Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
How Oligarchs Have Ruined Ukraine’s Economy and How to Fix It
Ukraine finds itself in an economic crisis of massive proportions. In the past twelve months, its GDP has contracted by over 7.5 percent, the national deficit exceeds 10 percent, its currency has lost more than 50 percent of its value, its banks are insolvent and the national debt-to-GDP ratio has ballooned to more than 100 percent—causing a...
Washington’s Fifth Columns Inside Russia and China
It took two decades for Russia and China to understand that “pro-democracy” and “human rights” organizations operating within their countries were subversive organizations funded by the US Department of State and a collection of private American foundations organized by Washington. The real purpose of these non-governmental organizations (NGOs)...
Rebel Infighting Bringing Chaos to East Ukraine
Ten days ago Yelena Filippova, secretary to the head of Ukraine’s self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk (DPR), Alexander Zakharchenko, was badly injured when her car exploded as she drove to work. That afternoon, a prominent DPR politician was shot and wounded on one of the main streets of the city. With evening came...
Can Television be a Force for Good?
BBC Media Action, established as a “Marshall Plan for the mind” after the fall of the Berlin Wall, has worked with Ukrainian producers, directors and actors to create a docu-drama called 5Baksiv.net (translated as ‘5 Bucks’). Two young men set up a business where they come into contact with a broad section of Ukrainian...
Slovaks Say ‘Nie’ to Asylum Camp, Tatars Want Crimea Returned to Ukraine
Plus, commemorations held for Roma killed during the Holocaust, and summer holidays trump Macedonia’s reconciliation talks. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Once Again Moscow Tries to Intimidate Tokyo
Despite the best efforts of both Moscow and Tokyo to sustain the momentum toward a full normalization of their relations and a genuine rapprochement (see EDM, February 24, 2014; June 10, 2014), once again Russia has tried to intimidate Japan. In June 2015, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered a program of new military and civilian...
Elections in Ukraine’s Secessionist Territory: A Topic of International Negotiation (Part Two)
To read Part One, please click here. At this point, Moscow seems content to watch Western diplomats urging Kyiv to legitimize the Donetsk-Luhansk authorities through local elections, and (as a consequence of this) enshrining an official status for that territory in Ukraine’s constitution (see EDM, July 20, 24). According to Kyiv officials,...
Elections in Ukraine’s Secessionist Territory: A Topic of International Negotiation (Part One)
Ukraine is scheduled to hold local elections throughout the country (except the Russian-occupied territories) on October 25—the first such elections since the advent of a Western-oriented Ukrainian government. Under Ukrainian laws, passed in March (and corresponding with international law), elections of Ukraine may not be held in territories of...
Monsters of Ukraine: Made in the USA
We’re in the summer doldrums of the news cycle, a perfect time for our government and the media – or do I repeat myself? – to drop certain inconvenient stories down the Memory Hole. My job, of course, is to retrieve them…. Remember Ukraine? I seem to recall blaring headlines about a supposedly “imminent” and “massive” Russian invasion of...
Amnesty Slams Hungarian Asylum Law, Ukraine Issues ‘White List’ of Supporters
Plus, the U.S. beefs up sanctions against Russia and thousands take to the streets to protest Bosnia’s draft labor law. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
