Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Explaining China’s Position on the Crimea Referendum
China recognizes the complex historical dimensions of the situation in Crimea and remains committed to a diplomatic solution that considers the interests of all parties involved. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Voices During the Maidan as Captured by Public Radio Ukraine
A lot has been written about the Euromaidan in Ukraine. Many have written about their memories. Oral histories are being recorded. But what were people saying, at the time, as events were unfolding? …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Belarus’s Economic Crisis and National Unity
At present, news coming out of Belarus is marked by two particular refrains: the economic crisis and a search for national consolidation. These refrains may be interrelated since negative macroeconomic trends, coupled with a lack of structural reforms that would boost the private sector, make Belarus overly dependent on Russia. And in the absence...
Anti-Corruption Tide Sweeping Across Ukraine
As the fragile truce in eastern Ukraine has provided Kyiv with a respite from war, the Ukrainian authorities have begun to purge their own ranks. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who has been in charge of economic policy since the Maidan victory in February 2014, is having a hard time fending off corruption allegations. Ihor...
Apocalypse a bit later: The meaning of Putin’s nuclear threats
The words that Russian President Vladimir Putin chose for describing the nuclear angle of the special operation for seizing and annexing Crimea in March 2014, might appear so odd that it is well-nigh impossible to make sense of them. “Yes, we were ready,” he said to the question about whether the option of putting strategic forces on high alert...
Kaliningrad: ‘Just Another Russian Region’
How European is this formerly German, possibly nuclearized piece of Russia wedged in among its Western neigbors? From CEPI. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Post-Easter Attack Predicted in Ukraine, More Deaths on Bulgarian Border
Plus, hackers release text messages from Russia’s Internet watchdog and Belgium wants an Albanian pol in a murder case. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
It’s not in the interest of Poroshenko and Kolomoyskiy to fight with each other
Fifty-two-year-old oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskiy didn’t take the news lying down. Within hours of the parliamentary vote on March 19 he mobilized a group of armed men who barricaded themselves in UkrTransNafta’s offices in Kyiv, the Deutsche Welle reports. “After that compromise between the politicians the threat is minimized to almost...
Putin’s dogs
Co-director of foreign affairs and international security programmes at the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk contributed to the Kyiv Post newspaper about the role of Putin’s dogs in Russian foreign policy. …read more Source: Razumkov...
2 kwietnia, 16.00 CET: webinarum o polityce ekonomicznej Ukrainy
2 kwietnia o godz.16.00 Centrum Analiz Społeczno-Ekonomicznych oraz portal Why Emerging Europe zapraszają na pierwsze z cyklu webinariów poświęconych tematom społeczno-ekonomicznym w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej. W dyskusji o polityce ekonomicznej Ukrainy udział wezmą: Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow w Peterson Institute for International Economics i...
