Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russian Pilot: Turkish Jets Fired Without Warning
Russia slaps restrictions on agricultural imports in first concrete action against Ankara. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Crimea is left without power
Electricity supplies from mainland Ukraine to Crimea were completely severed overnight on 21 and 22 November. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Ukrainian power plants have at least 2.3 million tons of coal in storage
The deliberate blackout, caused on Nov. 21 when saboteurs destroyed pylons carrying electricity from the mainland Ukraine to the Crimea, has left more than half of peninsula’s two million people without power, the Kyiv Post writes. Viktor Logatsky, an energy expert from the Razumkov Centrе, voiced the concern that Russia might order the...
Warsaw Repatriates Ethnic Poles From Eastern Ukraine
Another 188 people have arrived in Poland from the war-torn Donetsk region. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia, Turkey and the US: Between the Terrible and the Catastrophic
The downing of Russia’s plane by Turkish military forces over the skies of the Syrian-Turkish border has added yet another layer of complexity to the vortex of conflict in the Middle East. Most of the prior concern had focused on the prospect of the US clashing with Russia over the skies of Syria. But an October agreement between the two...
Turkey’s downing of Russian plane: Russia was warned but Turkey may have over-reacted
The downing of a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 is awkward timing. Signs of a rapprochement in tensions between the West and Russia looked like genuine cooperation was underway in Syria. Russia had stepped up hits directed at ISIS and related infrastructure, and Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the Russian navy to treat France like an...
Russia, Turkey and the US: between the terrible and the catastrophic
The Turkish Embassy in Moscow under siege. Sergei Karpukhin/ReutersThe downing of Russia’s plane by Turkish military forces over the skies of the Syrian-Turkish border has added yet another layer of complexity to the vortex of conflict in the Middle East. Most of the prior concern had focused on the prospect of the US clashing with Russia...
Russo-Turkish Tensions Since the Start of the Russian Air Campaign
Russia and Turkey have long been at odds over Syria, with Moscow backing President Bashar al Assad and Ankara supporting the opposition to overthrow him. Tensions increased dramatically with the start of the Russian air campaign on September 30. The Turkish shoot-down of a Russian combat aircraft on November 24 is an escalation in this tense...
Nato Should Not Risk a Wrong Turn Over Turkey-and Ukraine
Recent events in Turkey and Ukraine have exposed serious miscalculations in the West’s handling of Russia. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Ukraine Closes Airspace To All Russian Planes
November 25, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
