Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Four Months after the Ukraine-Russia Truce, Putin Can’t Risk Implementing That Deal
The War at Donetsk’s Airport is On—For the Same Reason that Peace Talks Planned for This Week Are Off The intensified battle between Ukraine and Russia for the airport in Donetsk seems likely to be a fight over this month’s military message in the Donbas war. Russia’s army veterans, fighting as mercenaries, form the bulk of the...
Shameful Economic Secrets Exposed!
Conflict and sanctions reveal the squishy underbelly of the region’s economies. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Vucic Walks Rhetorical Line in Kosovo, U.S. Boosts Energy Ties with Bulgaria
Plus, CEE sees little exposure in Swiss franc’s surge, and Russia faces a ‘junk’ bond rating. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
‘Watchers of the Sky’: Awakening the World’s Moral Conscience
The mass killings of minority groups, which have occurred time and time again throughout history, are often beyond comprehension. How can humans be capable of such evil?But even more inexplicable and troubling is the fact that many of these atrocities have gone largely unnoticed. They have not received due recognition and response either from...
Ukraine’s Dignified Warrior: Nadia Savchenko Confronts Her Kremlin Captors
Paratrooper, Pilot, and now Parliament Member, Savchenko Pursues a Hunger Strike That Is Raising Public Pressure Against Moscow In seven months since a Russian-backed militia in southeastern Ukraine captured Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian paratrooper and pilot has become one of her country’s biggest icons in its war against the Russian...
Instead of implementing economic reforms, the government is increasing the fiscal burden
Director of Economic Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Vasyl Yurchyshyn commented to the magazine Krayina on how the Ukrainian government, instead of implementing economic reforms, had resorted to increasing the fiscal burden. There is a problem with how people understand reforms and how the government understands them. If reforms mean increasing...
Disappointment and fear – the public mood in Ukraine
2015-01-14In Ukraine, disillusionment caused by the lack of reforms and the worsening economic situation is rising. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
Putin and Ukraine: Expect more brutal aggression from Russia’s desperate leader
The renewal of fighting this week over the Donetsk airport in Eastern Ukraine– an important symbolic target for Russian proxy fighters—should come as no surprise. The U.S. and Western Europe should expect even more extensive Russia-directed attacks.Why? Because of the choice Vladimir Putin made five years ago, confirmed on his reelection in 2012...
Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands
Invitation OnlyResearch EventFrontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands15 Jan 2015 – 16:30 to 18:00Chatham House, London Russia and Eurasia Programme, Promise and Realism in Relations With Russia, Ukraine: East or WestParticipantsRichard Sakwa, Professor of Russian and European Politics and Head, School of Politics and International...
On Competition in the Banking Sector in Poland and Europe Before and During the Crisis
In the past decades, the banking sector has come to be known in literature as the banking industry as it was geared to increasing profits, banks were growing, and banking products developed dynamically. It was believed that competition in the banking sector makes banks more efficient and stimulates financial innovation opening new markets (Bikker...
