Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Europe Finds Time to Hector Azerbaijan for Having Tax Laws
Greece is in a constant near-state of collapse. Ukraine burns. Russia’s internal tyranny grows. Southern Europe’s economic stability is questionable at best. The future of the euro as a joint project is dim at best. ISIS rampages across North Africa and Asia Minor, sending waves of refugees into Europe’s strained safety net. Oil...
Is There Still a Ukraine?
Ukraine’s independence day is upon us. It was fun while it lasted. They say that history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. Whatever the truth of this axiom, Vladimir Putin is proving that in his own backyard, he understands history better than anyone in Brussels or Washington. While this isn’t exactly the greatest accomplishment in...
U.S. Told Ukraine To Stand Down On Crimea
In the Newsquoting Michael McFaulvia Japan TimesAs Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces took over Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in early 2014, the interim Ukrainian government was debating whether or not to fight back against the “little green men” Russia had deployed. …read more Source: Hoover...
Ukraine Has Every Right to Play Hardball With Its Creditors
As Ukraine fights Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas, the government is simultaneously engaged in a battle with its foreign creditors for the debt relief it desperately needs to prevent a full-scale economic collapse. Ukraine owes $32 billion in foreign currency Eurobonds.To stave off disaster, the International Monetary Fund and other...
The Azerbaijani First Daughter’s Cozy Russian Retreat
Without an invitation, it’s nearly impossible to take a look at Leyla Alieva’s house near Moscow, since privacy is so highly valued by her neighbors. From OCCRP. Without an invitation, it’s nearly impossible to take a look at Leyla Alieva’s house near Moscow, since privacy is so highly valued by her neighbors. From OCCRP....
Ukraine Leaders Look To Summit With Germany, France To Curb Russian ‘Aggression’
August 21, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine Steps Up Efforts to Recover Stolen Assets Abroad
Two Kyiv-based women—a lawyer who heads a state agency created to reclaim stolen assets abroad and a social activist-turned-politician who’s made a career out of exposing official corruption—spoke August 20 in Washington about their efforts to clean up Ukraine.Olena Tyshchenko is director of the Agency for Asset Recovery at Ukraine’s...
Ukraine Crisis Update: August 20, 2015
Download the PDF Russian-backed separatists launched a rare artillery barrage on the northeastern outskirts of the strategic government-held port city of Mariupol on August 16. Tags Ukraine Project UkrainePromote …read more Source: Institute for the Study of...
Russia, Not Ukraine, is the Questionable Partner
In its August 12 editorial, “Shaky Ukraine: Economics and Corruption Complicate Its War,” the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette calls Ukraine a “questionable partner” because of “resistance to economic reform and use of Islamist Chechen forces.” Too bad neither charge is true. …read more Source: Atlantic...
Jeremy Corbyn and his sinister friends
Even if they disagree with his politics, Jeremy Corbyn’s parliamentary colleagues, such as Douglas Carswell from the UK Independence Party (UKIP), acknowledge that he is a nice, down-to-earth fellow; certainly not one of his party’s grandees. Unpretentious, rarely seen wearing a suit and a tie, he’s also been one of the most...
