Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Biden Issues Warning to Oligarchs as Corruption Accusations Fly in Ukraine
Now may be the last chance to stop corruption from eroding the foundations of the Ukrainian state, the United States’ Vice President Joe Biden told local politicians during his visit to Kyiv on December 6–8. Addressing the Ukrainian parliament on December 8, he warned against repeating the mistakes of the 2004 Orange Revolution, after which...
Addressing the Russian Energy Challenge: Why Regulation Trumps Geopolitics
Energy Geopolitics are Back in Europe In European capitals, an increasingly assertive Russia has triggered renewed concerns related to the security of EU gas supplies. EU leaders have vivid memories of January 2009 when Russian gas supplies were cut for 13 days, affecting a total of 16 EU member states. Clearly, the ongoing Ukraine crisis has...
The Second Cold War
In the light of the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, there has been much talk about the clouding of US-Russian relations. Some voices in the Internet’s alternative media sections have conjured the possibility that these conflicts might lead to a new major war, while social networks like Twitter saw the usage of the hashtags #WorldWarIII and...
War In Europe: Why The Army Is Worried (From Forbes)
Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine has forced the Pentagon to rethink what threats might be facing Europe in the years ahead. However, not much has been done to bolster U.S. forces that would have to cope with further Russian land [Read More…]The post War In Europe: Why The Army Is Worried (From Forbes) appeared first on Lexington...
Questions of Cost, Security, Challenge Russia’s World Cup Preparations
This weekend’s European Championship draw offers an opportunity to examine the current status of Russia’s progress towards the 2018 World Cup. December 11, 2015 By Manuel Veth This Friday, the Union of European Football Associations—the administrative body for association football in Europe—will draw the groups for the European...
Putin’s Power Play in Syria
At the end of September, Russia began conducting air strikes in Syria, ostensibly to combat terrorist groups. The strikes constitute Russia’s biggest intervention in the Middle East in decades. Its unanticipated military foray into Syria has transformed the civil war there into a proxy U.S.-Russian conflict and has raised the stakes in the...
How not to have a conversation about foreign policy
Oxford Dictionaries define “ad hominem” as an argument “directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.” It is therefore disappointing that in his article about libertarianism and foreign policy in The American Conservative, my former colleague at the Cato Institute, Doug Bandow, spends as much time dissecting the...
Unlike many EU politicians, Biden objectively assessed the situation in Donbas
Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk says that the most serious and not very pleasant message for the Ukrainian politics given by Joe Biden is obvious concern about the level of corruption in Ukraine and the lack of progress in the fight against it, informs the website...
Russian Prosecutor Accuses Khodorkovsky of Murder and Coup Plot
Fresh murder charge comes after Mikhail Khodorkovsky allegedly called for violent overthrow of authorities under President Putin. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Toxic Waste Remains at Ukraine Site, Despite $125m Project
Investigation by Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project points to a dangerous fraud. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
