Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine Plots New ‘Silk Road’ to Kazakhstan Skirting Russia
In response to Moscow’s trade restrictions, Kyiv will bypass Russia when shipping goods to Kazakhstan, announces counter-sanctions. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Escalation in Donbas indicates that the Kremlin wants to destabilise the entire Ukraine
On Christmas Eve, pro-Russian separatists dramatically increased the number of attacks in Donbas, including using tanks and mortars, admit both the Presidential Administration of Ukraine and the CTO Staff. We are talking about over 50 attacks on that day, and their intensity dropped only after the warning by the Ukrainian armed forces that “in...
Does Obama’s ‘level set’ underestimate China?
When President Obama turned to foreign policy in his final State of the Union speech yesterday, he used a phrase that seems to come from a maths textbook. Here’s the relevant passage, with emphasis added: No nation attacks us directly or our allies because they know that’s the path to ruin. Surveys show our standing around the world...
The Russo-Japanese Relationship in China’s Shadow
The New Year brought new challenges and opportunities to Russian policy in East Asia. On January 3, 2016, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe signaled Japan’s continuing interest in a summit with Russia to normalize bilateral relations (TASS, January 4), even though both sides had given up on this quest only weeks before, not least because...
New Poll Confirms Growing Mistrust Between Donbas Residents and Kyiv
Ukrainians elected more than 10,000 mayors and 160,000 city councilmembers in local elections on October 25. It was the third nationwide election since the Euromaidan Revolution. A new International Republican Institute (IRI) poll of the Ukrainian-controlled territories of the Donbas region (i.e., Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts) reveals that only 26...
Free the Kremlin’s 20 Ukrainian Hostages Now
Soviet dissident Vasyl Stus—an important Ukrainian poet of the 20th century—never lived to see the fall of the Soviet Union. He died in a prison camp near Perm in 1985.As I read one of Stus’s poems about Siberia, I realized that Gennadiy Afanasyev, a 25-year-old Crimean photographer exiled to the Sytkyvkar penal camp in Russia’s Komi...
The Real History of the Ukrainian Nation: A Review of “The Gates of Europe”
During a time of war, history becomes a weapon used to justify claims and raise soldiers’ spirits. In this case, successful histories are simple, unequivocal, and confirmed by the experiences of past centuries.The current Kremlin version of history of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine fully meets these criteria. According to...
The Putin challenge
This book review will appear in the print edition of The Weekly Standard on January 18, 2016. Access the original post here.During his traditional year-end press conference in Moscow, Vladimir Putin delighted in toying with America’s political process by touting Donald Trump as the leading candidate for the Republican presidential...
Turkey Holds Three Russians in Wake of Istanbul Terror Bombing
Turkish authorities say dozens of Islamic State supports planned further attacks in Ankara and near the Syrian border. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The cyberattack on Ukraine’s power grid is a warning of what’s to come
Steag/VGB Power Tech GmbH, CC BY-SAWhen more than 100,000 people in and around the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk were left without power for six hours, the Ukrainian energy ministry accused Russia of launching a cyberattack on the country’s national energy grid. Now reports released by security researchers from the SANS Industrial...
