Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russia Security Update: November 11-18, 2015
Download the PDF Russia is attempting to align itself with France in the wake of ISIS’s terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13. Russia took steps to reassert its freedom of action in Syria as France expanded its anti-ISIS air campaign in response to the Paris attacks. On November 17, Russia launched air strikes from long-range strategic...
Human Rights on Occupied Territory: Case of Crimea Report at the UN headquarters and the U.S. Congress
Razom and Volya Institute for Contemporary Law and Society to collaborate in presenting the Human Rights on Occupied Territory: Case of Crimea Report at the UN headquarters and the U.S. Congress. New York, NY, November 30, 2015 – In the spring of 2015, an international team of lawyers, with the support and endorsement of the New York University...
Monitors Say Elections In Two Eastern Ukraine Cities Held Properly
November 30, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Russia Bans Soros Foundation as a ‘Threat To National Security And Constitutional Order’
Following Russia’s official retaliation to the Turkish downing of its jet a week ago, in which Putin issued an executive order limiting employment for Turkish workers, restricting Turkish organizations, and reducing the amount of bilateral trade with Ankara, perhaps a far more notable development took place earlier today when the Russian...
UKRAINE, SYRIA AND EUROPEAN SECURITY
By Kirk Bennett A recent flare-up notwithstanding, a stable ceasefire seems to be taking hold in the Donbas. Recognizing that a Russian knock-out blow in Ukraine is currently not in the cards, and stung to action by the steady weakening of the Assad regime in the Syrian war of attrition, Moscow has palpably cycled down […] …read more...
Dispatch from Ukraine: New politics vs Old Guard
A new generation of politicians is challenging the old order in Ukraine – their success is vital for the country’s democratic future …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
No Quick Fix for Blacked-out Crimea
Russian official concedes that completing an ‘energy bridge’ to the region could still take weeks. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia and Turkey: a long history of turbulent relations
Parkhet PPIn locking horns over Syria, Russia and Turkey are playing out the latest chapter in a rivalry that has spanned centuries. Since the 1600s the two have lurched between conflict and uneasy friendship. But the war of words that has erupted since Turkey shot down a Russian jet it claims entered its airspace this month has notched tensions...
Weekend catch-up: Turkey shoots down Russian jet, Turnbull and the Right, drone warfare, free-trade agreements and more
Earlier this week, a Turkish F-16 shot down a Russian Su-24 which Ankara said had violated its airspace near the Syrian border. A public relations and media struggle ensued, with both countries releasing their own versions of the Russian plane’s flight path. Turkey released audio recordings of its warnings to the fighter to turn away, and...
Moldovan Police: Paramilitary Band Planned Uprising
Group allegedly aimed to set up a breakaway territory like those in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
