Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russian Passport, Please!
A new law requiring registration for dual nationals is sowing confusion and consternation. From openDemocracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Swallowing South Ossetia
Russia and South Ossetia are about to sign a “Treaty of Alliance and Integration.” The Kremlin is confronting the same dilemma it faces in Moldova and Ukraine: the closer it holds on to separatist territories, the further it pushes the big state away from Russia and towards the West. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Nuland Starts European Tour in Romania
US Assistant Secretary is due in Romania to discuss worrying regional developments concerning Ukraine and Russia before joining John Kerry in Bulgaria. …read more Source: Balkan...
Rajan Menon on Ukraine’s Defense: Build an Army, and New Strategic Relationships
Author of New Book on Ukraine Conflict Urges Careful Priorities for Kyiv Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Rajan Menon, chairman of political science at the City College of New York, has just co-authored a new book, Conflict in Ukraine with Eugene Rumer of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The book, to be published in March by MIT...
As Ukraine Finances Sink Below ‘Life Support,’ the West Gropes for Loan Money
Slowly Dribbling Out Help May Cost More in the End, George Soros and Economist Tim Ash Write Ukraine’s finances are now “beyond life support,” says economist Tim Ash as its foreign reserves dropped last month to their lowest level in more than a decade. Ukraine’s official reserves, now $7.5 billion, are less than half of what the...
Eastern Ukraine: Investigate deadly artillery strike on civilian bus
Headline Title: Eastern Ukraine: Investigate deadly artillery strike on civilian bus 13 January …read more Source: Amnesty...
It is very unlikely that the SBU got rid of all Russian spies
235 agents, including the former counterintelligence chief and his cousin, and hundreds of other operatives believed to be working for Moscow, have been arrested and 25 high treason probes against Yanukovych-era SBU officials have been launched. After the arrests, Nalyvaichenko boldly stated that “all traitors” have been purged from the SBU – a...
Russia facilitates opening of the problem parts of the border with Ukraine
According to experts, the main problem along the Ukrainian-Russian border is that the demarcation line between the countries is constantly violated because Russia doesn’t make any effort to prevent dangerous elements from travelling into Ukraine from its territory, the Southeast European Times writes. “The main problem of border control is...
Ukrainian Soldier in Russian Prison Continues Hunger Strike, Russian Soldier Held in Armenian …
Plus, Ukraine’s fugitive former president ends up on Interpol’s list, and the Czech crown is this year’s laggard. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Why we like Ike
In a recent column, Commentary’s Seth Mandel contends that Dwight Eisenhower was no great model for conservatives — that, in fact, his foreign policy was “muddled, improvised, confused, and often shallow.” Mandel further contends that there is already a robust, reigning GOP foreign-policy consensus, which Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) does...
