Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Arctic energy: The new geopolitical hotspot?
The Arctic nations – Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States – have generally managed to overcome contentious issues amicably, thereby ensuring that the region remains largely peaceful. However, things may be changing now. In fact, according to the UK-based consultant group Polarisk, 2015 may see the Arctic...
Minsk Plans Another Round of Ukraine Talks, Slovaks to Vote on Gay Marriage
Plus, Serbia’s military chief faces new Kosovo allegations, and Mongolia gets a taste of SMS democracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russian Marine, Home From Donetsk Battle, Says ‘A Lot of Russian Military’ Are Fighting in Ukraine War
Troops from Russia’s Pacific Far East Region Are Prominent in a War 4,200 Miles to the West The Russian island of Sakhalin, in the Pacific Ocean just north of Japan, is fully a continent away from the war raging in southeastern Ukraine. But Konstantin Gorelov, a 22-year-old, active-duty Russian naval infantry commando, made the 4,200-mile...
The Baltic states on the conflict in Ukraine
2015-01-23Joanna Hyndle-HusseinThe Baltic states’ reaction to the threat from Russia has demonstrated that the level of cooperation between them is low. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
All Quiet on the Eastern Front: Equilibrium Ad Interim in East Asia
While dreadful news continues to pour out of Ukraine and the Middle East, East Asia appears to have found an equilibrium-at least for the time being. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
West Mulls Response to Escalation in Ukraine, Azerbaijan Extends Reporter’s Detention
Plus, warnings of a ‘new authoritarianism’ in the Balkans and mounting repression in Kazakhstan. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia: Strelkov’s nationalist movement is reactivated
2015-01-28Katarzyna JarzyńskaWitold RodkiewiczThe Novorossiya movement has been out of the public eye and it is no accident that its reactivation has coincided with an escalation of clashes in Ukraine. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
Saving Global Order
Around the world, personal liberty, human rights, and democracy are at risk, while the international community is deeply divided, blocking progress on challenges ranging from the crises in Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine to climate change and trade. Three factors – all likely to persist this year – are driving these unsettling trends. …read more...
Symbols and Sentences
On March 11, 2014, three activists, Oleg Savvin, Mikhail Feldman, and Dmitry Fonarev, hoisted a German flag at Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) building in the city of Kaliningrad. Now, each of them is facing a seven-year sentence for their symbolic protest against Russian aggression in Ukraine. According to writer Alexander...
Notes on a Conspiracy
Ratings agencies, the UN, Hollywood, the Saudis – are they all against Russia? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
