Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russia’s State RIA News Agency: ‘Let the world fear us’
The May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow is designed to impress the world and the home public with Russia’s relentless military might. But no one seems to be counting the expenses. The last Soviet military parade in Red Square was in November 1990. Then, the Cold War ended, the Soviet Union collapsed and there were no parades until May 1995....
Journalists Increasingly Muzzled, Ukraine’s Economy Increasingly Battered
Plus, a Czech court considers gay adoption and the Balkans’ population continues to dwindle. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
How Russia, the West, and China Made the World a Less Secure Place
The ‘Ukrainian Crisis’ has grave implications for the future of nonproliferation. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Razumkov Centre Newsletter №16
This issue contains articles and interviews of the Razumkov Centre’s experts, dealing with most topical issues in Ukraine’s current affairs. In particular – domestic politics, security sector, the situation in the Ukrainian economy and energy sector. Read The Razumkov Centre Newsletter №16 …read more Source: Razumkov...
Currently it is not really possible to reformat the parliamentary coalition
Deputy Director, Director of Political and Legal Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Yuriy Yakymenko explains to the website Glavnoe what is currently happening in the Verkhovna Rada and whether the parliamentary coalition is at risk of collapsing or being reformatted. All that was happening in the Verkhovna Rada last week (including rumours about...
Putin’ the NATO-Russia Founding Act to Rest
The United States is renegotiating its temporary military presence into a permanent arrangement with a NATO member state. While the country in question is not one you may expect, there is a dire need to boost deterrence capabilities via permanently stationed forces in member states with exterior borders. With Putin on the loose in Ukraine, the...
How Not to Monitor Russia’s Border With Ukraine
The OSCE has no unhindered access to check what and who enters Ukraine from Russia. That makes a mockery of the ceasefire in Ukraine and undermines the organization. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Between Military Non-Alignment and Integration
Alarmed by the Ukraine crisis and Russia’s military activity in the Baltic Sea region, Finland and Sweden are currently engaged in an intensive debate about their national security. Faced with a changing threat scenario, there is growing doubt in both countries about their current defence capabilities. Questions are also being asked about...
Can the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union Be Friends?
Lack of cooperation between the European Union and the Kremlin-dominated Eurasian Economic Union reflects a widening divergence in their political and economic objectives. The new economic union between Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Belarus has faced challenges in its first months. The economic sanctions against Russia and the fall of the...
Ukraine’s Volunteer Battalions Must Join the Military or Sheath the Sword
The Ukrainian army faces growing criticism from within its ranks after humiliating defeats at Debaltseve and Ilovaisk in eastern Ukraine. When fighting broke out between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists, the Ukrainian military was weak and the state had to rely on volunteers. Of the fifty thousand Ukrainian troops in the field, 22...
