Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Killing by Sanctions
While Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, who is currently advising presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, famously said that the estimated 500,000 children who died as a result of US sanctions on Iraq was “worth it.” It was, perhaps, a rare moment of candor from a politician, an admission that Washington is willing to support ostensibly...
Ukrainian Nuclear History Fellowship
The Odessa Center for Nonproliferation (OdCNP), a partner of the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, invites applications for a fellowship hosted in Odessa, Ukraine. The Fellowship is an opportunity for scholars and researchers to conduct research on themes pertaining to the nuclear history of Ukraine. This fellowship is...
The Winners from Russia-West Conflict
Transatlantic TakePhoto: REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko WASHINGTON—On February 15, EU foreign ministers agreed to remove the sanctions first imposed in 2004 on Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko and other Belarusian officials and companies, following the temporary lifting of EU and U.S. sanctions last October. This is only a small part of a...
Russia’s Ragtag Eurasian Economic Union
Photo Credit On February 22, Kazakhstan announced the adoption of an “official program” to move the Kazakh language from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet by 2025. This seemingly domestic development is indicative of a broader regional trend: the ties between the members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) are weakening. The EEU, Russia’s...
US-ROK-Japanese trilateral security cooperation: A US perspective
When President Barack Obama announced his much-touted “rebalance” to Asia in a speech in Australia in November 2011, his administration believed that its new stance toward the Asia-Pacific policy would be his foreign policy legacy. Having ended, so they hoped, America’s military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, their emphasis on...
Moscow Exhibition on U.S. ‘Lies’ Distorts Uncomfortable Facts
Pro-Kremlin youth group uses inaccurate and misleading information to expose U.S. ‘lies,’ Novaya Gazeta says. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Parliament Votes to Weaken Ukraine’s Key Anti-Corruption Law
Since the overthrow of former President Viktor Yanukovych, the attitude of Ukraine’s post-Maidan government toward reform could best be described as ambivalent. Last week was a case in point. While Kyiv and its Western partners remained riveted by the fate of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, parliament greatly weakened a key...
US and Germany asked Ukraine not to take any actions in 2014 in response to Russia’s takeover of Crimea
The United States and Germany asked Ukraine not to start any active operations in 2014, which could trigger a large-scale ground invasion of the Russian army. UAT: US and Germany asked Ukraine not to take any actions in 2014 in response to Russia’s takeover of Crimea …read more Source: The American Center for a European...
This Is the Change Ukraine Really Needs
The constitutional reform must include redesigning the judicial system. As long as Ukrainian judicial system stays a hostage of current political infighting, citizens will never see the benefits of the rule of law. Lustration in Ukraine has become a cover for new corrupt officials and a tool for suppressing political opponents and a perpetuation...
Inquiry into murders on Maidan to end on March 1
The investigation into the cases involving the crimes during the Revolution of Dignity in 2013-2014 on the Maidan (Independence Square) in Kyiv will end on March 1, Chief of the Special Investigation Directorate of the Main Investigation Department under Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) Serhiy Horbatiuk has said. “On March...
