Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
In Foreign Affairs and Politics, Belarus Enters Uncharted Waters
On September 19, following his one-on-one meeting in Sochi with Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin issued an order to launch negotiations with Belarus about the creation of a new Russian airbase near Bobruisk (Tut.by, September 19). Vigorous discussion in Belarus, this past week, about the...
Links and quotations for September 23, 2015: Kids won’t eat government-mandated fruit, Sweden’s six hour workday, and more
Sweden is experimenting with the six-hour workday in its senior care facilities… Even there, there are major questions whether it’s workable. That and more, including how you can give kids an apple but not make them eat, and how history illustrates donor politics as part and parcel of human progress. Printing press, anyone?For China, a...
Soaring New Mosque Opens in Russian Capital
Lack of worship space forces many of Moscow’s 2 million Muslims to pray in the streets. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Savchenko Blasts Prosecution as Her Trial Begins
Russia accuses Ukrainian military pilot in murder of two journalists the eastern war zone. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Human Rights Abuses in Russian-Occupied Crimea
This report documents the state of human rights observance in Crimea since the peninsula was annexed by Russia in March 2014. More specifically, the author examines the extent of discriminatory and repressive policies that have been adopted against the ethnic religious and national groups that opposed the annexation, including the indigenous...
Finland’s GDP will increase a bit this year – next year growth is expected to accelerate slightly
Finland’s GDP will increase by 0.2 per cent in 2015, after which growth will accelerate to 1 per cent in 2016 and to 1.3 per cent in 2017. Export- and investment-led growth requires the continuation of wage moderation and an improvement in competitiveness and recovery of export markets in the expected manner. The euro area continues its...
Explainer: what diplomatic power does a pope really have?
They see me rollin’… Reuters/Tony GentilePope Francis is part of the way through his much-anticipated visit to Cuba and the US, which he is visiting for the first time. He is following in the footsteps of his immediate predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, who visited Cuba in 2012 and expressed his opposition to the US trade embargo. Now...
Russia’s War against Terror: the North Caucasus and Beyond
While the West is anxiously following Russia’s moves in Syria, the Russian government has once again declared its readiness to support the global struggle against terrorists. Dr. Elena Pokalova will address Russia’s experience combatting terrorism in the North Caucasus, as well as the Kremlin’s participation in the global war on...
The Legacy of Political Violence Across Generations: Crimean Tatars in Contemporary Russia
How does a family’s past experience of political violence shape the attitudes and behavior of younger generations? Leonid Peisakhin will address this question by examining the findings of a 2014 multigenerational survey of Crimean Tatars, considered in the context of the deportation of Crimean Tatars to Central Asia in 1944. Directions:...
Could Russia Have Had a Role in Recent PKK Attacks on Turkish Pipelines?
On August 25, an explosion occurred on the South Caucasus Pipeline (also known as the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline), which transports natural gas from Azerbaijan, through Georgia, and into Turkey (Anadolu Agency, August 25). According to the Turkish press, the militant organization the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) was behind this...
