Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine: Situation Report and Needs Assessment
06MarInvitation OnlyResearch EventUkraine: Situation Report and Needs Assessment6 Mar 2015 – 10:30 to 12:00Chatham House, London Russia and Eurasia Programme, Ukraine: East or WestParticipantsNatalia Halibarenko, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, UkraineDownload ResultsOverviewThis event will focus on key issues in Ukraine’s...
Russian Opposition Leader, Boris Nemtsov, Killed in Moscow
[View the story “Nemtsov, a Putin critic, was to address rally denouncing Russia’s role in Ukraine” on Storify] …read more Source: Atlantic...
Moscow Again Putting Separatist Regions in Play Against Georgia
On February 18, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the head of the “Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia,” David Sanakoev, signed an agreement “On the State Border,” whereby Russia recognized the “state borders” of South Ossetia (Bigmir.net, February 20). A similar prepared treaty with the other separatist Georgian...
Will the West Bail out Ukraine?
The war in Ukraine’s eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk did not stop when 2014 came to a close. Therefore, the $27 billion two-year assistance package, promised to Ukraine by the West last May, has turned out to be insufficient to keep the country afloat. In mid-February 2015, the leading industrial nations and international financial...
The Normandy Format and Ukraine: Doing More Harm Than Good
The foreign affairs ministers of Russia, Germany, France, and Ukraine—the “Normandy Four” countries—met on February 24, in Paris, to review the situation in Ukraine’s east. Russian and proxy forces had captured Ukraine’s Debaltseve area on February 18, breaching the armistice signed at the “Normandy Four” summit in Minsk on February...
Getting colder: Cooperating with Russia in the Arctic
Is it possible to isolate the well-established mode of Arctic cooperation from the disruptive impact of the Ukraine crisis? Many stake-holders in cooperative projects with Russia keep insisting on an affirmative answer and seek to bracket out tensions emanating from such obscure locations as Debaltsevo or Mariupol. The European Union (EU), which...
Greek PM may not give Greek parliament a vote on bailout extension
Greek PM may not give Greek parliament a vote on bailout extensionGreek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said he will decide in the next 48 hours whether to allow the Greek parliament to vote on the extension of the country’s financial assistance programme, following concerns about dissent in his own party. In a vote held behind closed...
Inequalities in a globalized economy
Language English The current mainstream economic debate on inequalities is determined mainly by the situation in individual high-income economies. We also talk about the problem in the context of crisis of a traditional welfare state, bearing in mind original inefficiencies, consequences of population aging, and consequences of globalization –...
Inside Ukraine
Watch this meeting live on Monday, March 2, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. (ET). Experts dissect Ukraine’s politics, policies, and options going forward. …read more Source: Council on Foreign...
The Risk Of Not Moving Quickly To Develop A New U.S. Rocket Motor
Last year, as Moscow began its campaign to conquer the Ukraine and relations between the West and Russia deteriorated, the U.S. Senate passed a law forbidding the U.S. military from buying additional launch services from any company using Russian-designed or [Read More…]The post The Risk Of Not Moving Quickly To Develop A New U.S. Rocket...
