Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kabardino-Balkarian Experts Say Sources of Instability in Republic Are Unchanged
In an interview with the website Kavkazskaya Politika, Kabardino-Balkaria’s Deputy Interior Minister Kazbek Tatuev described the republic’s ongoing security dilemmas. According to the official, the underground movement in the republic is structured according to administrative divisions featuring an amir and his deputies (naibs) in...
Belgrade, Moscow Deepen Relations as EU Offers Serbia Further European Integration
Historic ties between Russia and Serbia are deepening even as the European Union attempts to improve its own relationship with Belgrade. Since the beginning of the year, Russia has sought to increase its trade with Serbia, while the latter has pursued Russian assistance in upgrading its military capabilities (see EDM, September 8). Consequently,...
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...
Will Saakashvili’s Defeat in Odesa Be His Ukrainian Waterloo?
Odesa Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov trounced Solidarity Party’s Sasha Borovik by 53-26 percent in Ukraine’s local elections October 25. Observers reported carousel voting, multiple voting lists, exit poll workers agitating for candidates, and a suspiciously slow vote count.The race for Odesa mayor was a proxy war between Oblast Governor...
Religion & Liberty: Kitchen Redemption
Brandon Chrostowski demonstrates a cooking technique at Edwins Early in October, I took a trip to Cleveland to learn about Edwins Leadership and Restaurant Institute and its founder, Brandon Chrostowski. Edwins is the “teaching hospital” of restaurants. It teaches people with zero hospitality experience the basics of restaurant business through a...
Under the sea: Russia, China and American control of the waterways
The USS Roosevelt sails the South China Sea. US Navy/ReutersIn the summer of 2007, in a bizarre incident shown live on Russian television, scientists accompanied by a couple of senior politicians descended 4,300 meters to the floor of the Arctic Ocean in two Mir mini submarines. Divers then planted a Russian flag on the seabed, and Russia...
A Close (and Surprisingly Positive) Encounter with Odesa’s New Police
The reorganization and reform of Ukraine’s catastrophically corrupt police force was the top priority when President Petro Poroshenko appointed Eka Zguladze first deputy Interior Minister of Ukraine. Poroshenko wants to emulate the relative success that Georgia’s Rose Revolution reformers garnered in modernizing their small...
Failing on the Ukrainian Battlefield, Russia Turns to Terrorism
To understand how Russia conducts its foreign policy, simply look at what the Kremlin accuses everyone else of doing. Unlike the Soviet Union, which operated under a coherent ideology, the Russian government under President Vladimir Putin seems to believe that everybody is a cynical power player, and that the West is simply hypocritical about it....
Reuters Outs Putin’s Daughter
Mathematician-dancer’s partner is son of Putin associate, does business with other oligarchs. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russian Artist Fights FSB With Fire
Pyotr Pavlensky, notorious for radical protests, targets KGB successor over reign of ‘terror.’ …read more Source: Transitions Online...
