Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The bumpy road. Difficult reform process in Ukraine
Over the past few months Kyiv has initiated a few major changes, but the delays in the reform process are growing. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Arranging the European symphony
Most university seminars on the European Union begin with a seemingly simple, yet in truth remarkably complex exercise: defining Europe. Some answers can be quite creative, ranging from definitions based on who partakes in the Eurovision Song Contest to geographic, cultural, as well as political definitions. Very clearly, Europe means different...
Georgia Strips Saakashvili of Citizenship
Now a Ukrainian citizen, the ex-president says the decision exposes the authorities as ‘scared and failed.’ …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia Probes Khodorkovsky Link to 1998 Murder
Ex-Yukos chief’s father was questioned in June after investigators said new evidence emerged about the killing. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Tusk: All member states and EU institutions must show readiness for compromise in UK renegotiation
Tusk: All member states and EU institutions must show readiness for compromise in UK renegotiationEuropean Council President Donald Tusk yesterday wrote to EU leaders in response to Prime Minister David Cameron’s formal presentation of his EU renegotiation demands last month. In terms of specific reform objectives, Tusk wrote that the EU is...
US-Soviet Relations on ‘Hair-Trigger’ Alert in 1983
Britain wants to bar the release of papers showing a close call between the Cold War superpowers. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
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...
