Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Moscow’s Battle against Time
By Mykola Kapitonenko Among many other things Russia is trying to achieve in Ukraine, it is desperately struggling to turn back time. Preferably to the good old days when supplies of natural gas to its neighbors energy inefficient economies were successfully converted into political control, or – even better – when military dominance secured...
Hard Choice for Kazakhstan as Russia-Turkey Spat Deepens
On November 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared economic sanctions against Turkey. Four days earlier, the latter had downed a Russian Su-24 fighter jet near the border with Syria after it illegally entered Turkish airspace, according to both Ankara and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The sanctions package prohibits the...
Moscow’s Economic Sanctions Against Turkey Will Have Negative Impact on North Caucasus
Moscow’s reaction to the downing of a Russian military jet over Turkey has been unusually harsh. In his address to the Russian parliament on December 3, President Vladimir Putin continued his diatribe against Turkey’s leadership. “If anybody thinks that after having committed a cowardly military crime—killing our people—they will get...
Ukraine Reform Monitor: December 2015
Ukraine held local elections and made modest reform progress, while the economy improved slowly. But there are renewed concerns about the ceasefire in the east. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Take It to the Next Level: Create a Biden-Poroshenko Commission
Ukraine has made great strides in the last two years. The democratic and pro-Western Ukrainian leaders that gained power in February 2014 have returned democracy to Ukraine and have conducted three free and fair elections at all levels of power. The Ukrainian nation has come together and successfully defended itself against Russian aggression....
Memo to our next president
Dear Mr./Madam President:It is January 2017: You have before you a critical opportunity — and an imperative — to renew America’s leadership role in world affairs. History has shown that when the president makes a case to the American people, they listen. You will hear that now is a moment of unprecedented division and partisan anger. You...
Biden Seeks to Reassure Ukraine
The American vice-president carries a message to Kyiv that Washington wants to see more progress in fighting corruption. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Modernity Versus Archaics
In the latest years globalization has made great progress, having left critically little space for archaics. The scared archaic societies have demonstrated an aggressive reaction, considering (not without reason) the current state of affairs in the world as a threat to their existence. This situation is particularly exemplified by Russia and the...
Enforceability of Emergency Arbitrator Awards in Ukraine
In an earlier post CIS Arbitration Forum reported about three investment treaty claims against Ukraine in gas sector, initiated this year. In one of them a UK-based energy company JKX Oil & Gas and its Dutch and Ukrainian subsidiaries Poltava Gas B.V. and JV Poltava Petroleum Company obtained first-ever emergency arbitration award against...
Gilward Investments B.V. v. Ukraine
The case is pending (following the resignation of arbitrator Philippe Sands, Rolf Knieper (German) accepts his appointment as arbitrator, appointed by the Respondent on November 13, 2015 …read more Source: CIS Arbitration...
