Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine’s Unlikely Partnership with China
Natalia Khyzhniak In July, the Financial Times reported the latest evidence of an unexpected new economic partnership. Ukraine is poised to become the largest exporter of corn to China – if it has not done so already — surpassing the United States, which traditionally has had a near monopoly those exports. (China, where meat consumption […]...
Kyiv Grounds Ukraine-Russia Flights
Move will backfire on Ukraine, Russian premier Medvedev warns. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Homeland, Snowden and fictional defences of the CIA
James Bond may be pro-Snowden but Carrie Mathison’s lot aren’t so sure. Channel 4This article contains spoilers about season five, episode three of Homeland. The battle for public opinion over whether former CIA employee Edward Snowden was right to blow the whistle and leak state secrets might just be won, not in the press or the US...
Ukrainian Sculptor Morphs Lenin Into Darth Vader
Star Wars characters make unsuccessful runs in local and regional elections. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
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...
