Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements
Leaders from Germany, France, Russia, and Ukraine met in Belarus to negotiate a ceasefire between Ukrainian troops and separatists. The ceasefire takes effect February 15, 2015, and outlines the withdrawl of heavy weapons and constitutional reform to provide more automony to groups in the Donetsk and Luhansk, regions in eastern Ukraine....
A Glimmer of Hope in Ukraine?
A new deal that would end the fighting between Ukrainian security forces and Russian-backed separatists is being met with skepticism amid an escalation in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.“This is essentially the same ceasefire that failed before, so I expect the same issues to arise: Kyiv’s control of the border, lack of removal of...
Minsk 2 – a fragile truce
2015-02-12Szymon KardaśWojciech Konończuk The document will bring only a temporary halt to the ongoing conflict in the east of Ukraine. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
Building Bridges in Georgia
On February 12, the International Peace Institute, with the support of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, held a meeting in Belgrade to explore new approaches to improving relations between Georgia and the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.The meeting, entitled “Conflict Dynamics and Prospects for...
Ukraine: Protect civilians in contested areas like Debaltseve
Headline Title: Ukraine: Protect civilians in contested areas like Debaltseve 12 February …read more Source: Amnesty...
Doubts Cloud Ukraine Cease-Fire, Azerbaijani Dissident Holed Up in Swiss Embassy
Plus, another Romanian politician ends up in handcuffs and Uzbekistan gives a popular commenter early prison release. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Some Croats Fighting in Ukraine Army, Pusic says
Foreign Minister Pusic has confirmed that some Croats are fighting for the government army in Ukraine – but denies they are fighting in paramilitary units. …read more Source: Balkan...
Bosnia Presidency Condemns Arms Sales to Ukraine
Bosnia’s tripartite presidency has coe out against the planned export of arms to war-torn Ukraine after Bosnian Serb leaders complained that the trade threatened ties to Russia. …read more Source: Balkan...
Merkel Alone
The German chancellor has done everything possible, excluding using force, to end the war in eastern Ukraine. Now, she needs wide support to make a new peace accord stick. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Why Vladimir Putin can not be trusted – Radio interview with Andy Hunder, Ukrainian Institute, London
Andy Hunder, The Globalist, Monocle 24, February 12, 2015, 6AM, London Click here to listen to Radio interview with the Ukrainian Institutes’s director, Andy Hunder, on the morning of Thursday, 12 February, 2015, minutes before a peace deal was announced in Minsk, explaining why Vladimir Putin can not be trusted The Globalist, Monocle...
