Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine Separatists Rewrite History of 1930s Famine
April 29, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Riga Summit Likely To Disappoint Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine
April 29, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
EU Adepts Nervous Ahead of Riga Summit, Orban Calls for Death Penalty Debate
Plus, Belarusian IT leaders decry arrest of high-flying financier; embarrassment in Russia over Nazis on a billboard and undulating girls at a war monument. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine’s Other Chernobyls
Europe has made huge investments in reviving Ukraine’s aging nuclear power plants, despite the considerable dangers they pose. With 12 of Ukraine’s 15 reactors set to reach the end of their intended lifetime, it is time for a new approach, aimed at propelling Ukraine toward a safer, more sustainable energy future. …read more...
Tennis And Diplomacy: Do Winners Need to Take All?
The Federation Cup is an international tennis competition for women professionals, the rough equivalent of the Davis Cup for men, in which countries compete as national teams. For once, Canada has been considered a rising force to be reckoned with, principally because of Eugenie Bouchard, the 21-year old beauty from Westmount, Quebec, whose...
Bilateral Ties Between Georgia and Belarus Take a New Turn
On April 22–24, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka paid his first ever official visit to Georgia. The visit was filled with pageantry and emotional declarations, as President Lukashenka met with Georgian President Giorgi Margevlashvili, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, and the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Catholicos-Patriarch...
Belarusians Bristle at Russian Land Claims on Belarus
Russian imperialists have insisted that more than any other place within the former Soviet space, Belarus is artificial. They reach this conclusion on the basis that Belarus is culturally related to Russia on many measures, had only a brief experience with national independence before 1991, and—what they see as their trump card—underwent frequent...
Moscow Displays New Military Hardware Amid Rising Tensions (Part One)
Advanced preparations for the annual Victory Day (May 9) military parade in Red Square have revealed numerous examples of cutting-edge hardware entering service in the Russian Armed Forces. Controversy surrounds this year’s parade, which is set to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War (Russian term for World War...
Klitschko: Economic Success Will Unite Country
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko is no pushover. The former professional boxer turned politician has held the World Boxing Organization’s Heavyweight title three times. Known for his powerful punches, Klitschko’s 87 percent knockout rate is the second-best knockout-to-fight ratio of any champion in heavyweight boxing history.Klitschko, who...
ENP overhaul: are DCFTAs still a good idea? Michael Leigh shares his views
The crisis in Ukraine and the instability and violence in the Middle East and North Africa have triggered a re-think of the European Neighbourhood Policy. Sir Michael Leigh, a former Director General for enlargement at the EU Commission, now a senior adviser to the German Marshall Fund, shared his views with Iana Dreyer on the current ENP...
