Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Putin’s Crimean gamble: Russia, Ukraine, and the new Cold War
Event Information October 26, 2015 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDTFalk Auditorium Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036 Register for the Event Since the time of Catherine the Great, Crimea has been a global tinderbox. Most recently, the world was stunned when the forces of Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded...
The Older, Better Canada is Back Again
I used to call Canada “the land that time forgot.” While the rest of the world lurched from crisis to crisis, Canada remained peaceful, humane, prosperous, progressive, and famously polite, a sort of North American Scandinavia. Polls showed that Canada, for all its blandness and low profile, was one of the world’s most respected...
Kazakhstan Walking Tightrope Amid Russia-Ukraine Divide
At a time when relations between Russia and the West are at an all-time low because of Moscow’s meddling in Ukraine and Syria, Kazakhstan is finding it increasingly complicated to preserve the balance. In the span of a week this month (October 2015), Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev met, in Astana, with his visiting counterparts...
Belov and the Government’s Ban of ‘the Russians’
A new milestone has passed in the trial of Alexander Belov, the outspoken former leader of the ultra-right Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) and a current member of the coordinating council for the Russian extreme nationalist opposition. The court completed its investigation, on September 8, and extended Belov’s house arrest for...
Democracy and Disorientation: Ukraine Votes in Local Elections
Ukrainians will go to the polls on October 25 to choose their mayors and local council deputies. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Netanyahu, the Grand Mufti and the Holocaust: why it is important to get the historical facts right
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, met with Adolf Hitler in 1941. Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1987-004-09A, Amin al Husseini und Adolf Hitler” by Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1987-004-09A / Heinrich Hoffmann, CC BY-SAIn a speech to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem on October 20, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused...
High Turnout of Grumpy Voters Expected in Ukraine Elections
Residents of rebel-held areas and many internally displaced people can’t vote in the third round of nationwide elections since the Maidan uprising. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Norway May Turn Back Bicycle-Mounted Asylum Seekers
Is Oslo’s new policy a sign of warming relations with Moscow or ‘Russophobia’? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Imperial Gamble Doesn’t Pay Off: New Book Gets Ukraine’s History Wrong
In his new book, Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine and the New Cold War, the renowned American journalist Marvin Kalb touches on an issue outside his traditional area of expertise in domestic politics: the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and its implications for US-Russia relations. …read more Source: Atlantic...
The migration of Ukrainians in times of crisis
The year 2015 brought a rapid surge in the number of Ukrainians migrating to the EU, again mainly to Poland. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
