk described the two possible scenarios for Donbas after the withdrawal of part of the Russian troops from Syria. Putin surprised everyone again. His decision on the withdrawal from Syria is a complete...
For Ukraine, EU sanctions on Russia hang in the balance
Ukraine needs the West more than the West needs Ukraine, and the government is in no position to pressure the European Union. Writes Stratfor, the Global Intelligence company. …read more Source:...
Amnesty International’s call for Savchenko ’retrial’ is worse than silence
If Amnesty International has understood how flawed the trial in Russia of Ukrainian Nadiya Savchenko is, it must surely understand how extraordinary its demand for only a ‘retrial’ is. A retrial in which country? AI’s silence on the problem here is, unfortunately, not new. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
