Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine’s Got a Real Army Now. But Is It Preparing to Fight the Last Battle?
The prolonged stalemate of Minsk II has provided the Ukrainian military ample opportunity to address a series of longstanding challenges stretching back to the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych. While it is clear that the Ukrainian military has improved since its disastrous defeat at Debaltseve in February 2015, evaluating the real effect of...
Russia ‘Not Responsible’ for Syrian casualties
The Kremlin insists no concrete evidence has been put forward to prove it is guilty of killing civilians in air strikes. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
UN Says Rights Record of Belarus Remains Dismal
The dismal human rights record of Belarus shows no sign of improvement after October’s elections, UN says. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
UK Baltic Deployment Amid Fears Over Russia
Britain to contribute a large contingent of troops to a new NATO force bordering Russia. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Moscow is preparing Syria and the world a choice: Assad or IS.
/Moscow alternative – the infinite horror, or horror without end…/ – GCSSI February 10, 2016 Russian air strikes “completely destroyed the settlements” in the United States to Syria, acknowledged US intelligence. Assad army offensive with the support of Moscow – slap in the face to the West, as well as Turkey and Saudi Arabia, who are banking on...
Stern: Putin’s policy is based on the rejection of humanity.
February 9, 2016 “The refusal of any kind of humanity – that’s what keeps the policy of the Russian despot Vladimir Putin», – writes Andreas Petzold in the German magazine Stern. Currently “toxic sediments tens of thousands of its unlimited arbitrariness and tyranny going on the Syrian-Turkish border,” – says the author. People flee from...
Russian Royals to Get ‘Game of Thrones’ Treatment
Russian producers plan 144-episodes TV series on the rise, glory, and bloody downfall of the House of Romanov. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
War or Peace in Ukraine?
The conflict in Ukraine has reached an uneasy impasse. As Putin, ever the strategic grandmaster, focuses his attention on the Middle East the future of peace in Ukraine remains uncertain. With all remaining quiet in the East of the country, where the conflict had sent ripples of Russian expansionist paranoia throughout Europe, what is the current...
“Russian Bear reigns on Syrian soil.”
RUSSIAN ANALYSIS OF WESTERN PRESS ___________________________________ February 9, 2016 Russian air strikes in Aleppo, which began shortly after the opening of the Geneva talks on Syria and on the background of the visit to Turkey, German Chancellor Merkel, changing the whole military and political landscape of Syria, wrote the Western press....
Legal Case in Chelyabinsk Raises Specter of Regional Separatism in Russia
As more and more low-level or hushed-up evidence makes clear, the Kremlin’s Ukraine gambit may have serious, unexpected domestic ramifications for the Russian Federation, such as increasing the likelihood of regional separatism—a prospect not seriously considered since the early 2000s and the end of Russia’s second war in Chechnya. In...
