Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
US Military Presence in Central and Eastern Europe
This report examines US military activities in Europe, and particularly Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), that have taken place since Russia’s intervention in Ukraine in 2014 and the subsequent breakdown of relations between Moscow and the West. More specifically, the author examines 1) US deployments to the CEE following Moscow’s...
Paramilitaries Growing in EU States Bordering Russia
Volunteers and conscripts are an ever-larger component of Baltic militaries. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Post-Soviet Leaders Gather in Tense Tajikistan
Ten-day manhunt fails to locate accused ‘coup’ leader Nazarzoda. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia Raps Google for App ‘Abuse’
Full impact of finding expected to emerge in 10 days. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Minsk Trap
Kirk Bennett The Ukrainian parliamentary debate on constitutional reform to promote decentralization has occurred under enormous pressure from the West for Kyiv to uphold its end of the Minsk Agreements, negotiated in September 2014 and February 2015 to secure a ceasefire in the Russo-Ukrainian War. The fatal clashes outside the Ukrainian Rada on...
EU member states fail to agree on binding refugee quotas as German Interior Minister suggests cutting EU funding to those countries not doing enough
EU member states fail to agree on binding refugee quotas as German Interior Minister suggests cutting EU funding to those countries not doing enoughDuring a bad-tempered six hour meeting yesterday, EU Interior Ministers failed to reach an agreement on the European Commission’s proposal for mandatory binding quotas to relocate 120,000...
BBC vs RT: Media wars, diplomacy and owning the message
Worried about the increased power and reach of state-owned broadcasters such as the Kremlin-backed Russia Today, it appears the BBC hopes to stem the trend of endless rounds of funding cuts by seeking government money to create a new channel to broadcast into Russia. It’s also proposing services aimed at reaching North Korea and to increase...
China, Belarus Deepen Ties
Two countries on opposite ends of Eurasia are drawing closer, courtesy of the skein of railways slowly snaking across this massive region in the form of an evolving “Iron Silk Road.” While attending Chinese commemorations of the end of World War II in the Pacific, Belarus’s President Alyaksandr Lukashenka held bilateral talks with his...
Russian Presidential Human Rights Council Member Proposes Accepting Several Thousand Circassian Refugees From Syria
On September 10, Maksim Shevchenko, a member of the Council for Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, unexpectedly announced that the Council would ask President Vladimir Putin to allow the repatriation of Circassian Syrians to the North Caucasus. In an interview with the newspaper Izvestia, Shevchenko said he had drafted a...
