Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Import Substitution is Not an Optimal Policy Solution for Ukraine
As a result of the import substitution policy, the price for a product eventually goes up and, in fact, consumers will be paying a higher price due to the inefficiency of domestic producers. VOX: Import Substitution is Not an Optimal Policy Solution for Ukraine …read more Source: The American Center for a European...
Mr. Lavrov, Russia, and the Budapest Memorandum
Russia used military force to seize and illegally annex Crimea, and it supported armed separatism in eastern Ukraine, including with leadership, funding, heavy weapons, and intervention by regular units of the Russian army. Moscow has also imposed a trade embargo on Ukraine. Those actions violate most provisions of the Budapest Memorandum....
Negotiations on Syria a veil goal of Putin, the Saudis and the US.
/Syrian-Middle East knot tightened more and more confusing and dense/ – GCSSI. RUSSIAN ANALYSIS OF WESTERN PRESS ___________________________________ February 1, 2016 In the long-awaited, but unexamined meeting on the settlement of the Syrian opposition under the auspices of the UN flatly refuse to negotiate to fulfill their conditions. Explosion...
Lead vocalist of Okean Elzy, Slava Vakarchuk to President Poroshenko
Dear Mr. President! Thank you for this award. I am honored to receive this order from the State which I always have felt, feel, and will always feel as the most native in the world. Awards – they are good. But, unfortunately, awards do not solve the challenges, which stand before us. On January 28 […] …read more Source: The American Center...
Ukrainian Activist Marina Cherenkova Missing
Veteran human rights activist Marina Cherenkova detained in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, reports say. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia’s “Militarization” of Colour Revolutions
This paper argues that ever since the 2013-2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine, the Putin Regime has viewed anti-government protests at home and abroad as a potential military threat. More specifically, the paper’s author 1) describes how this dubious assumption has been unequivocally formalized in Russia’s most recent National...
Challenges to European Security: A Transatlantic Perspective
This report summarizes the results of the 2015 Transatlantic Security Symposium, which explored ways to define and implement an overarching security agenda at the transatlantic level. The main topics covered in the report include 1) the threats posed by the so-called Islamic State; 2) Russia’s meddling in Eastern Ukraine; 3) NATO’s...
Germany and Europe’s Security: Normalisation is Overdue
Germany has gradually assumed an increasing share of European leadership in recent years. Now it needs to take more responsibility for the Continent’s security. Europe’s post-Cold War order feels increasingly under siege. The embers of the Eurozone crisis still smoulder quietly in Greece, and its fallout stifles economic growth and...
China’s Ascendance to the Position of Chief Adversary
Image credit: Poster Collection, CC 146, Hoover Institution Archives.Blank Section (Placeholder)via Military History in the NewsA significant portion of our national security establishment, painstakingly built up during the Cold War, has accepted the assumption that when it comes to threats from sovereign states, Russia, not China, is...
Crimea’s Annexation by Russia Returns to Kyiv’s International Agenda
Up to now, the shaky ceasefire in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region has mostly continued to hold (see EDM, January 21). And thus, the Crimean peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Russia in early 2014, has returned near the top of Kyiv’s international agenda. Following the severance of Ukraine’s economic ties with occupied...
