Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Making the Most of the European Neighbourhood Policy Toolbox
BRUSSELS—The review of the European Neighbourhood Policy, unveiled in Brussels on November 18 after a year-long process of reflection and consultation with a broader community of stakeholders in Europe and its neighboring countries, did not offer many surprises. While acknowledging many of the ENP’s flaws and the changed domestic and...
France’s Perspectives and Priorities for the European Neighborhood Policy
Photo: (BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/GettyImages) PARIS—The European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) remains largely absent from the public and media foreign policy discussions in France. However, the recent security crises in Ukraine and the Mediterranean, the refugee crisis, and the latest terrorist attack in Paris have underlined the need to improve EU...
IAAF Names Team to Monitor Russian Athletics
Runners accused of doping in sensational report say they’ll sue WADA and a German broadcaster for defamation. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia’s perhaps-not-real super torpedo
On November 10, a Russian television broadcast of a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and some of his senior military officers revealed a “secret” plan for a long-range, nuclear-armed torpedo called Status-6. The broadcast on state-run Channel One showed a diagram of the torpedo, filmed over the shoulder of a Russian officer. According to...
EU Set to Launch Ukraine Trade Pact, Poroshenko Says
Attempts at ‘modern, efficient’ economic reform have been hampered by pervasive corruption, cronyism. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Paris attacks will probably intensify involvement of Western coalition in Syria
Co-director of Foreign Affairs and International Security Programmes at the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk was invited to the Ukraine Today studio to discuss the consequences of tragic terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday November 13th. I do not think that terrorists aimed to kill any particular number of people in Paris last Friday November...
United With Putin Against Terror?
The attacks in Paris have opened the possibility of a rapprochement between Russia and the West. If Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to cooperate with the West in Ukraine and Syria, the West should not rule out offering some concessions in return. …read more Source: Project Syndicate (Czech...
Time Not Ripe for Closer Russian Ties, EU Hawks Warn
Bloc to review sanctions against Russia in coming weeks amid signs of a rapprochement. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Belarusian Analysts Debate Implications of Paris Attacks
Two foremost Belarusian opposition-minded political analysts, Yury Drakakhrust of Radio Liberty and Tut.by along with Alexander Klaskovsky of Belarus’s non-state press agency BelaPan, recently published thought-provoking articles about the potential impact on Belarus of the November 13 “black Friday” terrorist attack (BFTA) in Paris. Both...
Russia Proposes Restructuring Of $3bn Ukraine Debt
November 17, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
