Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Two Minutes of Hate For Belarus
With Belarusian president Aleksander Lukashenko elected to a fifth term in office on Sunday, the ritual western hate-fest against the former Soviet Republic shifts into high gear. The regular march of western journalists to Minsk to report on “Europe’s last dictatorship,” has already begun, with Buzzfeed’s Max Seddon being...
Moscow and Tokyo Come No Closer to Burying the Hatchet
Despite Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s hopeful meeting, on October 4, with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, as well as Abe’s talks with President Vladimir Putin, at the United Nations, the week before (Kyodo, October 6), no prospect for normalizing Russo-Japanese relations currently exists. During...
Russian Hybrid War, Euro-Hybrid Democracy in Ukraine’s East (Part One)
Moscow has instructed the Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” (DPR-LPR) to postpone the local “elections” that were scheduled for October 18 and November 1 in that Russian-controlled territory of Ukraine. Those elections would have been staged separately from Ukraine’s own local elections, which are scheduled to be held...
Weekend catch-up: Putin’s grand strategy, Obama in Syria, Kunduz, Malabar and more
[youtube:mv3QNyxeXKk] With Russia’s ongoing air strikes in Syria, including land-attack cruise missiles fired from Russian naval vessels in the Caspian Sea, Kyle Wilson has written a three-part series on Putin’s strategy and motivations: Putin has shown a gift for improvisation, especially as regards extracting advantage from...
Russia’s Syrian entanglement: Can the West sit back and watch?
For observers who are confined by the boundaries of conventional strategic sense, every day of Russia’s military intervention in Syria brings fresh surprises. Indiscriminate strikes against Turkey-backed and CIA-trained opposition groups (which could not possibly be mistaken for ISIS) were followed by deliberate violations of Turkey’s...
Belarussian Writer Wins Nobel Prize, Denounces Russia Over Ukraine
October 9, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Putin’s Syria plans have forced Obama to face a terrible dilemma
“It’s not that simple, Barack.” Reuters/Kevin LamarqueRussia’s nascent Syria campaign has certainly gotten off to a rocky start: international scepticism of its aims, provocative forays into Turkish airspace, missiles apparently crashing in Iran. But with the Pentagon abandoning a key programme to train the Syrian rebels...
Russia Dominates NATO Talks
Allies send more troops to the eastern border to create ‘more persistent presence.’ …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Belarus votes – and this time it matters
Ukraine, economics and diminishing Russian subsidies cast a long shadow over elections in “Europe’s last dictatorship”. …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
No New Theme Music for Game of Thrones
Rumors of a new Russian soundtrack for the show have been greatly exaggerated. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
