Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Twenty Ukrainians exposed in Panama Papers leak
As of now, out of the 20 Ukrainians mentioned in the Panama Papers, three persons – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, and Kyiv Post owner Mohammad Zahoor – have been covered by separate materials. Poroshenko set up an offshore holding company “to move his business to the British Virgin Islands (BVI), […]...
Poroshenko calls New York Times editorial part of ‘hybrid war’ against Ukraine
In response to a New York Times editorial criticizing Ukraine’s “unyielding corruption,” President Petro Poroshenko said that spreading such damaging information was part of the hybrid war against Ukraine. Poroshenko’s response made waves in Ukrainian social media, with many people saying that the comments show that the president has...
Putin Caught Up in Panama Papers Leak
Russian president is among dozens of world leaders, top officials, and celebrities mentioned in ‘biggest financial leak in history.’ …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Georgian Drift: The Crisis of Georgia’s Way Westwards
This brief 1) assesses Georgia’s deteriorating political, economic and social circumstances, and 2) explores how the country’s political and social malaise has been breeding Euro-skepticism and an overall disenchantment with the West. If these trends aren’t reversed, the brief’s author concludes, the country may lose what...
How war in Nagorno-Karabakh could spread – and become a major problem for Europe
Every now and then, the West is reminded of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom it knows nothing (as Neville Chamberlain once said). Nagorno-Karabakh is such a place, a tiny enclave that has caused strife between neighbouring Azerbaijan and Armenia even before they gained independence from the Soviet Union. While recognised as...
Panama Papers
Russian president is among dozens of world leaders, top officials, and celebrities mentioned in ‘biggest financial leak in history.’ …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia’s Arctic Security Policy: Still Quiet in the High North
This paper examines Russia’s policies towards the Arctic and how its proxy war in Ukraine has affected its security relations with its northern neighbors. More specifically, the author grapples with a number of questions that apply here. For example, what are Russia’s security concerns in the Arctic region? How has Moscow’s...
A Healthy Future?
A team of photographers will soon set off to find out if Soviet-era sanatoriums can survive the modern age. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukrainian High Court Summarises Case Law on the Enforcement and Setting Aside of International Arbitration Awards
On 11 December 2015, the Highest Specialised Court of Civil and Criminal Cases of Ukraine (HSC) approved its Overview of case law related to the recognition and setting aside of international arbitration awards by Ukrainian courts (“Overview”). The Overview was officially published in February 2016. By means of this Overview, the HSC confirmed...
IWP will present «Foreign Policy Audit: Ukraine-Turkey»
On April 13 the Institute of world policy is going to hold public discussion and present the research paper on the Turkish-Ukrainian relations within the project “Ukraine’s Foreign Policy Audit”. …read more Source: Institute of World...
