Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Cuba: Russia’s Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier
Despite all of the other major foreign policy issues on its agenda, Russia has not forgotten Cuba. Indeed, it appears that Moscow’s strategic interest in this Caribbean island country has grown steadily, despite reported stagnation in their bilateral economic ties (House.gov, October 22). Recently, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry...
Ukraine’s long Russian entanglement
Marvin Kalb, a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings and veteran journalist, discusses his new book “Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine and the New Cold War” (Brookings Institution Press, 2015). “I think since 1991 at the end of the Soviet Union, the end of Communism as a global philosophy, Ukrainians have come to understand that...
Breaking: Obama Puts US Boots in Syria – Where is Congress?
“I will not put US boots on the ground in Syria.” That was President Obama’s unequivocal statement to the American people just two years ago when he first planned to bomb Syria. He has repeated the statement several times, as he has also repeated his promise that he “will not pursue a long air campaign” in Syria and...
Ukraine’s long Russian entaglement
Marvin Kalb, a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings and veteran journalist, discusses his new book “Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine and the New Cold War” (Brookings Institution Press, 2015). “I think since 1991 at the end of the Soviet Union, the end of Communism as a global philosophy, Ukrainians have come to understand that...
Blast at East Ukraine Arms Depot Kills Two
Cease-fire holds as an OSCE monitor is sacked over anti-Ukrainian tirade and two Ukrainians go on trial in a Chechen courtroom for murder. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
In the postponement of the “election” in the so called LPR and DPR, Russian position is clearly visible
Deputy Director General, Director of Political and Legal Programmes at the Razumkov Centre Yuriy Yakymenko told the Glavred website about the actual causes of the decision to postpone the election in the so-called LPR and DPR. The decision to postpone the “election» in the LPR and DPR is not an independent decision of the militants but the...
Early parliamentary election in Ukraine will only hinder modernization of the country
Deputy Director General, Director of Political and Legal Programmes at the Razumkov Centre Yuriy Yakymenko told the website Glavnoe about the threats of early parliamentary election in Ukraine. In Ukraine, certain political parties, and financial and industrial groups are trying to provoke early parliamentary election. Ukraine does not need early...
Vitaly Klitschko: My Vision For Ukraine
October 30, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Moldova Faces Long, Hot Winter After Government Falls
Shadow of massive bank fraud hangs over the country’s liberal parties. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Letter to Congress on ongoing crisis in Ukraine
October 29, 2015 The Honorable Thad Cochran, Committee on Appropriations U.S. Senate Washington, D.C., 20510 The Honorable Barbara Mikulski Ranking Member Committee on Appropriations U.S. Senate Washington, D.C., 20510 The Honorable Hal Rogers Chairman Committee on Appropriations U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C., 20515 The Honorable...
