Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
U.S.-Russia Relations Beyond Ukraine: Realities and Recommendations
The Russian-American relationship has reached its lowest point since the end of the Cold War. While the Ukrainian crisis has been the catalyst for pushing tensions over the edge, a number of more pervasive issues, such as disagreements over bilateral arms control, European security, and crises in the Middle East continue to drive Moscow and...
Railway Hit in Odessa Blast, More Mysterious Antelope Deaths in Kazakhstan
Plus, Ukrainian de-communization drive in full swing; sex schools are a hit in Central Asia. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The anti-Soviet laws should be checked with the winning the war
The Ukrainian parliament passed a series of laws on April 9, which banned Soviet and Nazi symbols throughout the country and officially replaced the “Great Patriotic War”-the Soviet name for World War II, which is still used in Russia-with the “Second World War.” The law also banned the playing of the Soviet national anthem, the display of the...
Civil society in ‘Putin’s Russia’: A Q&A with Boris Makarenko
AEI’s director of Russian studies, Leon Aron, has edited a new volume— to be released at a conference on May 14— on the dynamics of Russian domestic politics titled “Putin’s Russia: How it rose, how it is maintained, and how it might end.” This work looks beyond international sanctions and the war in Ukraine to examine underlying...
The UK’s election upset: Political mould is broken across the country
A Tory government, sceptic on the EU, with a small majority sounds familiar – think of the Major government in the 1990s (though with a majority then of 21 well ahead of Cameron’s slender advantage). But little else looked the same as politicians, pundits and the public alike surveyed the new British political scene on Friday morning....
Defanging the Ukrainian Oligarchs
Ukrainian society-particularly sectors that pushed for greater accountability and transparency during the EuroMaidan Revolution-and Western governments, particularly the United States, are pushing Poroshenko to rein in the oligarchs. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Banking union – State of the Art
“The introduction of a banking union was a step that revolutionized European economic reality to a greater extent than economic and monetary union did” – said Andrzej Reich from the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority, who was the keynote speaker during the 137th mBank-CASE Seminar “Banking union – State of the Art”, which took place on April...
Propaganda On Parade
Image credit: Poster Collection, RU/SU 2241, Hoover Institution Archives.via Military History in the NewsThere can hardly be a more direct connection between military history and current affairs than over the celebration of the 70th anniversary of V-E Day in Russia on May 9. Vladimir Putin attempted to use the huge commemorations to promote the...
Obama Administration Stonewalls in Face of Evidence of Covert Action Against Azerbaijan
In the last two years, the Obama administration has succeeded in alienating longtime US allies Israel and Saudi Arabia; in offering Moscow a green light to invade Ukraine; and in continuing a strategic re-alignment of the Middle East that sees longtime allies such as Turkey and the aforementioned Israel and Saudi Arabia sidelined in favor of a...
Whither the West: A New Beginning
The Center is now in its fourth year, a truly remarkable achievement many of us never imagined would come to pass. We’ve had growing pains, and we’ve published some great authors, some of whom have gone on to other endeavors. But as much as we’ve changed, the world has changed more. When we began, we had three great questions...
