Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
August in Donbas: Will the War Spread?
The speaker of the Duma (Russian lower house of parliament), Sergei Naryshkin, published an article in the government daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta this week (August 9), making dark predictions about August and attacking the United States for being a global menace. The month of August, he writes, has traditionally featured evil happenings and wars in...
Anger In Crimea As Russian Rule Fails To Stem Corruption
August 13, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Russian Supermodel in Row Over Disabled Sister’s Ouster, Turkmenistan Bars Horse Expert From …
Plus, Belarus censors distance-learning packet sent to political prisoner, and witness protection among new Kosovo court’s biggest challenges …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia’s Occupation of Ukraine Still Top Threat to Global Security
Recent articles in the US media suggest that the Pentagon is “rebalancing” its forces towards Europe to meet the Russian challenge. At the same time, NATO plans to halve the number of air patrols over the Baltic. Supposedly the Russian threat to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania has ebbed, and governments are finally stepping up to...
The Committee for Ukraine’s Salvation: a pawn in Russia’s game
The pro-Russian committee has assembled in Moscow. It is composed of discredited politicians who have escaped from Ukraine. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Boris Johnson: In the event of Brexit much of UK-EU relationship would be rebuilt on an intergovernmental level
Boris Johnson: In the event of Brexit much of UK-EU relationship would be rebuilt on an intergovernmental levelIn an interview with Spiegel Online, London Mayor and Tory MP Boris Johnson argues that “We’re always going to be a part of Europe psychologically. The trouble is that the euro and the Eurozone have taken over so much emotional and...
Ukraine Crisis Update: August 12, 2015
Download the PDF On August 10, Russian-backed separatist forces launched their largest combined arms assault against Ukrainian forces in the past two months. Tags Ukraine Project UkrainePromote …read more Source: Institute for the Study of...
Ukraine and Soviet Nuclear History
Introduction …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Debates on Finlandization for Ukraine
The issue of Ukraine’s prospective future membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) surfaced again recently with the publication of the latest public opinion poll, according to which, a historical high of almost 64 percent of Ukrainians supports joining the North Atlantic Alliance (UNIAN, August 3). But as the...
Lukashenka’s Interview With ‘Unfriendly’ Media Outlets
On August 4, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka gave a 4.5-hour-long interview to journalists representing three media outlets not run by the Belarusian state. Ranked in ascending order of their history of vociferous criticism of the Lukashenka regime, these outlets included Tut.by, Belarus’s leading privately owned news portal; Euroradio, an...
