Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
What Would It Take to Restore a Peace Order in Europe?
Western leaders’ recent attempts to assure a diplomatic resolution of the Ukraine crisis may come to no avail. Is it possible to restore the peaceful, European status quo amidst such rapidly growing East-West animosity? Eurasia Outlook asked Carnegie’s experts to share their thoughts. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for...
Ukraine’s Fate Hangs in the Balance in Minsk, Once Again
The leaders of France, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine are set to meet in Belarus’ capital Minsk on February 11 to hammer out a deal to end the fighting in eastern Ukraine. The meeting takes place against a backdrop of a worsening conflict as Russian-backed separatists made a push to take new territory and consolidate their strongholds in what...
Critical Ukraine Talks Open, EU Pushes New Energy Agenda
Plus, mixed Albanian-Serb court set for north Kosovo; Russian media watchdog slams Twitter’s frank talk. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
A meeting with Deputy Head of the EU Advisory Mission
On 28 January 2015, a meeting of the representatives of the Razumkov Centre with Deputy Head of the EU Advisory Mission for Civilian Security Sector Reform Ukraine (EUAM Ukraine) Yuh Fantu. The Razumkov Centre was represented by Director General Anatoliy Rachok and Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes Oleksiy...
Findings of the sociological study “Public Opinion: 2014 in Review”
The study was conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Sociological Service of the Razumkov Centre from 19 to 24 December 2014. 2,008 respondents aged over 18 in all the regions of Ukraine (except Crimea) were interviewed. Sampling error – 2.3%. The survey was conducted within the project of the Public Sociology...
Ukraine: The War Must Go On?
As terrible as it sounds, Kyiv’s endless dysfunction is the Kremlin’s most powerful ally in the current crisis-a point that is glossed over in Western policy debates on sending lethal aid to Ukraine. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
NATO’s Russian ‘reset’: Less is not more
Since the 1990s, the United States has been drawing down its forces in Europe under the assessment that the security situation on the Continent was largely and increasingly benign. Indeed, after the Balkan conflict, from an operational point of view, much of the military infrastructure, force structure, and alliance effort was increasingly in...
Debate Over Arms for Ukraine Must Not Split West
10 February 2015 John LoughAssociate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme As they struggle to stop the fighting in Ukraine, Western leaders must not lose sight of Putin’s attempts to reshape the international order. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama hold a joint press conference after a meeting in the White House...
Has Russia Divided the West?
On February 6, German Chancellor Merkel, French President Hollande, and Russian President Putin spent five hours negotiating a Ukraine peace deal in Moscow. At the end, the only thing they agreed on was to continue negotiations. Donald Jensen, resident fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, reviews the West’s latest diplomatic...
Putin’s ‘Flying Gunboats’
Against the backdrop of tense relations over Ukraine and Crimea, Russia has increased Tu-95 ‘Bear’ nuclear bomber flights on the boundaries of UK and NATO airspace. What is the Kremlin’s viewpoint and is the implied nuclear threat to European NATO members credible? …read more Source: Royal United Services...
