Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Why has the West forgotten about Crimea?
One year after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in a brazen act that violated international treaties and rewrote Europe’s borders for the first time since World War II, Western governments and the media have largely forgotten the peninsula’s plight.In Russia, however, that land grab is far from forgotten. Crimea annexation day will...
Ukraine in a Leaderless Europe: A Net Assessment (Part Three)
*To read Part One, please click here. *To read Part Two, please click here. Ukraine’s EuroMaidan movement triggered two conflicting processes: Ukraine’s resolute, unambiguous course toward Europe (reinforced by subsequent presidential and parliamentary elections) and Russia’s response through a multidimensional war against...
Putin Celebrates First Anniversary of Seizing Crimea
During a mysterious period of absence from public view, controversy erupted around Russian President Vladimir Putin sharing his reflections on the annexation of Crimea in 2014, after a trailer for the documentary was screened on March 11, 2015. By March 15, following the Russian president’s ten-day disappearance from public view, the...
What the Russian Propaganda Machine Can’t Change
The effects of state propaganda and carefully worded poll questions mask the Russian population’s majority Western orientation. By Sergey Aleksashenko, Former Deputy Finance Minister of Russia By now it has become banal to say that Russia’s intensive state propaganda campaign has had a significant impact on domestic public opinion....
Obama’s Asia policy flounders
Thanks to some bold rhetoric and high-profile visits over the past years, Barack Obama’s Asia policy has by and large been seen as a bright spot in his foreign policy. Compared to the disastrous failure to anticipate or contain the Islamic State, the flatfooted response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, his Hamlet-like...
Russia Rules Out Returning Crimea to Ukraine
March 17, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Cold Reception for Kyiv’s Autonomy Offer, Papal Envoy Welcomed in Belarus
Plus, details of Russian ‘troll factories’ emerge and Hungary adjusts to new restrictions on Sunday shopping. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kremlin: Crimea Will Not Return to Ukraine
Russia said on Tuesday it would not hand back Crimea to Ukraine, despite warnings by the United … …read more Source: American Security Council...
Schäuble: New Greek government has again destroyed trust
Schäuble: New Greek government has again destroyed trustGerman Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble told a conference yesterday, “The new Greek government has again destroyed all the trust that had been won back…Until November, Athens was on a road that could have led it to exit the crisis. This has gone. I don’t know what to do now with...
Corporate debt securities market in Poland: state of art, problems, and prospects for development
The development of the Polish corporate bonds market resulted from changes from the supply side. When the Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, Polish entrepreneurs realized that financing their companies’ operations only with the use of credit, even if contracted from different sources, might not be the best idea. Consequently, Polish business...
