Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Kremlin’s Secret War: Soldiers’ Families Shattered and Silenced
A Vice News Documentary Shows What Russia Is Hiding—and How Since last summer, when President Vladimir Putin’s government first deployed major units of Russian conventional army troops to fight in its war against Ukraine, the Kremlin has used state secrecy, propaganda, intimidation, and violence to conceal the story. Police have obstructed...
The Kremlin’s Secret War, and the Silent Soldiers’ Families It Has Shattered
A Vice News Documentary Shows What Russia Is Hiding—and How Since last summer, when President Vladimir Putin’s government first deployed major units of Russian conventional army troops to fight in its war against Ukraine, the Kremlin has used state secrecy, propaganda, intimidation, and violence to conceal the story. Police have obstructed...
Timmermans: Public need to have confidence that EU free movement does not undermine national welfare systems
Timmermans: Public need to have confidence that EU free movement does not undermine national welfare systemsSpeaking in London yesterday at a Policy Network conference, European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans argued that “Public support will dwindle if the public thinks that free movement means undermining of social security systems…...
US and Allies Risk War with Russia by a ‘Hesitancy on Ukraine’
Wilson: Only the US Can Lead in Defending Europe Against Putin’s Rising Ambition The United States and its allies must confront the aggressive actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin because failing to do so will escalate his ambitions—perhaps to the point of forcing a war with NATO, the Atlantic Council’s Damon Wilson told the US...
Doomsday in Ukraine? Think Again
In the short term, Ukraine is on the verge of economic and, perhaps, political collapse. Yet in the longer term, the real question is whether the emergence of a coherent Ukrainian national identity creates a solid consensus for reform of the state and a sustained Western trajectory. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The parliamentary elections in Estonia
2015-03-04Joanna Hyndle-HusseinThe victory of the ruling Estonian Reform Party proves that the situation in Ukraine has turned this party into Estonians’ guarantor of state stability. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Finishing What Yanukovych Started
Has wartime turned Ukrainians and their media into well-meaning but misguided censors? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Before Russia’s Next Offensive, Obama Should Take the Lead
Burns: Give Arms to Ukraine, More NATO Cover to Baltics—and Leadership for Europe President Barack Obama has given space for Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel to lead recently in the Western response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. But it’s now time for the US president to take the reins back, writes former Undersecretary of State...
Burns: Before Russia’s Next Offensive, Obama Should Take the Lead
Provide Weapons to Ukraine, More NATO Cover to Baltics—and Leadership for Europe President Barack Obama has given space for Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel to lead recently in the Western response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. But now, writes former Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, it’s time for Obama to take the reins...
As Russia Prepares a Next Offensive, It’s Time for Obama to Lead
Provide Weapons to Ukraine, More NATO Cover to Baltics—and Leadership for Europe President Barack Obama has given space for Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel to lead recently in the Western response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. But now, writes former Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, it’s time for Obama to take the reins...