Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Meaning of Russia’s Naval Deployments in the Mediterranean
Russian ships equipped with the advanced sea-launched Kalibr cruise missile will now be perpetually present in the Mediterranean Sea as part of Moscow’s naval operations connected to the mission in Syria. This is according to Admiral Aleksandr Vitko, the commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF) (RIA Novosti, February 19)....
Murder Is Washington’s Foreign Policy
Washington has a long history of massacring people, for example, the destruction of the Plains Indians by the Union war criminals Sherman and Sheridan and the atomic bombs dropped on Japanese civilian populations, but Washington has progressed from periodic massacres to fulltime massacring. From the Clinton regime forward, massacre of civilians...
Why are Europe’s Crises ‘Existential’?
Transatlantic Take(BRUSSELS) – March 2016 may well make it into the history books as a make or break month for the EU. The EU-Turkey Summit of March 7 and the European Council Summit of March 17-18 will have to produce short and long term measures addressing the current mayhem caused by the European governments’ disorderly responses...
How Russia controls American policy
Download the PDF By Kimberly Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan We’ve seen this movie—now playing in Syria– before. The Russians have developed a way of getting the U.S. formally to permit offensive Russian military operations against American partners on the ground, all the while calling it a ceasefire. What the Russians are proposing in...
Normandy Four Fail to Reach Agreement on Eastern Ukraine Elections
March 4, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
“You Have Not Defeated Me and You Never Will!” Ukrainian Fighter Pilot Nadiya Savchenko Tells Court
Even for Russia, where everyday life can best be described as Kafkaesque, the case of Nadiya Savchenko is outrageous. In 2014, during the war in Ukraine’s Donbas, Savchenko, a Ukrainian military officer captured by the pro-Russian separatists in combat, was transferred to Russia, where she was accused of involvement in the death of two...
Update on Ukraine
David Speedie discusses the situation in Ukraine with Nicolai Petro, including the political crisis for the governing party in Kiev, the situation in Eastern Ukraine, and the state of the Minsk accords. …read more Source: Carnegie Council for Ethics in International...
Russian propaganda in EaP countries.
Bako Kheladze /GCSSI Club of young analysts/ /On the photo: The visual effects room of Russia Today RT/ The term “propaganda”, which has not been widely used after the Cold War, is often associated with authoritarian regimes of twentieth century. However, nowadays many people talk about Russian propaganda, which is successfully used by...
Ukraine Talks Fail To Ease Standoff
March 4, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Revamped traffic police rebrands Ukrainian law enforcement
First deputy minister for internal affairs Ekaterina Zguladze-Glucksmann provided a rare insight into the kind of reforms in Ukraine performed by foreign experts, such as herself. EurActiv reports from Kyiv. …read more Source:...
