Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Central Europe’s Response to Conflict in Ukraine
AIIA National Office intern Alexia Jablonski interviews Dr Katarzyna Pisarska on the Visegrad group, the European Union’s response to Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and the public diplomacy efforts of Central European countries. Dr Katarzyna Pisarska is the Founder and Director of the European Academy of Diplomacy and the Visegrad...
Moscow’s Pressure on Belarus Increasingly Counterproductive
Moscow’s increasing pressure on Minsk to hew the pro-Russia line is proving to be counterproductive in three ways: First, it has prompted President Alyaksandr Lukashenka to take on even more independent positions—and owing to what Vladimir Putin is doing, he is not the “last dictator in Europe” any more. Second, Russian pressure is...
Moldova Risks Opening Pandora’s Box With ‘National-Cultural’ Districts
The Gagauz autonomous territory, instituted in 1994, is the only jurisdiction with ethnic autonomy in Moldova. Adjacent to the Gagauz territory, the Bulgarian-majority district (“raion”) of Taraclia has no particular status. Legislation now pending in the Moldovan parliament would allow conferring a special status on districts or towns, beginning...
Rebel Forces Prepare Spring Offensive in Ukraine
All parties to the Minsk Two agreement, which has resulted in a shaky ceasefire in southeastern Ukraine since February 12, express varying levels of concern about a possible full resumption of hostilities. On April 10, the pro-Russian Ukrainian rebel leader who heads the Donetsk “People’s Republic” (DPR), Alexander Zakharchenko, warned that...
Risks of Delayed Lustrations
Ukraine’s lustration process has given rise to much unfavorable criticism and triggered heated discussion. IMR advisor Ekaterina Mishina analyzes the experience of lustration, or the purging of government officials previously associated with the Communist Party, in the post-Soviet space and points out its risks in Ukraine. …read more...
Is Authoritarianism Staging a Comeback?
New volume examines how authoritarian regimes have become smarter The late Samuel Huntington, a Harvard political scientist, famously talked about democratization as a series of wave motions forward and backward. Scholars label the burst of democratization in Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s as the Third Wave. The...
A View from Luhansk: Waiting for War to Return
Luhansk Oblast – Ukrainians are waiting for war to start again. Since a ceasefire agreement went into effect in February, the winter has been relatively quiet in Luhansk Oblast, marred only by sporadic rockets fired from the territory of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR). In many respects, life appears oddly normal in the small...
6 Troops Killed by Rebels Despite Cease-Fire in Eastern Ukraine
April 14, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Rival Factions in Ukraine Are Urged to Withdraw Heavy Weapons
April 14, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
In Poland, a Tragedy of Negligence, a Legacy of Blame
Five years after the Smolensk crash, the most pressing lessons seem not to have been learned. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
