Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine to Suspend Trade With Crimea in 30 Days: PM Yatseniuk
December 16, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Russia Searches Homes of More Ukrainian Library Staff
Library director Natalia Sharina could get five years for ‘inciting hatred’ through books by a banned Ukrainian ultranationalist. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Dear Facebook, Please Don’t Hand Our Data to The Kremlin
Activists are calling for the world’s biggest tech companies to resist Vladimir Putin’s demand that they their host servers – and users’ personal data – in Russia. From the Guardian. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Meeting with delegation of Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington, DC)
24 November 2015: a delegation of the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington, USA) led by Mr. Andrew Selee, Executive Vice President, visited the Razumkov Centre. The delegation included representatives of the Center’s department, the Kennan Institute: Mr. Matthew Rojansky, Director, and Ms. Kateryna Smagliy, Director of the Kyiv office. The...
Meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Ukraine
25 November 2015: a meeting was held at the Centre between representatives of the Razumkov Centre and a delegation of the Embassy of Canada to Ukraine. The Razumkov Centre was represented by: Anatoliy Rachok, Director General; Yuriy Yakymenko, Deputy Director General for Analytical Work, Director of Political and Legal Programmes; Viktor...
Participation in the Parliament-Civil Society Platform
27 November 2015: Viktor Musiyaka, Research Fellow of the Razumkov Centre, took part in the Parliament-Civil Society Platform and spoke at the expert debate on the panel for Constitutional Amendments Regarding the Judiciary: Overview of the Key Novels. The speech contained opinions and commentaries regarding a number of provisions of the...
The Razumkov Centre Newsletter №28
This issue contains articles and interviews of the Razumkov Centre’s experts, dealing with most topical issues in Ukraine’s current affairs. In particular — domestic politics, security sector, the situation in the Ukrainian economy and energy sector. Read the Razumkov Centre Newsletter №28 …read more Source: Razumkov...
The EU is expected to approve vise-free regime with Ukraine from the second half of 2016
Kyiv is now awaiting the EU Commission’s final report on the results of Ukraine’s visa liberalization action plan. The report, which is expected to be released in December, then has to be followed by a political decision by the EU on whether to rescind visas requirements for Ukrainian citizens for short-term travel to the EU, writes...
China to Build Hongdu Light Attack Aircraft in Ukraine Next Year
When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed in December 1991, its integrated military-industrial complex was shattered and split up among 15 newly independent countries. Ukraine received many significant assets, including top-notch fighter and aircraft plants as well as the USSR’s most advanced shipyards at Mykolaiv, where...
Putin Challenges NATO Over Turkey
Despite both the ongoing tensions in Ukraine as well as Russia’s out-of-area air campaign in Syria, much of the focus of the Russian political-military elite is currently on Turkey, which Russian propaganda has demonized following the November 24 downing of the Su-24M over the Turkish-Syrian border area. President Vladimir Putin authorized...