Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Four Original Options on Ukraine and NATO
In the conditions of a strongly anti-NATO popular leaning, from 1991 to 2013, Ukraine could not join NATO, nor could it join a Russian-dominated union without coercion, and the attempts, of its respective westernizers and easternizers to do so, backfired. The pressures to simplify and choose sides came from both ends, East and West. Their...
Skolkovo Tech School’s American Founder Steps Down
Institute plans to continue close cooperation with MIT, Russian media say. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine Bans Foreign Journalists Who Threaten ‘National Interests’
BBC’s Moscow correspondent among 388 people banned in Poroshenko’s latest sanctions. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
What’s a politician’s best tool? A razor
Except for Ben Carson, there’s a slate of clean-shaven candidates. ReutersA new poll indicated that Dr Ben Carson has pulled nearly even with Donald Trump among Republican primary and caucus voters. Interestingly, Carson – who sports a thin doorknocker – is the only presidential candidate with facial hair. And if elected, he’d be...
ENI’s Gas Discovery in Egypt Puts Pressure on Italian-Russian Energy Ties
The discovery of a world-class supergiant gas field in the waters off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast by Italian state-owned energy producer ENI is another step forward in Italy’s attempt to become an energy hub in southern Europe. Despite the silence of both the Russian government and the Kremlin-controlled oil and gas companies,...
How Putin Shot Himself in the Foot
Russian propaganda managed to surpass its own absurdity when the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, claimed that Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk fought alongside rebel forces in both Chechen wars. Yatsenyuk supposedly tortured and executed Russian soldiers there. This apparently took place in the...
How the West Can Stand Up to Putin
Winter is less than four months away, but Russian President Vladimir Putin is already freezing eastern Ukraine.No, I’m not talking about the possibility of Ukraine not being able to renegotiate lower gas prices this year. (That’s another issue entirely).The kind of freeze that Putin is plotting for Ukraine is political. For more than...
Russia Using Syria to Overshadow Ukraine, Analysts Say
September 16, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
What Europe Needs to Do to Solve its Energy Security Problem
Over the past few years, the European Union (EU) has sought to enhance its energy security by implementing the Third Energy Package, proposing an Energy Union, holding Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom to competition rules, and actively pursuing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Despite these efforts, the EU...
Europe’s Refugee Crisis and the Unravelling of the Union
BRUSSELS—Turkey, with a population of 75 million, is hosting around 2 million refugees from the ongoing wars in Syrian and Iraq. Lebanon, with less than 5 million citizens, is hosting over 1 million. Jordan, population 6.4 million, now hosts close to 1 million. These well-known figures show how the series of disputes among European...
