Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Macedonian Police Raid ISIS Suspects, Analyst Warns of Russian Advance in Ukraine
Plus, Croatia condemns flag-burning in Belgrade, Czechs to toughen up gambling laws. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
CGI Asks: “Putin’s Russia” or “Russia’s Putin”?
August 7, 2015 A selection of Western and Russian experts respond to a question from CGI on the latest foreign policy developments affecting Russia and Eurasia. This time, we discuss whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is the main force shaping modern-day Russia, or whether he is more of a product–and perhaps an inevitable one–of...
How to end Putinism
This article will be published in the August 17 edition of The Weekly Standard.“Russia is a friendly, European country,” said President Vladimir Putin in a 2001 address to the Bundestag in Berlin. Putin told German lawmakers he applauded European integration, believed in the unity of European culture, and was convinced that no one had benefited...
Ukraine Runs Out of Coal, May Run Out of Gas
Ukraine’s government has failed to properly adapt to the reality of Russia’s energy blockade. Just like at this time last year, Ukraine’s power plants are currently short of coal, ahead of the heating season, which begins in October, and no natural gas is being imported from Russia. Ukraine’s coal industry has been ruined...
Ukraine Is Asked to Provide Legal Cover for Donetsk-Luhansk ‘Elections’
Moscow is prepared to orchestrate local elections in the “people’s republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk (“DPR, LPR”), separately from Ukraine’s upcoming local elections. Donetsk and Luhansk announced this intention in early July (see EDM, July 9) and reaffirmed it during the Contact Group’s failed meetings in Minsk, on July 21 and...
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...
