Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
New year, new leaf? What to watch in Turkey in 2016
The Turkey of a decade ago was at a very different crossroads. That Turkey had met the European Union’s “Copenhagen political criteria,” a set of democracy- and governance-related requirements that EU candidates had to meet, and had started accession negotiations. That Turkey’s economy was just beginning to take off. For the first...
Ukraine ‘Confident’ of Success in Russian Debt Lawsuit
January 4, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
What to Watch in 2016: GMF Experts Look at the Year Ahead
Transatlantic Take2015 was a tumultuous year for the transatlantic partners. The refugee crisis, terrorist attacks, Russian aggression, and economic issues dominated discussions on both sides of the Atlantic in ways that would have been difficult to predict at the start of the year. What will 2016 bring? More of the same? Or are new issues...
New Russian Management of the Donbas Signifies Putin May Be Ready to Negotiate
On December 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed one of his close, trusted aides, Boris Gryzlov, Russia’s representative in the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine, which concluded the two Minsk agreements on the Donbas in September 2014 and February 2015. This appointment suggests an important change in Russia’s policy...
Dutch to Assess Alleged Russian Troop Role in MH17 Crash
A citizens’ journalist group passes on information to the Dutch prosecutors which allegedly identifies Russian soldiers responsible for bringing down the airliner. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
New publication: Quo vadis, Ukraine? Is there a chance for success? | mBank–CASE Seminar Proceedings No. 139
Language English If I were to say just one thing about Ukraine, I think I would have to stress it is the most underperforming country of all the countries I know.” said Ivan Mikloš, co-founder and president of think-tank MESA10 and a member of the International Advisory Board of National Reform Council of Ukraine, and a keynote speaker...
Plan “Intermarum” – Britain supports, not against France, Ukraine and Poland will make.
NEW “CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNION ” ? …British policy in Europe for hundreds of years based on the concept of “balance of power” among the European countries where there is no single dominant center, and there are at least two. By Viktor Shevchuk, Vitaly Rozhdaev. Just look at this map. What do you think looking at these countries in Eastern Europe?...
NATO and Russia divide the Baltics./Putin’s new defense strategy declares NATO a threat.
/Save yourself as you can, because West haven’t the guts?/- GCSSI. “Putin may think that Obama is also very weak, and he will be tempted to embark on yet another power adventure. Whether in Ukraine, or in Georgia again, whether in Transnistria, or in the Baltic States. Whether elsewhere in the former Soviet space, or along the borders of...
Lilia Ukrainets: There are countries that have managed to establish efficient economy under conditions of armed conflict, but it should be recognized that such cases are rather exceptions from the rule
Free Voice Information Analysis Center offers our readers an interview with the candidate of economic sciences, assistant professor of international economic relations of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Ukrainets Lilia Anatoliivna about current trends in the development of Ukraine’s economy and related international economic...
Russia and Ukraine, Joined at the Hip No More
By Leonid Bershidsky Russia and Ukraine have spent most of their post-Soviet history as Siamese twins, but for the last two years they’ve been undergoing political and economic separation surgery. It will probably be more or less complete in 2016, and though both twins are in for a grim period, the weaker one, Ukraine, has […] …read...
