Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kennan Cable No.14: Breaking the Ukrainian Procuracy
Securing the gains of revolution is often more difficult than the act of insurrection itself. The 2014 Maidan uprising has proven to be no exception to this rule, and despite notable achievements over the past two years, a growing consensus now exists that the reform process has hit a considerable, and potentially fatal roadblock: the...
Russia will brush off Litvinenko accusations – and there is little that can be done about it
Marina Litvinenko has called for action against Russia over her husband’s death. PA/Stefan RousseauThe final report from the long-running inquiry into the death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko has re-ignited the controversy over what is undeniably the biggest assassination case seen in the UK for decades. The story has all the...
Donbas Fields Have Frozen Over, but for Now the Ceasefire Holds
One year ago, bloody battles raged throughout the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas. The traditional autumn “rasputitsa” (mud season) usually ends by January: The dirt freezes, allowing trucks, troops and heavy military equipment to maneuver through fields and use unpaved roads. By mid-January 2015, the Donbas separatist forces—armed, trained,...
The U.S. And Russia Won’t Reconcile In 2016 But Will Keep Ukraine From Collapse, Says CGI President
Komsomolskaya Pravda | January 21, 2016 An interview with Nikolai Zlobin about Syria, Ukraine, and U.S.-Russian relations. …read more Source: Center on Global...
Karl Rove: Why McKinley still matters
The economy has been staggering, with stagnant or no growth, for several years after a financial crisis. Loud voices are being raised against Wall Street financiers and the concentration of great wealth in few hands. Rapid technological development is generating massive economic change, with many old-line jobs vanishing. Majorities disapprove of...
Turkey and Russia’s Proxy War and the Kurds
The Perfect Pretext Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian jet has resulted in dramatic changes between those two states. But while it was an extraordinary development, the paradigmatic shift between Turkey and Russia is not a result of this incident. Both countries had already been heading in different and opposing directions in foreign...
Thousands Demonstrate in Moldova
Demonstrators on Wednesday stormed the country’s parliament after it approved a new pro-European government. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Al Qaeda and ISIS: Existential threats to the US and Europe
Why the need for this series?The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute conducted an intensive multi-week exercise to frame, design, and evaluate potential courses of action that the United States could pursue to defeat the threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and al Sham...
Court arrested Kurchenko’s shares worth 2 billion
Kyiv Pechersk court arrested 80% of stakes in Brokbusinessbank in the frame of the investigation of frauds committed by businessman Sergei Kurchenko. This was announced in nine definitions of Kyiv Pechersk district court on January 4, placed in the Unified Register of judgments. According to court documents, the request for arrest were filed to...
Cabinet approves expanded list of embargoed Russian goods
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved an expanded list of Russian goods banned from being imported into the territory of Ukraine, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said during a government meeting on Jan. 20. “Today more than 70 types of commodities originating from Russia will be added to the original list of the Russian-made goods […]...
