Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine’s Naftohaz to Sue Russia Over Crimean Assets
The Ukrainian national oil and gas company, Naftohaz Ukrainy, plans to sue Russia over the assets lost in Crimea following the peninsula’s annexation by Russia last year, Naftohaz CEO Andry Kobolev said on November 4 (Interfax, November 4). The seizure by Russia of Chornomornaftohaz, Naftohaz’s subsidiary for oil and gas deposits in...
Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine
Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine presents four perspectives on the origins of the ongoing war in Ukraine that began in February 2014, concentrating on Russian motivations and intentions. What propelled Russia to send troops into Crimea and then declare that Crimea had formally chosen to “join” Russia? Why did the conflict spread to eastern...
FPI Resources on the Growing Crisis between Ukraine and Russia
…read more Source: Foreign Policy...
Ukraine Passes Anti-Discrimination Law
November 12, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
The EU leads boldly on Israeli-Palestinian peace
Yesterday, the European Union in its infinite wisdom decided to implement a demand that all products made in Israeli settlement the West Bank and Gaza be labeled. CNN explains:Labeling such goods as “product from Golan Heights” or “product from West Bank” would not be specific enough and therefore would not be acceptable, the commission said....
Eastern Ukraine Situation Worsening, Kyiv Says
Ukraine military, pro-Russian separatists accuse each other of escalating violence in Donetsk and Luhansk in defiance of ceasefire. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
How Ukraine’s Finance Chief Got Rich
Before becoming Ukraine’s Finance Minister last December, Natalie Jaresko collected $1.77 million in bonuses from a US-taxpayer-financed investment fund where her annual compensation was supposed to be limited to $150,000, according to financial documents filed with the US Internal Revenue Service this year. The near 12-fold discrepancy...
Seeing red over Chinese metal exports
The embers inside Europe’s second-largest blast furnace, at Redcar, in northeast England, will die. For 170 years this has the been world’s most storied steelworks. Plate-iron beams from Redcar undergird Sydney Harbour bridge. Now, it’s become a victim of ‘industrial vandalism’, according to the local...
Britain and the Spectre of Geopolitical Irrelevance
Transatlantic TakeLONDON—It is difficult to underestimate the impact of a new James Bond movie on the British psyche. The films, released now at three- or four-year intervals, give the fleeting sense that Britain still matters on the world stage. Yet Bond has long reflected something of a geopolitical fantasy; his enduring appeal based in part on...
Belarus and Published Opinion-Making
In early November, journalists and analysts convened in Tallinn, Estonia, for the fifth annual meeting of the “Rubicon” conference fully devoted to issues pertaining to Belarus. This year, the major topic was “Belarus as a factor of regional security and stability.” The participants were unable to come to a consensus on whether Belarusian...
