Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Migrants Riot at Hungarian Camp, Albanian Police-Murder Suspects Arrested
Plus, an OSCE mission reportedly comes under fire in Ukraine, and Azerbaijan opens a naval base on the Caspian Sea. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine’s ‘History Laws’ Purge It Of Communist Symbols But Divide The Population
June 30, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Operation Baltic Fortress, 2016: NATO Defends the Baltic States
Russia’s recent actions in Ukraine call for an analysis of the potential future scenarios that NATO and its member states should prepare for – especially in the Baltics …read more Source: Royal United Services Institute...
Not Exactly Friends of Greece
After a sometimes-traumatic transition, then austerity, post-communist countries especially have lost patience with Athens. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Making a Martyr of Morsi?
The Execution of Mohammad Morsi will have wide ranging domestic and international ramifications and going ahead with it could make a martyr of a man President Al-Sisi would rather forget. The coup d état in July 2013 in which General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi overthrew Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, has seen a systematic reversion to authoritarian...
Electric Yerevan and Lessons on the Color-Spring Tactic
The Electric Yerevan protest provides us with an excellent opportunity to review some of the basic underlying mechanics and psychology of the Color-Spring tactic. It is important to share these publicly, for it is indeed probable that the Color-Spring tactic will be increasingly applied in the world as a “hybrid soft-power/hard-power...
France Is Prepared to Supply Advanced Air Defense Infrastructure to Georgia
On June 15, during the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, where important deals for arms supplies are often agreed, Georgia signed its first ever large contract with France on supplies of defense military equipment (Civil Georgia, June 16). The description of the equipment is quite unclear, since no one, with the exception of a narrow circle of...
North Caucasians May Turn Into Third-Class Citizens in Russia
A Russian publication has alleged that the “Stop Feeding the Caucasus!” slogan, which is popular among ethnic Russians, was invented by Vladimir Putin’s enemies to undermine his authority and ultimately destroy him politically. This is an unusual attempt to construct a collective identity of all citizens of Russia. The “enemies of Putin”...
Yerevan Electricity Protests Reach Climax
Protests in Yerevan and other Armenian cities have persisted for over a week, following the state regulatory commission’s June 17 decision about increasing the electricity fee from August 1. As previously suggested (see EDM, June 12), the commission decided upon a smaller fee increase than Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) management had...
Exposing Russian Disinformation
Editor’s note: Ambassador John B. Emerson gave the opening remarks at “Exposing Russian Disinformation in the 21st Century,” a conference sponsored by the Atlantic Council, the European Council on Foreign Relations, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation on June 25, 2015 in Berlin. Emerson’s remarks have been shortened below....
