Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Central Asians Fighting in Ukraine May Lead to Tensions With Russia
On March 17, the Russian and Kyrgyzstani services of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) published a long interview with a citizen of Kyrgyzstan identified as Manas (not his real name), who said he had fought alongside the Moscow-backed pro-Russia separatists in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. A retired officer and former graduate of...
The Kremlin’s Game of Threats
Last week (March 19), speaking at an annual conference of the Union of Russian Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)—Russia’s main business lobbying group—President Vladimir Putin promoted a previously announced financial amnesty. Putin implied that Russia’s super-rich must repatriate their capital back from abroad and out of...
Less-Stringent Minsk II Terms Paved the Way for Renewed Sanctions
On March 19, delegates at the European Union Summit in Brussels agreed to extend tough sanctions against Moscow—until year’s end if necessary—to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to implement the Minsk II ceasefire. Under terms of that deal, signed on February 12, EU sanctions won’t be lifted until Ukraine takes back full control...
Crimea, one year after the annexation: the end of the honeymoon?
2015-03-25Ewa FischerJadwiga RogożaThe past year of Crimea as part of the Russian Federation has shown that any resolution of the peninsula’s problems seems unlikely in the near future. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
German Power and the Ukraine Conflict
The Ukraine crisis has revealed both the strengths of German foreign policy-diplomatic skill and economic power-and its weakness-a lack of military muscle. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Putin’s War Has Consolidated Ukraine
Viewed historically, the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war is the product of four deeper causes and one trigger. First, the Soviet empire’s collapse in 1991 propelled its successor state, Russia, to seek reimperialization for structural and ideological reasons. Second, the emergence of a “fascistoid” (or almost fully fascist) regime made imperial...
Chechnya Threatens to Send Weapons to Mexico If U.S. Arms Ukraine
March 26, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine: An Oligarch Brought to Heel
March 26, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Kyrgyzstan Courts EU, Russia; Human Traffickers Busted
Plus, a jailed Azerbaijani journalist sees her family, and a Chechen lawmaker threatens to send big guns to Mexico. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine’s Powerful Billionaire Governor Quits After Clash With Kyiv
Dnipropetrovsk’s Kolomoyskyi: Patriotic, Corrupt, Threatening—Or All Three? Ukrainian billionaire politician Ihor Kolomoyskyi resigned today as governor of Ukraine’s strategically critical Dnipropetrovsk province after clashing with the central government and parliament over control of two state-owned oil-sector companies. In that...
