Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Government to propose new campaigning rules for EU referendum
Government to propose new campaigning rules for EU referendumThe Government is set to put forward changes to the arrangements for the referendum on Britain’s EU membership, in a bid to allay some MPs’ concerns about ensuring the vote is fair. Amendments being tabled to the EU Referendum Bill today are expected to address concern over...
Ukraine Coalition Weakened as Rightists Quit
Death toll rises to three after far-right groups assault parliament. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Survey Underlines Russian Suspicion of America
U.S. is ‘extremely hostile,’ most Russians believe. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine has to take all steps to declare that Russia is an occupier of Donbas
Six months after the latest Minsk agreement, to replace the first one that Russia violated as well, more than 1,000 others have been killed since Russia and Ukraine signed the “peace” deal, the Kyiv Post writes. Co-director of Foreign Affairs and Inernational Security Programmes at the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk said Ukraine hasn’t yet...
The Russian public’s ignorance allows Putin’s policies to flourish
Russia’s direct involvement in prosecuting its war against Ukraine is proven, as far as most in the West are concerned. But the Russian public is still oblivious to what’s going on, accepting official denials, more than a year after the fighting began, the Kyiv Post reports. Director of Military programmes at the Razumkov Centre...
Muzhenko lost the moral right to talk about military situation in Donbas
The chief of Ukraine’s Army General Staff has left many baffled after declaring that the destroyed village of Shyrokyne “has no military value” – after soldiers held positions there for months that they said were key to defending the strategic city of Mariupol, the Kyiv Post writes. Co-director of Foreign Affairs and International Security...
Ukraine Must Privatize Failing State-Owned Enterprises Quickly
Privatization has generated controversy in every post-communist country. Ministers of privatization are usually accused of heinous crimes, regardless of how impeccably they have performed their jobs. Yet privatization is vital for all such nations, not least for Ukraine. The goal must be to limit state-owned enterprises so that the private sector...
Russian Narrative of Ukraine Conflict Fails to Sway Opinions in Odesa
Eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region is strewn with remnants of Russian-made cartridges from AK-74U rifles, littered with the splintered, hollowed-out ruins of Russian-made BTR-80 armored personnel carriers, and scarred with the skeletons of Russian T-74B battle tanks. Yet the Kremlin’s incursion into Ukrainian territory is not isolated to...
Frozen Conflict in Moldova’s Transnistria: A Fitting Analogy to Ukraine’s Hybrid War?
History is a great teacher, so it’s no surprise that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and his subsequent Kremlin speech justifying it brought back memories of the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland in 1938. Parallels between Hitler and Putin abound, as do their motivations and the...
Russia Hosts CSTO Exercises in Western Military District
In late August, Russia hosted military exercises for elite forces assigned to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Vzaimodeystviye (Collaboration) 2015 was staged near Pskov, in the Western Military District (MD), testing CSTO rapid reaction capabilities and unit interoperability. The scenario concentrated upon a crisis in a...
