Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The cyberattack on Ukraine’s power grid is a warning of what’s to come
Steag/VGB Power Tech GmbH, CC BY-SAWhen more than 100,000 people in and around the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk were left without power for six hours, the Ukrainian energy ministry accused Russia of launching a cyberattack on the country’s national energy grid. Now reports released by security researchers from the SANS Industrial...
Explainer: why everyone is giving Poland a hard time
A protest flag depicts Jarosław Kaczyński as Poland’s puppet master. Reuters/Kacper PempelSince coming into power at the end of October 2015, Poland’s new, right-wing government has caused a stir at home and drawn international criticism. Hardly a day passes at the moment without EU officials or European leaders questioning decisions...
Ukraine in 2016: good news and bad news
The international environment in 2016 is opportune for Ukraine again, as in 1991, to break free from Russia’s clutches. Growing disenchantment is deepened by Ukrainians being asked to tighten their belts over unpopular economic, social and fiscal reforms, while popular reforms against the corruption of high-level officials and oligarchs are...
Ukraine: The Good, The Bad, and The Irreversible
For outside observers and pundits alike, interpreting the myriad of recent Ukraine-related headlines might be a difficult if not impossible task. To an optimist, healthy debate represents the growing pains of a budding democracy. To a pessimist, this is chaos and a relapse into the old habits. As with most things in life, the truth […]...
Ukraine’s national bank makes the Federal Reserve seem saintly
Ukraine’s economic and political challenges do not explain or justify the actions by the National Bank of Ukraine that are actually exacerbating rather than alleviating the country’s problems. The Hill: Ukraine’s national bank makes the Federal Reserve seem saintly …read more Source: The American Center for a European...
Putin names condition for Ukraine’s retaking its eastern borders
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Ukraine will be able to retake its eastern border with Russia only after constitutional reform has been introduced. Unian: Putin names condition for Ukraine’s retaking its eastern borders …read more Source: The American Center for a European...
Inside The Trauma Centers Treating Ukraine’s Veterans
Since the onset of the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014, some 9,000 soldiers have died and at least 20,000 have been injured. Huffington Post: Inside The Trauma Centers Treating Ukraine’s Veterans …read more Source: The American Center for a European...
The history of Ukraine — from Herodotus to Hitler
This is an excellent piece explaining how Ukraine came about. Spectator: The history of Ukraine — from Herodotus to Hitler …read more Source: The American Center for a European...
Russia’s 2015 National Security Strategy
Russia’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), signed into law by President Vladimir Putin on December 31, 2015, marks the culmination of a long process in deteriorating relations between Moscow and Washington and in how the Russian security elite perceives the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The security document itself must be...
Can Turkey’s economy survive terrorism?
The terrorist bombing today in the center of Istanbul’s tourist district — coming three months after twin suicide bombings at a peace rally in the capital of Ankara — is the new normal for Turkey. Just as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Syria experienced after they had sponsored and supported Islamist extremists conducting terrorism abroad,...
