Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Video: Nikolai Zlobin Discusses Russian National Idea At Kennan Institute
August 6, 2015 On July 23, the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States hosted a discussion titled The National Idea in Russia and China. The event was part of their new joint series China and Russia: On Their Own Terms, whose goal is to “offer U.S....
Ukraine on the financial front – the problem of Ukraine’s foreign public debt
One of the key challenges that Ukraine is facing is the scale of its foreign debt (both public and private). …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
US Army Going the Distance to Reassure Allies in Eastern Europe
Amid increased Russian aggression in Ukraine, the U.S. Army needed a fresh way to reassure its ea… …read more Source: American Security Council...
In the shadow of Ukraine: seven years on from Russian-Georgian war
Seven years ago, in the night of 7th to the 8th August 2008, skirmishes along the lines of separation in Georgia escalated to full war. …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
Ukraine Warns of ‘Last Chance’ for Debt Compromise, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan Send Troops …
Plus, three accused in brutal attack on Croatian investigative journalist and France and Russia scupper the Mistral warship deal. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Juncker accuses member states of populism over migration crisis and says Commission could re-table mandatory burden sharing mechanism
Juncker accuses member states of populism over migration crisis and says Commission could re-table mandatory burden sharing mechanismIn an interview with AFP, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker accused some EU member states of behaving in a “populist” fashion in refusing to accept greater numbers of asylum seekers. He added “We...
Reforms in Ukraine: No Room for Pessimism
Ukraine’s old, corrupt political system is determined to resist change. At the same time, the country’s civil society activists are determined to change that system. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Euro Area growth is gaining momentum
Euro area growth is strengthening in the course of this year according to the Eurogrowth Indicator calculated by the Euroframe group in August 2015. GDP growth has accelerated slowly on quarter-on-quarter basis from a modest 0.2 per cent in the summer of 2014 to 0.4 per cent in the first quarter of this year. The indicator points to a further...
Ukraine Crisis Update: August 5, 2015
Download the PDF Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine continued to launch indirect fire and probing infantry attacks against Ukrainian forces in a similar pattern to recent weeks as negotiators from Kyiv, Moscow and the separatist “republics” convened in Minsk to discuss the failing February 2015 ‘Minsk II’ ceasefire agreement....
Ukraine’s Antiterrorism Cooperation With Russia
The financial intelligence services of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine have been intensively cooperating to prevent the financing of illegal armed groups, according to Vyachaslaw Reut, the head of the financial monitoring department of Belarus’ State Control Committee (KGK) (TASS, July 22). “Despite the existing political differences between...
