Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
This is what Putin really wants
At a news conference in Budapest on February 17, Russian president Vladimir Putin engaged in one of his favorite pastimes: sparring with journalists. One reporter asked if Putin thought the newly brokered ceasefire in Ukraine’s Donbas region would hold. If not, what would Russia do if the United States sent weapons to the Ukrainian army?...
Ukraine’s Sick Economy Presents a Stern Test
February 26, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global Interests...
Kiev Sees Ukraine Truce Holding, Withdraws Heavy Artillery From Front
February 26, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global Interests...
Cease-Fire Appears to Take Hold in Eastern Ukraine
February 25, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global Interests...
Kremlin Sought Annexation of Crimea Before Ukrainian Government’s Collapse, Russian Paper Says
February 25, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global Interests...
Merkel Says Ukraine Ceasefire Slow to Take Hold but May Yet Work
February 25, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global Interests...
CASE welcomes professor Oleh Havrylyshyn as our new Fellow
We are delighted to announce that professor Oleh Havrylyshyn, an Economic Advisor to the Presidential Administration of Ukraine and a former Deputy Minister of Finance and International Affairs of Ukraine, has joined our team and became one of CASE Fellows. Mr. Havrylyshyn has been a professor at Toronto University and the Joint Vienna Institute...
Ukraine: A Cuban Missile Crisis in Reverse
In a rather ghastly 19th century experiment, a biologist by the name of Heinzmann found that if he placed a frog in boiling water, the frog immediately leapt out but that if he placed the frog in tepid water and then gradually heated it, the frog stayed put until he was scalded to death. Are we like the frog? I see disturbing elements of that...
Russian Paratroopers Train Near Baltic Borders, Central Asians Nabbed in U.S. Terror Plot
Plus, Mongolia frees foreign businessmen in a tax-dodge case and Macedonia’s students kill a new measure on university exams. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
5 questions every presidential candidate should answer: Russia Edition
While George W. Bush began his presidency seeing in Russian President Vladimir Putin a friend and a partner, by the end of Bush’s presidency, US-Russian relations were strained. The two governments verbally sparred over the US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002, and the US invasion of Iraq the following year. Tensions...
