Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Liberty in Search of Protector – Interview With Vaclav Klaus
Please see below excerpts from a Global Gold interview with former Czech President and Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus. To read the entire interview, please click here. -ed.Liberty is a fundamental human right; it is the cornerstone of our existence. But liberty is under attack from all directions, whether through higher state control or individuals...
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...
EU-Russia Relations and the Ukraine Crisis
Invitation OnlyResearch EventEU-Russia Relations and the Ukraine Crisis12 Feb 2015 – 14:00 to 15:30Chatham House, London Russia and Eurasia Programme, New Faces from Russia, Promise and Realism in Relations With RussiaParticipantsSergey Utkin, Head, Department of Strategic Assessment, Centre for Situation Analysis, Russian Academy of...
Ukraine’s Gas Industry Reform: Rhetoric and Reality
Invitation OnlyResearch EventUkraine’s Gas Industry Reform: Rhetoric and Reality28 Jan 2015 – 16:30 to 18:00Chatham House, London Russia and Eurasia Programme, Ukraine: East or WestParticipantsPaul Sampson, Senior Correspondent, Energy IntelligencePhilip Vorobyov, Commercial Executive, JKX Oil & GasOverviewThis event will discuss...
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...
