Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Medieval Prince Vladimir Deepens Russia-Ukraine Split
July 29, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ucraina e Libia: i conflitti alle porte dell’Europa ? Quale futuro per la Politica Europea di Vicinato
As part of the “Citizens Dialogues” initiative organised by the EC Representation in Italy, the International Affairs Institute (IAI) in Rome and the Centre for Studies on Federalism Foundation organise a public debate on the crisis in Ukraine and Libya. …read more Source: Istituto Affari...
Asking for Shock Therapy
The Ukrainian government is caught between a warm embrace of neoliberal dogma and geopolitical suicide. From openDemocracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia Threatens Ukrainian Pilot Nadiya Savchenko with 25-Year Jail Term
Nadiya Savchenko, Ukraine’s most famous female military officer, has languished in a Moscow prison for more than a year since Moscow-backed separatists captured her in eastern Ukraine last June and smuggled across the border to Russia shackled, her head covered by a sack. Now her captors have moved her again—and again under the cover of...
Congress should fact-check the Kurds
Make no mistake: It is essential that the Iraqi government, and Iraqi and Syrian Kurds both have the material they need to fight the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh). When Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi took the reins of power in Baghdad in 2014, he inherited an impossible situation: ISIS had seized broad swaths of territory, including Mosul,...
Blackjacks, Hypersonic Aerial Vehicles and the Defense of Crimea: Russia’s Futuristic Challenge to the West?
Russian military media coverage across a range of modernization and strategic-level issues inadvertently reveals planning weaknesses within the defense establishment. Plans to modernize part of the strategic bomber fleet, develop high-tech hypersonic strike capabilities, and consolidate Crimea’s defense conceal Moscow’s deeper...
Ukraine War Risks Reigniting As OSCE Warns Of Troop Buildup
…read more Source: Center on Global...
Azov Battalion Leader’s Death Raises Questions, New Moldovan Premier Named
Plus, violence racks Macedonia’s biggest Albanian party and Poland tilts farther into the no-euro camp. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Here’s How the EU Can Get Putin’s Attention
How would the West react to a major escalation of the war in eastern Ukraine? What would Brussels and Washington do if Russia continues to send troops there?Even though analysts often suggest arming Ukraine with defensive weapons, what people sometimes forget is that the West is still, by far, Russia’s largest trade and investment partner....
Fear of the Unknown
Central Europeans have much more experience being emigrants than welcoming immigrants. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
