Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Latvia Defends Planned Fence Along Border with Russia
Latvia’s government has announced it would build a new nigh-tech fence along the border with Russia, but took pains to say it was not aimed at harming the already strained relations between the countries. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
CIS Leaders Agree to Extend Military Cooperation
Leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have signed 17 agreements on military cooperation. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russian Analytical Digest No 173: Russia and Regime Security
This issue of the RAD contains four articles focusing on regime security in Russia and the Kremlin’s foreign policy. More specifically, the articles discuss 1) why Russia’s more assertive foreign policy on Ukraine and Syria should be interpreted in light of questions of Russian domestic security and the Putin regime’s wider...
Lohvinau: Publisher Who Defies the Lukashenka Regime
Svetlana Alexievich may won international acclaim as the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, but at home only a single publisher has braved government hurdles to print the laureate’s literature. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Digging Up Ukraine’s Deep State
Ukraine’s civil society and young generation are determined to make the ongoing reforms to the country’s state institutions irreversible. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The Old Guard Digs In; Time to Bury Them
The news out of Kyiv the last few weeks has been depressing. For those familiar with Ukraine — depressingly familiar. The country’s old guard, the former Soviet officials who have run the country into the ground over two decades and sparked two revolutions, reared their ugly heads once more. The war in East appears to […] …read more...
Ukraine’s New Constitution: Devolution of Powers and the Rule of Law
04NovInvitation OnlyResearch EventUkraine’s New Constitution: Devolution of Powers and the Rule of Law4 Nov 2015 – 11:00 to 12:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London Russia and Eurasia Programme, Ukraine ForumParticipantsNataliia Agafonova, Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Head, Sub-Committee on...
Minister for Foreign Affairs The Hon Julie Bishop MP Address to the AIIA
Distinguished guests, ambassadors, my colleague the Honourable Bronwyn Bishop, ladies and gentlemen, it is an absolute pleasure to be here today among so many respected names in foreign affairs. The Australian Institute of International Affairs is one of our nation’s premier think tanks and contributes a great deal to the development and...
Charting Japan’s Arctic strategy
Event Information October 19, 2015 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDTSaul/Zilkha Rooms Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036 Register for the Event Japan’s presence in the Arctic is not new, but it has been limited mostly to scientific research. Japan has stepped up its engagement after it gained observer status...
This is how to rebuild America’s mighty military
The Obama Administration has pronounced itself shocked and surprised by Vladimir Putin’s Syrian gambit, just as they did when Russian troops and proxies annexed Crimea. Just as the George W. Bush Administration did when Putin moved into two provinces of Georgia in 2008.Indeed, much of the history of the post-Cold War world can be told in...
