Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Joe Biden Urges Lawmakers In Ukraine To Fulfill Promise Of Uprising
December 8, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Putin’s Goal is a New Yalta
I recently met with Ilya Yashin, a Russian opposition leader, political activist, and former colleague of the assassinated politician Boris Nemtsov. When I asked Yashin what the West could do to help those brave enough to defy the Russian regime, his main point was that governments and organizations must support Ukraine.The reason is obvious:...
Nord Stream 2: Downgrading Europe’s Security of Supply Where it Matters
Nord Stream 2 is the latest Russian incarnation meant to bypass Ukraine and bring its gas directly to the European border. It would double the existing Nord Stream capacity to 110 billion cubic meters/year with two additional strings between Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea. In spite of a recently signed shareholders agreement between...
The bumpy road. Difficult reform process in Ukraine
Over the past few months Kyiv has initiated a few major changes, but the delays in the reform process are growing. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Arranging the European symphony
Most university seminars on the European Union begin with a seemingly simple, yet in truth remarkably complex exercise: defining Europe. Some answers can be quite creative, ranging from definitions based on who partakes in the Eurovision Song Contest to geographic, cultural, as well as political definitions. Very clearly, Europe means different...
Georgia Strips Saakashvili of Citizenship
Now a Ukrainian citizen, the ex-president says the decision exposes the authorities as ‘scared and failed.’ …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia Probes Khodorkovsky Link to 1998 Murder
Ex-Yukos chief’s father was questioned in June after investigators said new evidence emerged about the killing. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Tusk: All member states and EU institutions must show readiness for compromise in UK renegotiation
Tusk: All member states and EU institutions must show readiness for compromise in UK renegotiationEuropean Council President Donald Tusk yesterday wrote to EU leaders in response to Prime Minister David Cameron’s formal presentation of his EU renegotiation demands last month. In terms of specific reform objectives, Tusk wrote that the EU is...
US-Soviet Relations on ‘Hair-Trigger’ Alert in 1983
Britain wants to bar the release of papers showing a close call between the Cold War superpowers. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Moscow’s Battle against Time
By Mykola Kapitonenko Among many other things Russia is trying to achieve in Ukraine, it is desperately struggling to turn back time. Preferably to the good old days when supplies of natural gas to its neighbors energy inefficient economies were successfully converted into political control, or – even better – when military dominance secured...
