Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine Working to Stabilize Cease-fire, Merkel Says
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Ukraine “is determined” to reach a more stable cease-fire wi… …read more Source: American Security Council...
Worse in Store for Russian Economy, Bosnia Just Beats Deadline to Form Government
Plus, Tajikistan steps up a crackdown on suspected extremists, and a CIA detainee’s lawyer seeks Polish probe files. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Trade and geopolitics: should the EU engage with the Eurasian Economic Union?
Can a closer cooperation between the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union bring peace to eastern Ukraine and restore EU-Russia relations? …read more Source: European Policy...
Attending an international round table “Conflict resolution – what Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and the EU should do”
On 11-13 March 2015, in Germany (Berlin), an international round table Conflict Resolution – What Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and the EU Should Do was held by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. The round table was attended by representatives of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, experts of the institutions of the European Union, and delegations of...
Questions grow around Greece’s ability to pay IMF despite submitting improved reform list
Questions grow around Greece’s ability to pay IMF despite submitting improved reform listGreece yesterday submitted its latest reform list to its European partners. The Financial Times published a copy of the 26 page document, which aims at raising up to €6bn in revenue. The cash comes from areas such as: an audit of offshore bank transfers...
Explaining China’s Position on the Crimea Referendum
China recognizes the complex historical dimensions of the situation in Crimea and remains committed to a diplomatic solution that considers the interests of all parties involved. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Voices During the Maidan as Captured by Public Radio Ukraine
A lot has been written about the Euromaidan in Ukraine. Many have written about their memories. Oral histories are being recorded. But what were people saying, at the time, as events were unfolding? …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Belarus’s Economic Crisis and National Unity
At present, news coming out of Belarus is marked by two particular refrains: the economic crisis and a search for national consolidation. These refrains may be interrelated since negative macroeconomic trends, coupled with a lack of structural reforms that would boost the private sector, make Belarus overly dependent on Russia. And in the absence...
Anti-Corruption Tide Sweeping Across Ukraine
As the fragile truce in eastern Ukraine has provided Kyiv with a respite from war, the Ukrainian authorities have begun to purge their own ranks. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who has been in charge of economic policy since the Maidan victory in February 2014, is having a hard time fending off corruption allegations. Ihor...
Apocalypse a bit later: The meaning of Putin’s nuclear threats
The words that Russian President Vladimir Putin chose for describing the nuclear angle of the special operation for seizing and annexing Crimea in March 2014, might appear so odd that it is well-nigh impossible to make sense of them. “Yes, we were ready,” he said to the question about whether the option of putting strategic forces on high alert...
