Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Croatian President Tempers Rhetoric for Sarajevo Visit, Hungary Classifies Details of Russian …
Plus, more outbreaks of mystery diseases in Kazakhstan and traces of a dictator vanish from a Russian gulag camp where thousands toiled on his orders. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
UK secures important victory at ECJ to preserve the single market
UK secures important victory at ECJ to preserve the single marketThe General Court of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) this morning ruled in the UK’s favour in its case against the ECB over the location of the clearing of euros outside of the Eurozone. The Court ruled that the ECB’s opinion, that central counterparties which clear...
View from Madrid: Spain’s balancing act on sanctions
Spain’s approach to sanctions against Russia has shifted as the crisis over Ukraine has escalated. …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
Senator Edwards Says G8 Leaders Must Stand Up to Russia
BRUSSELS (April 30, 2006) — Senator John Edwards closed Brussels Forum today by urging Americans and Europeans to work together on many of the major issues the three-day conference addressed. “It is Iran’s nuclear ambitions that pose the greatest single security threat to the United States and Europe,” Edwards said. “The international...
The Battle of the Fifth Columns
On February 17–18, the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Sir Suma Chakrabarti, paid a visit to Minsk and met with President Alyaksandr Lukashenka (ONT, February 17). This was the first trip by an EBRD president to the Belarusian capital since the mid-1990s. On February 20, Belarus also hosted Edgars...
Looking at the Crisis in Ukraine through Russia’s Eyes
Colorado’s Honorary Consul General to Russia Deb Palmieri sought to challenge the West’s perception of the situation in Ukraine at a recent Fireside Chat and Reception at the Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colorado. …read more Source: Aspen...
A Moscow visit for President Park Geun-hye
President Park Geun-hye should go to Russia in May with several goals in mind, not the unitary goal of meeting the North Korean leader Kim Jung-un or improving inter-Korean relations in a significant way. As a wartime ally of the United States, the Soviets had agreed to fight in the Pacific theatre against Japan, the former colonizer of the...
Obama’s Keystone XL pipeline veto
Experienced vote counters do not believe that either the House or the Senate will muster the two-thirds majority necessary to override President Obama’s veto of the Keystone XL pipeline bill. If so, Mr. Obama’s years of delay and disingenuousness on this issue, culminating in his veto, will guarantee negative consequences for America...
Fighting in Ukraine Has Killed More Than 840 Since Mid-January, U.N. Says
March 3, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
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“It is [the] bigotry of lower expectations [to say] that Russians will always favor a strong man over democracy.” — Mark Lagon
Unsurprisingly, Freedom House’s recent 2015 Freedom in the World report has shown a decline in civil liberties in Russia. Mark Lagon,* the new president of Freedom House, spoke with IMR’s editor-in-chief Olga Khvostunova about Russia’s current political trajectory, Putin’s stakes in the Ukraine conflict, and what the West...
