Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Security sector of Ukraine is largely disordered and unworkable
The state-owned UkrOboronProm arms factory this year is expected to churn out 40 of its Oplot main battle tank, and next year will make 120. That’s a 2,300 percent increase over the five the factory produced last year, the Miami Herald writes. Despite the gains, Mykola Sunhurovskyi, the director of military programs at the Razumkov Center,...
Moldovan Justice: Fast and Furious
Politics make for strange bedfellows, but politicians of all stripes see one man, Vlad Plahotniuc, a billionaire ‘gray eminence’, as having orchestrated their arrests or prolonged detentions. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine: Cyberwar’s Hottest Front
November 10, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Zakarpattia-Together, But Separated
This commentary discusses the deteriorating political and security situation in Ukraine’s Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia) region, one of the poorest and most ethnically diverse in the country. The authors argue that, rather than fighting crime and corruption in the region, the Ukrainian central government has given its leader Viktor Baloha and...
Sports Anti-Doping Body Calls for Russia’s Suspension
Explosive report accuses Russia of running a ‘state-sponsored doping’ scheme. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Border and Migration Management in the East: The Cases of Norway and Poland
This paper uses case studies from Norway and Poland to discusses the migration and refugee situation in Eastern Europe. The authors pay special attention to the question of border management, including small border traffic and migration control, and to the gender dimension of migration. They also look at the increasing politicization of the...
SIPRI Yearbook 2014 launch
On November 9, 2015 Razumkov Centre presented the 15th edition of the Ukrainian version of the SIPRI Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security. SIPRI Yearbook 2014 covers the period up to the end of the year 2014 – the moment when the Russia-Ukraine crisis, which radically changed the European and global security environment...
Russian Analysts Call Ukrainian Involvement in the North Caucasus ‘Futile,’ but Gear up to Counter It
Russian experts have reacted to the recent establishment of a group in the Ukrainian parliament called “For the Free Caucasus.” One of them, Vladislav Gulevich, has predicted that the Ukrainian political forces that want to detach the North Caucasus from Russia will fail because Ukraine “has never had high-quality specialists on the Caucasus and...
Cooptation and Repression: The Kremlin’s Approach Russian Nationalists
The now-annual extreme-nationalist “Russian March” in Lublino (a working-class district in Moscow, populated mostly by ethnic Slavs), on November 4—National Unity Day—saw a sharply reduced number of marchers this year. Last Wednesday’s march in the Russian capital had only about 700 participants, whereas previous years’ marches had...
Can Washington move beyond “Ukraine fatigue” ?
Language English Chroniques américainesAs a result, the U.S. had to reaffirm its involvement in the security of its NATO and bilateral allies. Can the United States find ways forward to improve both the situation in Eastern Europe and its relationship with Russia? Military operations in Syria, now conducted by the two countries with a modicum of...
