Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Reviving America’s nuclear culture
Of all the exhibits of horror in Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Museum—twisted bicycles, melted eyeglasses, burned rubble—one stopped me in my tracks. It was a small section of wall and steps. On it, a dark half-oval is burned into the stone, with vertical shading on the steps. It is the silhouette of a human being, vaporized by the atomic...
IMR to Present Report ‘An Invasion by Any Other Name: Russia’s Dirty War in Ukraine’ in Washington, D.C.
On September 17, the Institute of Modern Russia and the Atlantic Council will co-host the presentation of a new report titled “An Invasion by Any Other Name: Russia’s Dirty War in Ukraine,” prepared by the editorial team of The Interpreter, an IMR special project. The report offers evidence proving that Russia is behind the unrest in the...
If Russian Soldiers Aren’t Dying In Ukraine, Why Did Putin Make Casualty Stats A State Secret?
Image credit: istockAnalysis and Commentaryvia ForbesIf you want to enrage Vladimir Putin, publish an article on Russian casualties in Ukraine. Putin unequivocally declared, on his Direct Line broadcast to the Russian people on April 16, that “the question of whether Russian troops are present in Ukraine…I can tell you outright and unequivocally...
Violence on Kiev Streets Dims Prospects for Peace in East Ukraine
September 3, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine: Costs of Conflict
September 3, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Lviv Welcomes Crimean Tatar Community With Open Arms
The Russian annexation of Crimea in March 2014 is widely regarded as a tragedy for Crimean Tatars. But for Adile Namazova, it was also a professional catastrophe. A recent university graduate with near flawless English, Namazova, 22, had been working as a language tutor before annexation. But once Crimea changed hands, travelers stopped coming,...
Russia, Belarus and Serbia Stage Anti-Protestor “Slavic Brotherhood” Drills
The countries’ airborne forces will work on preventing anti-government ‘Maidan’-style riots …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Europe’s Soft-Power Pull is Still Working, if Unevenly, in the Western Balkans
VIENNA—Enlargement of the European Union is a hard sell these days. The member states have turned their gaze inwards as they confront a protracted period of low or no economic growth, not to mention the unfolding migration crisis. Nonetheless, leaders of the EU and Western Balkans states met again last week in Vienna as part of the “Berlin...
Ukraine Crisis Update: September 3, 2015
Download the PDF Russian-backed separatists initially abided by a short-term ceasefire beginning September 1, which was designed to reduce the number of civilian casualties during the first week of the Ukrainian school year. Tags Ukraine Project UkrainePromote …read more Source: Institute for the Study of...
Russia, Belarus and Serbia Staging Anti-Protestor “Slavic Brotherhood” Drills
The countries’ airborne forces will work on preventing anti-government ‘Maidan’-style riots …read more Source: Transitions Online...
