Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Global Militarisation Index 2015
“The multiple and complex conflicts across the region are a key factor behind the build-up and modernisation of the armed forces,” Jan Grebe and Max M. Mutschler explain the ranking of the GMI in the Middle East. The authors point out that Syria, also ranked amongst the Top 10 in recent years, is missing in this year’s GMI. This is due to...
The Militarization of Crimea under Russian Occupation
This brief argues that the Kremlin has tightened its grip on Crimea while the world has shifted its attention to Syria and elsewhere. Indeed, Moscow’s mass relocation of Russian military servicemen to the peninsula is just one case in point. It has 1) spurred housing shortages and massive infrastructure projects, and 2) complicated what the...
Embattled Russian NGOs Propose Forming Lobby Group
Labeled ‘foreign agents,’ ‘undesirable,’ and threatened with closure, pressure groups mull creating a union to protect their common interests. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Digital Diplomacy links: Fighting ISIS online, G20 social media, Indian emojis and more
Once a month The Interpreter publishes Digital Diplomacy links. As Australian digital diplomacy strives to catch-up to the rest of the world, these links highlight the most creative and effective ways in which countries are leveraging the internet for foreign policy gain. A brief history of online trolling between Western and Russian diplomats. A...
Turkey Downs a Russian Jet: RUSI Responds
RUSI experts offered their responses to the downing of a Russian jet by the Turkish military on 24 November 2015.The Pot Boils OverMichael Stephens, Research Fellow for Middle East Studies at RUSI, argues the shooting will have serious consequences for Russo-Turkish relations, relations between NATO and Russia, and the ongoing conflict in...
The next war will be an information war, and we’re not ready for it
Aaron AnsarovIn the 21st century the familiar form of warfare in which physical damage is meted out against the opponent’s military forces and infrastructure has become only one form of attack. Instead, states are increasingly launching non-lethal attacks against an enemy’s information systems – this is the rise of information...
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...
