Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine’s Other War: Parliament Advances Anti-Corruption Fight
Lawmakers Vote to End Their Immunity from Prosecution Members of Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, overwhelmingly passed a bill to end their own legal immunity from prosecution, one of the main laws that for years helped Ukraine to the top of Europe’s corruption charts. Article 80 of Ukraine’s constitution protects all...
The Other War: Ukraine Wins a First Big Battle Against Corruption
Parliament Votes in Landslide to Remove its Own Immunity from Prosecution Members of Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, overwhelmingly passed a bill to end their own legal immunity from prosecution, one of the main laws that for years helped Ukraine to the top of Europe’s corruption charts. Article 80 of Ukraine’s...
Ukraine Fighting Continues As Truce Nears; Minsk Host Says Coffee, Cheese Helped Fuel Talks
Plus, Kosovo minister wants EU to stanch flow of asylum-seeking migrants, and Bulgaria is under fire over juvenile prison conditions. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Croatia Press Review – February 13, 2015
Moscow says Croatian fighters in Ukraine are breaking the Minsk agreement; programme for new president’s inauguration revealed; US ambassador Kenneth Merten says world should not act towards Russia as if everything is OK. …read more Source: Balkan...
Still together, but apart? Kyiv’s policy towards the Donbas
2015-02-06Tadeusz IwańskiThe Ukrainian government has launched a series of actions to adapt the country to the de facto loss of control over part of the Donbas. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
What Did Minsk II Actually Achieve?
The agreement and the subsequent joint declaration of the “Normandy Four” lay the political groundwork for peace. Still, questions remain about the feasibility of a ceasefire, and the will of Russian, Ukrainian, and separatist leaders to implement the mechanisms necessary to resolve the conflict. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for...
Making Ukraine’s ‘Glimmer of Hope’ Sustainable
If Russia Permits, the Minsk Accord Could Be a Start for Stabilizing Donbas The ceasefire agreement signed by Russia and Ukraine on in Minsk on 12 February offers what German Chancellor Angela Merkel calls “a glimmer of hope, no more no less” for constricting, and eventually ending, the war in southeast Ukraine’s Donbas region. Whether that...
Russia’s Military Advance in Ukraine Wins It Advantages in New Truce Deal
‘Minsk II’ Accord Will Let Moscow Keep Pumping Arms, Fighters into Ukraine War With thousands of Ukrainian troops nearly surrounded in Donbas by the freshly armed, Kremlin-directed rebel militias, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko accepted the Minsk II agreement February 12. The new accord is clearly less advantageous to Kyiv than...
PowerLinks 02.13.15
on PowerLinks 02.13.15… The post PowerLinks 02.13.15 appeared first on Acton Institute PowerBlog.Related posts:Ukraine in the Crosshairs: Its Ongoing Turbulent Relationship with Russia Russian Evangelicals, Like Most Russians, ‘Thank God for Putin’ PowerLinks 12.12.13 …read more Source: Acton...
RAND Experts Discuss the Options for Ukraine
A cease-fire agreement could stop the fighting in Ukraine by Sunday. RAND experts William Courtney and Olga Oliker discuss what was accomplished during the summit in Minsk, whether the U.S. should arm Ukraine, and what other options exist for supporting Ukraine. …read more Source:...
