Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Kagans: Seeking War to the End of the World
If the neoconservatives have their way again, US ground troops will reoccupy Iraq, the US military will take out Syria’s secular government (likely helping Al Qaeda and the Islamic State take over), and the US Congress will not only kill the Iran nuclear deal but follow that with a massive increase in military spending. Like spraying...
‘Genius Grant’ Group Leaves Russia, Kyrgyzstan Strikes Back at U.S. Over Rights Award
Plus, Moscow denies it’s pushing into Georgian territory and a proposal on private universities in Albania sparks protest. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Obama Should Release MH-17 Intel
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Releasing an Intelligence Report on Shoot-Down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 It has been a year since the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine, resulting in the death of 298 passengers and crew. The initial response by the US...
Ukraine Crisis Update: July 22, 2015
Download the PDF Civilian areas in both government and separatist-held areas came under increased fire this week despite a breakthrough in negotiations over the withdrawal of weapons from the front line. Tags Ukraine Project UkrainePromote …read more Source: Institute for the Study of...
The Greek Crisis: Financial and Political Risks to the Balkans
Although the Greek banks reopened on July 20, and Athens repaid some of its debt to the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank, unease about the Greek crisis continues in the Balkans. The last 25 years of turbulent political and economic transition have taught the former Communist countries in the region that economic change...
Reform Agenda in Kyiv on Slow Burn, But in Odesa, Saakashvili Already Delivers
“I come away from this visit to Odesa with a sense of optimism,” wrote US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt after his recent trip there. After I posted Pyatt’s article to my Facebook page in an attempt to diminish the growing fatigue of fellow Ukrainians over the mixed results of the new government’s reforms, angry reactions...
Hundreds Of Ukrainian Right-Wingers Hold Anti-Government Rally In Kiev; Call For A Referendum
July 22, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Bosnian Leaders in Goodwill Trip to Belgrade, Moscow Warns Sweden to Stay Out of NATO
Plus, Russia’s muckraking Novaya Gazeta faces official sanction and Kazakhstani experts say a common gas is behind a bizarre sleeping sickness. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
We Are All Ukrainians Now
My first visit to Ukraine was in February 1992 and the City of Kiev was gray, bleak and joyless as was the rest of the Soviet Union. Last month I re-visited—23 years and several other assignments later—to find a new nation of extremes. There is prosperity and there is poverty; there is peace and war; cynicism and hope; there are reformers in high...
The final decision on the case of the MH17 crash should be made by an international tribunal
Official results of the international investigation of the passenger Boeing-777 crash in Donbas are going to be published in autumn. However, the world is already discussing the need to create an international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the plane crash, informs the news agency UNIAN. Co-director of Foreign Relations and...
