Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine, Private Creditors Take a Step Toward Debt Solution
Ukraine has taken one step back from looming default as an agreement was reached to start direct talks with Kyiv’s biggest private creditors. This is despite a setback with Russia, which has refused to discuss the restructuring of a loan issued in 2013 as a reward to then-president Viktor Yanukovych for rejecting an association and free...
Greece’s clash with reality
Groucho Marx used to say that he was not crazy about reality, but that it was still the only place to get a decent meal. The sooner the Greeks and their political elites return to reality and abandon the fantasy of a radically better deal with the Troika that would somehow exonerate them of the need to pursue deep economic reforms, the better for...
Armenia Wants Best of Both Worlds
Six months ago, it looked like Armenia had made a final, definitive choice to align itself with Russia rather than the European Union. But now the government in Yerevan seems to be reaching out to Brussels again and seeking something like the kind of Association Agreement that it abandoned nearly two years ago – and officials insist that Moscow...
Ukraine Is More Important Than Greece
For one year, Russia has pursued a long, costly war of aggression against Ukraine. Its objective is obvious: to destabilize Ukraine so that the new democratic regime fails. Therefore, the West should adjust its goals accordingly to offer Ukraine financial support.The Kremlin has presented one false objective after the other for this aggression....
Armenia to Buy Russian Missiles, Serbian Premier Pegs Srebrenica Visit to Results of UN Vote
Plus, Russia denounces Poland’s ‘war of monuments,’ and Ukraine’s first professionalized traffic cops graduate. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
History as a Weapon of Mass Deception
Leading up to the seventieth anniversary of Russia’s victory over Nazi Germany on May 9, seemingly every Russian media outlet buzzed about the unveiling of the country’s new premier tank, the Armata T-14. Outfitted with an advanced remote-controlled armed turret, a new 125-mm 2A82-1M smoothbore cannon, the new tank was rumored to come...
The government are trying to put the entire price of reforms on ordinary citizens
On Holos Stolytsi Radio, Economic Research Consultant of the Razumkov Centre Volodymyr Sidenko shared his thoughts on Petro Poroshenko’s statement that in the next few years, Ukraine will be entitled to the EU candidate status, and also spoke about the course of economic reforms. – What do you think about the president’s statement in...
ISIS Makes the British Lion a De-Clawed and Shabby Cat
The recent and rapid successes of the Islamic State (IS) in seizing Palmyra in Syria and Ramadi in Iraq, together with its three successful same-day strikes on 26 June 2015 in Kuwait, France, and Tunisia seem to have left British Prime Minister David Cameron rather panicky — like a twitchy kitten experiencing its first thunder-and lightning...
Moscow Blasts Draft MH17 Report, UN Asks Hungary to Rethink Tighter Asylum Proposals
Plus, a self-described IS militant uses social media to denounce his native Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan fumes over a separatist’s invitation to London. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The bear and the beaver: Russia and European energy security
Winter is long over, and with it the worry, for a few months at least, that a Russian gas cut-off could leave Europe in the cold. This year, however, the fading threat has the appearance of being more than merely an annual phenomenon. While Europe’s energy security will be a challenge for decades to come, three recent developments provide...
