Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Why Are Germans So Sympathetic to Russia?
Image www.huffingtonpost.com The deployment of Pershing II missiles in the early 1980s by NATO to counter Soviet SS-20s led to widespread fears in Germany that the Cold War would escalate. Hundreds of thousands marched in protests, demanding that NATO refrain from deploying the missiles. Many members of the German public were ready to trust...
How to Avert a Nuclear War
The Ukrainian crisis has threatened the stability of relations between Russia and the West, making it all the more critical for Russia and the United States to talk, to relieve the pressures to “use or lose” nuclear forces during a crisis and minimize the risk of a mistaken launch. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The Kremlin Connections of the Hungarian Far-Right
In 2009, after the escalation of the Georgian-Russian crisis, Political Capital was among the first to call attention to the positive orientation towards Russia of East European far-right parties. Subsequently, in April 2014 Political Capital indicated that with the assistance of European far-right parties’ pro-Russian policies, the...
The Curious (Criminal) Case of a EuroMaidan Activist
If Crimea is Russia, then why is it trying a Ukrainian citizen who allegedly injured another Ukrainian citizen – in Ukraine? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
US, Ukraine Start Military Training, Defying Russian Fury
April 20, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
The process of decentralisation should be speeded up
Legal Research Fellow of the Razumkov Centre Viktor Musiyaka told the Obozrevatel website about the process of decentralisation in Ukraine. During the constitutional execution of decentralisation in Ukraine, many forms of local communities will be considered, including the form of Polish voivodeships. Ukraine has already introduced the necessary...
Will Russia dare to start a special operation “The Baltics”
In his column for the Novoe Vremia Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sunhurovskyi wrote about a possible Russia’s scenario to destabilize Baltic states. …read more Source: Razumkov...
U.S. ‘Sorry’ for Polish Holocaust Remark, Serb Leader Visits Srebrenica Memorial
Plus, the UN warns of a rising civilian toll in eastern Ukraine, and rights advocates want more pressure on Baku ahead of the first European Games. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
A War of Values With Russia
No one should be fooled by the Kremlin’s spin doctors: The conflict in Ukraine is not about Ukraine, Russia, or even NATO. Russia’s policy is being driven by its leaders’ fear and loathing of democracy, and the West must respond accordingly. …read more Source: Project Syndicate (Czech...
Political Murders in Kiev, US Troops to Ukraine
Last week two prominent Ukrainian opposition figures were gunned down in broad daylight. They join as many as ten others who have been killed or committed suicide under suspicious circumstances just this year. These individuals have one important thing in common: they were either part of or friendly with the Yanukovych government, which a...
