Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Disintegration Of The World
Image credit: pedrosek, ShutterstockOther Mediaquoting Michael McFaulvia The Atlantic“Was ExxonMobil worried about a skirmish in Georgia? I doubt it, but now companies like that one care a lot about the details of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The conflict in Donetsk is being closely watched day by day by multinational corporations and is...
Russia needs a Middle East crisis: Will delivering S-300s to Iran help?
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision on lifting the ban on delivering to Iran the S-300 surface-to-air missiles took many experts by surprise, but U.S. President Barack Obama noted with perfect indifference that for him the only surprise was “that it held this long.” In fact, Putin’s timing was impeccable, since nobody could...
From Putin, a New Tune on Ukraine?
Vladimir Putin’s annual call-in show is not where I usually look for important statements of Russian policy. Most of the four-hour event is devoted to semi-comical political pandering (Mr. Putin presenting himself as the friend of struggling dairy farmers, for example). Still, last week’s extravaganza contained unmistakable hints of a...
Albanian Militants Stage Incident on Macedonian Border, Life Sentences for Russian Nationalist …
Plus, Azerbaijan considers Iran’s weapons offer in sign of growing rapport; Turkmenistan bans privately owned satellite dishes. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The EU is not ready to waive the visa regime with Ukraine beacuase of the war in Donbas
Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykhailo Pashkov told the Gordon.ua website about the barriers to Ukraine getting visa-free regime with the EU. Most likely, at the Riga Summit, the progress of Ukraine towards meeting the requirements of the European Union to get visa-free regime will...
Ukrainian economy requires the production of goods with high value added
Development of the Ukrainian domestic market is hampered by limitations in business, wage freeze, lack of investment, and high interest rates. This was stated by Director of Economic Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Vasyl Yurchyshyn, informs the magazine Tyzhden’. According to him, currently there are no factors at the expense of which the...
Ukraine Conflict Attracts Foreign Fighters – on Both Sides
April 22, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Belarus in the Run-Up to New Elections
Belarus’s presidential elections are going to take place on November 15, 2015. This time, the pre-election period promises to be less eventful than in 2001, 2006 or 2010. The opposition has failed to consolidate and promote either a single candidate as in 2001, two candidates as in 2006, or multiple, unelectable but still recognizable and...
Russia’s Information Warfare Targets Washington and NATO
On April 16–17, the fourth Moscow International Security Conference was held amidst continued disagreement between Russia and the United States and its allies over Ukraine. As usual, the conference was addressed by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as well as Army-General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the General...
U.S. Trainers to Ukraine
Around 300 U.S. troops from the 173rd Airborne Brigade arrived in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv last week to begin training Ukrainian National Guard forces. read more …read more Source: Center for Strategic and International...
