Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The world in 2016
The world is in the midst of growing geo-economic instability that is generating widespread global political turbulence. Even as the weight of economic activity continues to shift from West to East, the institutions of global governance remain firmly in the hands of the West. Gateway House argues that this is rendering these institutions...
Russia’s Revival: Opportunities and Limitations for Pakistan
The Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) organized a review meeting on “Russia’s Revival: Opportunities and Limitations for Pakistan” in IPRI Conference Hall on December 11, 2015. Introduction Vladimir Putin has been Russia’s dominant political figure since 2000 and Russia under him is reasserting its role in its immediate...
Who Will Identify Ukraine’s Dead?
With the body count in Ukraine rising and the government overwhelmed, a volunteer group is working to make sure families learn the fate of their loved ones. …read more Source: Open Society...
Why Do Ukraine’s Reform Ministers Keep Quitting?
February 3, Ukraine’s Minister of Economic Development and Trade Aivaras Abromavicius announced his resignation at a press briefing with a big bang that may unleash a political crisis and shake the country’s fragile finances.Abromavicius, a 40-year-old investment banker of Lithuanian origin, who has lived in Kyiv for many years as a...
Only Presidential Leadership Can Avert Ukraine’s Perfect Storm
The February 3 resignation of Ukraine’s Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius is a signal that the country’s efforts to dramatically reduce corruption and rent-seeking are meeting with serious resistance.The resignation also exposes how Ukraine’s political system works. Just as in established democracies, technocrats and experts...
Russian Propaganda in Ukraine: Fighting Phantoms
For Ukrainians, the war in eastern Ukraine has become an everyday reality. Only two years ago, though, no one in the country believed war was possible—and certainly no one expected that propaganda would be one of its main weapons.Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, little attention was paid to building a system that would ensure the...
Ukraine Warns of Rising Risk of War with Russia
February 3, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukrainian Minister Labels Poroshenko Ally Corruption Mastermind
Aivaras Abromavicius quits, accusing president’s man of trying to implant shady officials at the Economy Ministry. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Egypt Seeks Russian Investment, Restart of Tourism
Relations hit bottom after the Metrojet catastrophe over Sinai killed 224 people, mostly Russian holidaymakers. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
A new way to approach Europe’s gas security, beyond the usual Russian obsession
This op-ed was originally published in Dienas Bizness (Latvia), (Finland), Sina (China). It will be published in Hospodarske Noviny (Slovakia), El Economista (Spain), Le Temps (Switzerland), Diario Economico (Portugal), and Dziennik Gazeta (Poland). European citizens remain vulnerable to another gas crisis, ten years after Russia cut off gas...
