Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
With One Eye on Moscow, Europe Presses Ukraine on Reforms
The European Union pressed Ukraine authorities on Monday to overcome political feuding and implement promised reforms as it looks to shore up the country’s democratic and economic credentials. Having so far failed to end the Russian-backed war in eastern Ukraine, Kiev’s western supporters are now seeking to shift the focus onto...
Timothy Ash: Is Ukraine-Russian peace deal brewing behind the scenes?
Something significant might be happening in the Ukraine peace process. KP: Timothy Ash: Is Ukraine-Russian peace deal brewing behind the scenes? …read more Source: The American Center for a European...
Russia: Turn to China?
After its relations with the West deteriorated massively in the course of the Ukraine crisis, Russia has been aligning itself increasingly towards China. This shift is most obvious in the strategic spheres of military and energy cooperation. Even if the immediate impacts on Germany and the European Union – caused by the dynamics in the...
Rethinking the security of the European Union’s gas supply
Highlights The security of the European Union’s gas supplies is crucial to ensuring that supplies to households are not disrupted in freezing winters, that industry can flourish and that the EU cannot be blackmailed in vital foreign policy questions. Gas supply security should be addressed at EU level because a joint solution would be...
Iranian oil threatens to sink the Russian economy.
VIEW FROM RUSSIA RUSSIAN ANALYSIS OF WESTERN PRESS __________________________________“President Putin was in economic terms with nothing” …it would be the beginning of the end of the social contract between the “king” and the people? January 19, 2016 After the removal of international sanctions, Iran is going to pump more oil in an oversaturated...
How to Help Ukraine: An Alternative Vision
Three former US Ambassadors to Ukraine recently wrote an op-ed article in the New York Times (“Investing in Ukraine’s Future,” December 30, 2015) that called for an increase in Western financial assistance to Ukraine and argued that the country is now “teetering on the brink.” I strongly support their willingness to...
Kadyrov’s Friends Issue Threats to Critics
Siberian politician claims thinly disguised death threat forced him to apologize to the Chechen strongman leader. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
How Ukraine’s Reformers Beat the Pharma Mafia
A little over a month after US Vice President Joe Biden told Ukrainian legislators that graft was eating Ukraine “like a cancer,” an order from Ukraine’s cabinet of ministers struck a decisive blow against pharmaceutical corruption. This order outsources the purchasing of numerous medicines for seriously ill Ukrainians from the...
No Regrets Over Ukraine Split, But Crimeans Want More Love From Russia
January 19, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Missing from the ‘State of the Union’
I had expected that there would be little in last week’s State of the Union address about foreign policy as it is not an Administration strength, but, to my surprise, President Barack Obama gave it about eight minutes, a little over 1000 words. Governor Nikki Haley was, however, more detached from the issue in her rebuttal speech, stating...
