Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
After Ukraine, Kazakhstan Wary of Ethnic Russians Broaching Autonomy
There is no separatist rebellion in northern Kazakhstan, but the ethnic Russians, who make up more than a fifth of the country’s 18 million population, are feeling increasingly insecure and some sympathize with the separatists in Ukraine. VOA: After Ukraine, Kazakhstan Wary of Ethnic Russians Broaching Autonomy …read more Source: The...
UKRAINE TO STAY OUT OF EU AND NATO FOR 20 YEARS, SAYS JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has dashed Ukraine’s hopes of joining the EU and NATO anytime soon, estimating that it will take at least two decades before the former Soviet state is a member of either. Newsweek: UKRAINE TO STAY OUT OF EU AND NATO FOR 20 YEARS, SAYS JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER …read more Source: The...
Pentagon: Despite Minsk II, More Than 400 Ukraine Troops Killed
More than 400 Ukrainian troops have died in fighting since the Minsk II cease-fire agreement was adopted one year ago, with Russia playing a major role in the violence. VOA: Pentagon: Despite Minsk II, More Than 400 Ukraine Troops Killed …read more Source: The American Center for a European...
Yaresko agreed to head government
After a week of prior negotiations, Natalie Jaresko agreed to become head of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. The information was provided by sources in the Presidential Administration. The strategic seven that consists of people closest to the President and Prmie Minister continues to persuade Arseniy Yatsenyuk to resign. Natalie Jaresko...
Turkey-Greece-Italy Interconnector: South Stream’s Latest Avatar? (Part One)
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the South Stream gas export project in 2007. All along, Russia lacked the gas volumes and financing that this gigantic project presupposed. Moscow poured all its resources into Nord Stream. It did not seriously intend South Stream as an energy supply project, but rather as a political project, with many...
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...
