Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
EU leaders show willingness to help on UK reforms but warn against discrimination ahead of EU summit
EU leaders show willingness to help on UK reforms but warn against discrimination ahead of EU summitEU leaders will meet in Brussels this evening where Prime Minister David Cameron will present his reform demands. Speaking to the Bundestag yesterday German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested Germany would help its “natural ally” in the UK and that...
Russia Suspends Free Trade Zone with Ukraine
President Petro Poroshenko says Ukraine is ‘ready to pay the price’ for a trade deal with the EU. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Threats to the Paris accord
The deal on climate change, concluded on December 2015 in the UN Climate Conference in Paris, can justifiably be described as a game-changer or, in U.S. President Barack Obama’s words, humanity’s “best chance to save the planet”. 195 countries – including the U.S. and China which account for 35% of greenhouse emissions – managed,...
Corruption schemes pose the biggest threat to the energy security of Ukraine
The biggest threat to the Ukrainian security are corruption schemes. This opinion was expressed by Director of Energy Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Volodymyr Omelchenko on Radio Liberty. “We have enough power plants that run on gaseous coal, and they are not busy although we have enough gaseous coal. I think this is corrupt conspiracy in...
Meeting with deputy of the National Assembly of France
Viktor Zamiatin, Leading Expert of Political and Legal Programmes at the Razumkov Centre, attended a meeting of representatives of Ukrainian analytical centres with Ms. Elisabeth Guigou, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French National Assembly. The discussion concerned, among other things, the development of the social and political...
Press conference ‘Citizens of Ukraine on Security: Assessments, Threats, Solutions to Problems’
1 December 2015: the Razumkov Centre held a press conference titled ‘Citizens of Ukraine on Security: Assessments, Threats, Solutions to Problems’. The press conference included the findings of the Razumkov Centre’s sociological research. Participants of the press conference: 1. Andriy Bychenko, Director of Sociological Service; 2....
Visit of the Macedonian delegation
A delegation from Macedonia paid a visit to the Razumkov Centre, its members including Mr. Nenad Kolev, Director General of the General Department of Bilateral Cooperation with Countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Eurasia and the Pacific Region, and Mr. Stole Zmeykoski, Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia to Ukraine. The Razumkov...
The Revolutionary Path to Reform for Ukraine’s National Police
Ukrainians are growing increasingly impatient with Ukraine’s lack of reforms. But the country’s police reforms are working, says Khatia Dekanoidze, the newly-appointed chief of the Ukrainian National Police.How does she know?”The number one tool to…measure effectiveness of police is trust,” Dekanoidze said on...
Belarus’ Nobel Prize Winner and Her Country Defy Clichés
On December 7, Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature, gave her Nobel lecture in Stockholm (Naviny.by, December 7). The lecture was delivered in Russian, the language in which Alexievich writes. In it, she first dwelled on her post–World War II experiences reflected in her most famous non-fiction...
Destruction of Donbas Economy Supports Local Russia-Backed ‘Insurgency’
Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov’s key energy company DTEK announced the restructuring of its $750 million and $160 million Eurobonds, which are set to mature in 2018 (Interfax-Ukraine, December 1). One of the main reasons for the company’s continuing financial troubles has been the war in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donbas...
