Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The war is on, but Ukraine publishers just march on. Talk with Dana Pavlychko
The BBC’s new historical drama War and Peace seems to have started a trend in the UK, exemplified by bohemian-style discussions about world literary classics coming from Eastern Europe. While western audiences wipe the dust from books by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Gogol on their bookshelves, publishers in the East are struggling to attract...
How Russia controls American policy
We’ve seen this movie—now playing in Syria– before.The Russians have developed a way of getting the US 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 Syria—a “cessation of hostilities” on terms they get to define– is...
Why Russia is not the West.
Alex Polikovskiy … West – is not a country or group of countries, the West – it is the direction of history. The West is not the enemy. West is not friend. West – this is not geography, is the storage life and the system of relationships that must be studied in order to understand how we integrate this powerful occupying centuries and continents...
Russia’s Economy and Implications for Russia’s Future
After a decade of record growth, Russia’s economy began to slow after 2008. This slowdown accelerated when falling oil prices combined with Western sanctions over Ukraine to exacerbate the effects of a still-unreformed economic system. Today, few can argue that Russia’s economy is in serious trouble. But where will it go from here?...
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Letting go, but not giving up: Implementation of Minsk II
Approaching its one-year anniversary date, the February 2015 Minsk II settlement agreement to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine’s Donbass is not faring well. All of its provisions were to have been implemented by Dec. 31, 2015. Few were. Still, Minsk II remains the only settlement arrangement on offer, and it continues to command at least...
Solving Obama’s Aleppo dilemma
The United States has an Aleppo dilemma. Russian forces, sensing an opportunity to rout the rebels, are bombarding Aleppo from the air and with artillery. The city is close to encirclement and a siege. Over 70,000 of its inhabitants have already left, worsening the refugee crisis that threatens stability not just in the region but also in Europe....
Why is Ukraine stalling on reforms?
Ukrainian president Viktor Yanokuvich’s refusal to sign the agreement on the EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) in November 2013 prompted civil unrest in Kiev, which later became known as “Euromaidan.” After unsuccessful attempts to quell the protest, in February 2014, Yanukovych fled the country and was ousted by the...
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Hilary Benn on Brexit: fear won’t win over undecided voters
Hilary Benn, Labour’s shadow foreign secretary, has warned that a Brexit would play into the hands of Vladimir Putin. Speaking in London about the forthcoming EU referendum, Benn sought to make a patriotic case for keeping the UK in the European Union. But this speech had none of the rhetorical flourish of Benn’s House of Commons...
