Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russia and its Northern Neighbors: Young Leaders on the Future of Baltic Security
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 10:00 am – 11:30 am Johns Hopkins University – SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building, Room 500 1717 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036 Russia’s actions in Ukraine have sparked new concerns about the security of neighboring countries in the Baltic region. Despite being often grouped together as the Baltic States,...
Greece and Rick’s Sovereign Debt Café
“Greece to withhold E300 million loan repayment” (Financial Times lead headline today). I am shocked, shocked to find that default is going on in Rick’s Sovereign Debt Café!A week ago, the FT helpfully provided an instructive table of the huge losses, or “haircuts,” taken by the credulous bondholders in a dozen sovereign debt defaults...
Hardening Of Positions Undercuts Ukraine Peace Accord
June 5, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine’s Most Hopeful City: Lviv
June 5, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Russian IS Recruit Stopped in Turkey, Chechnya Rights Group Attacked
Plus, Canada’s leader says Putin’s Russia should stay out of G-7 and Bosnia embraces the pope’s visit. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Overcoming the Ukraine Crisis
Memories of the twentieth century’s great conflicts, from 1930s pacifism to Cold War antagonism, are stirring again, motivating both Russia and the West in one of the gravest threats to global order and European stability in the past 25 years. Indeed, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine involves nuclear-armed powers whose collective military...
The G7 Needs to Commit to Supporting Ukraine
BERLIN—When G7 leaders meet for their annual summit in Germany this weekend, for a second year without Russia, President Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine will rank high on their agenda. Though questions of war and peace may seem misplaced in what is, essentially, an economic policy forum, the escalation in Eastern Europe, and the...
The Kremlin has not completely given up the Novorosiya project
Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sunhurovskyi thinks that Putin’s Novorosiya project is not closed, informs the website Hlavkom. “I would hardly say that the Novorosiya project will be closed. It is for a fact that it failed as a blitzkrieg They counted on quick seizure i.e. the separation of these six oblasts...
Vast majority of UK public undecided on EU referendum vote – reform essential for swing vote
Vast majority of UK public undecided on EU referendum vote – reform essential for swing voteA Survation poll for the think-tank British Future has found that more than 70% of voters have not definitively made up their minds how to vote in the EU referendum and are waiting to see the deal struck by David Cameron. Just 16% say they are “definitely...
Merkel on G7: ‘Summit is more than crisis diplomacy’
The heads of state and government of the seven leading industrial countries will gather in Germany on June 7 and June 8 to discuss the most pressing global challenges. The Group of Seven countries are linked not only by prosperity and economic strength, but also by their shared values: freedom, democracy and human rights. Anyone doubting that...
