Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Putin’s War Has Consolidated Ukraine
Viewed historically, the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war is the product of four deeper causes and one trigger. First, the Soviet empire’s collapse in 1991 propelled its successor state, Russia, to seek reimperialization for structural and ideological reasons. Second, the emergence of a “fascistoid” (or almost fully fascist) regime made imperial...
Chechnya Threatens to Send Weapons to Mexico If U.S. Arms Ukraine
March 26, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine: An Oligarch Brought to Heel
March 26, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Kyrgyzstan Courts EU, Russia; Human Traffickers Busted
Plus, a jailed Azerbaijani journalist sees her family, and a Chechen lawmaker threatens to send big guns to Mexico. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine’s Powerful Billionaire Governor Quits After Clash With Kyiv
Dnipropetrovsk’s Kolomoyskyi: Patriotic, Corrupt, Threatening—Or All Three? Ukrainian billionaire politician Ihor Kolomoyskyi resigned today as governor of Ukraine’s strategically critical Dnipropetrovsk province after clashing with the central government and parliament over control of two state-owned oil-sector companies. In that...
Senior US Official: Corruption Ukraine’s ‘Second War’
The United States is closely watching signs of possible major anti-corruption moves in Ukraine i… …read more Source: American Security Council...
The Fed’s dollar question
A key question for the Federal Reserve in the months ahead will be the U.S. dollar’s future direction. That question will have a crucial bearing on the appropriate timing of the start of the Fed’s interest rate hiking cycle. If it is thought that the dollar’s recent strengthening is likely to be reversed, the Fed would be...
2 April, 16.00 CET: webinar on Political Economy of Ukraine
On 2 April, 16.00 CET, CASE will broadcast a first webinar on the up-to-date topics relating to CEE countries: http://emerging-europe.com/webinars/webinar-4-2/ The webinar will be dedicated to the Political Economy of Ukraine. Their input to the webinar will give: Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics,...
The EU’s Dangerous Indulgence of Moldova
By countenancing a bunch of venal pols, as long as they’re pro-EU, Brussels erodes its own support among Moldovans. From openDemocracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The EU Eastern Partnership Needs More Attention to Security
On March 6-7, 2015, the EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs reached the conclusion that the EU Eastern Partnership (EaP) requires transformation and further development. The current situation in the EaP Region, frozen conflicts, and aggression against Ukraine demands more attention to the security dimension of the EU initiative and it is very...
