Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
IAAF Names Team to Monitor Russian Athletics
Runners accused of doping in sensational report say they’ll sue WADA and a German broadcaster for defamation. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia’s perhaps-not-real super torpedo
On November 10, a Russian television broadcast of a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and some of his senior military officers revealed a “secret” plan for a long-range, nuclear-armed torpedo called Status-6. The broadcast on state-run Channel One showed a diagram of the torpedo, filmed over the shoulder of a Russian officer. According to...
EU Set to Launch Ukraine Trade Pact, Poroshenko Says
Attempts at ‘modern, efficient’ economic reform have been hampered by pervasive corruption, cronyism. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Paris attacks will probably intensify involvement of Western coalition in Syria
Co-director of Foreign Affairs and International Security Programmes at the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk was invited to the Ukraine Today studio to discuss the consequences of tragic terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday November 13th. I do not think that terrorists aimed to kill any particular number of people in Paris last Friday November...
United With Putin Against Terror?
The attacks in Paris have opened the possibility of a rapprochement between Russia and the West. If Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to cooperate with the West in Ukraine and Syria, the West should not rule out offering some concessions in return. …read more Source: Project Syndicate (Czech...
Time Not Ripe for Closer Russian Ties, EU Hawks Warn
Bloc to review sanctions against Russia in coming weeks amid signs of a rapprochement. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Belarusian Analysts Debate Implications of Paris Attacks
Two foremost Belarusian opposition-minded political analysts, Yury Drakakhrust of Radio Liberty and Tut.by along with Alexander Klaskovsky of Belarus’s non-state press agency BelaPan, recently published thought-provoking articles about the potential impact on Belarus of the November 13 “black Friday” terrorist attack (BFTA) in Paris. Both...
Russia Proposes Restructuring Of $3bn Ukraine Debt
November 17, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political independence. But today’s conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine’s existence as a separate nation. Situated between Central Europe and Russia, Ukraine was shaped by the empires that have used it as a...
Learning on the Job
For the past five years Europe has been confronted with one fundamental crisis after the other – and each has pushed or pulled Berlin to the center of the Union’s response. When the sovereign debt crisis hit a number of member states in early 2010 and put the single currency under existential threat, Berlin unequivocally became ringleader....
