Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Is Radical Nationalism in Russia Getting Out of Control?
Radical nationalism has long been one of the leading threats to Russia’s national security. However, in recent years, and especially during the Ukraine crisis, the Kremlin has tried to co-opt the nationalists to use them to mobilize the population. At the moment, according to Donald Jensen, resident fellow at the Center for Transatlantic...
Ukraine Erases Communist Reminders Amid Efforts to Shake Soviet Yoke
May 12, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
How Russia’s Opposition United To Finish Nemtsov’s Report On Ukraine
May 12, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
The death of Europe? Continental fates after Ukraine
The unravelling of the post-Cold War security order in Europe was both cause and consequence of the crisis in Ukraine. The crisis was a symptom of the three-fold failure to achieve the aspirations to create a ‘Europe whole and free’ enunciated by the Charter of Paris in 1990, the drift in the European Union’s behaviour from normative...
The false promise of continental concert: Russia, the West and the necessary balance of power
The war in Ukraine is revelatory of a malaise in Europe’s security order created by Russia’s resistance to western institutions on the one hand and the western desire to maintain these institutions while partnering with Russia on the other. Absent a sense of priorities, western policy risks contributing to the erosion of...
The Budapest Memorandum and Russia’s intervention in Ukraine
Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States extended security assurances to Ukraine in December 1994 in an agreement that became known as the Budapest Memorandum. This agreement was part of a package of arrangements whereby Ukraine transferred the Soviet-made nuclear weapons on its territory to Russia and acceded to the Treaty on the...
Macedonia Charges 30 Over Weekend Attack, Posthumous Nemtsov Report Released
Plus, China loans billions to Belarus; Turkmenistan inks economic deals with Iran amid revived talk of a gas pipeline to Europe. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Heading west? Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic path
Events in Ukraine in 2014 are likely to transform the presence and role of western institutions such as NATO in the post-Soviet area. The crisis has starkly revealed the limits of their influence within Russia’s ‘zone of privileged interest’, as well as the lack of internal unity within these organizations vis-à-vis relations with...
Russia Has Complete Informational Dominance in Ukraine
Hackers have consistently used low-level cyber warfare tactics to advance Russian goals in Ukraine.A dedicated group of hackers successfully infected the e-mail systems of the Ukrainian military, counterintelligence, border patrol, and local police. The hackers use a spear-phishing attack in which malware is hidden in an attachment that appears...
Political values in ‘Putin’s Russia’: A Q&A with Mikhail Dmitriev
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...
