Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Bulgarian Troops at Macedonia Border, U.S. Lawmakers in ‘Secretly Funded’ Baku Junket
Plus, the ECHR rules on a Georgia gay pride march and Russia probes an NGO linked to Khodorkovsky. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Combating corruption in Ukraine – the beginning of a long march
2015-05-07Marta JaroszewiczPiotr ŻochowskiFrom a public opinion point of view, corruption has been the gravest problem of today’s Ukraine, excepting the armed conflict in the east of the country. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
‘The Nemtsov report’: a collection of evidence of Russia’s participation in the war in Ukraine
2015-05-13Katarzyna JarzyńskaThe report summarises previous publications on the presence in Ukraine of regular units of the Russian army, mercenaries paid by Russia and Russian military equipment. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
The Warsaw Pact: Forgotten Relic of the Cold War
Sixty years after the signing of the Warsaw Pact on 14 May 1955, relations between Russia and Western Europe remain fraught with tension. This week marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation (WTO), better known as the Warsaw Pact. Up until at least 1991, European and even global security concerns were...
Kerry’s pointless diplomacy in Russia
From the moment John Kerry’s trip to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s summer residence in Sochi on the Black Sea was announced, it was hard to see what the U.S. secretary of state hoped to achieve. Indeed, of the three objectives on Kerry’s official agenda — seeking Russian assistance in ending the Syrian civil war, bringing...
Putin’s Russia: How it rose, how it is maintained, and how it might end
Long before the war in Ukraine and associated international sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime faced potential crises in its political and economic systems. To date, however, the Kremlin has failed to address them. Instead, Putin has unleashed a massive propaganda campaign, increased repression at home, and pursued...
Belarus’s Rapprochement With the West and the Zero-Sum Fallacy
On May 7, Belarus’s national ice hockey team beat the United States for the first time, netting a 5–2 win at the world championship in Prague (BELTA, May 8). Hardly any piece of news pleased Belarusians more than this one. Yet, one may also recall that Belarus’s hockey team is trained by Dave Lewis, the former Detroit Red Wings coach...
Ukrainian government responses to internally displaced persons
Internal displacement is a new phenomenon in Ukraine. Until March 2014, the country’s experience with forced migration had been limited to relatively small numbers of refugees. The first wave of internal displacement occurred in March 2014 and in one year the official number of registered internally displaced persons (IDPs) has climbed to...
Crimean Tatars: ‘We did not reject Russia, Russia rejected us’
On May 18, 1944, Joseph Stalin deported more than 180,000 Crimean Tatars to Uzbekistan. Once again this community faces major challenges. Today, 230,000 Crimean Tatars, who are mainly Sunni Muslims, represent about 12 percent of Crimea’s population. Virtually all of Crimea’s Tatars opposed Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March...
Chrystia Freeland’s Ukraine
The post Chrystia Freeland’s Ukraine appeared first on Canadian International Council – Canada’s hub for international affairs. …read more Source: Canadian International...
