Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Amid Rising Regional Tensions, Turkmenistan Reevaluates Neutrality Policy
For the last two decades, Turkmenistan has adhered to a foreign policy of strict neutrality. But the drawdown, in neighboring Afghanistan, of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission has coincided with the appearance of Islamic State (IS) militants in that war-torn country. The two factors have combined to compel Turkmenistan to...
Ukraine in a Leaderless Europe: A Net Assessment (Part Two)
*To read Part One, please click here. Most of the “old” Europe—pre-1999 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union—does not acknowledge the wider implications of Russia’s war in Ukraine (let alone the fact that it is a war). That group treats this war, instead, as an internal conflict localizable in...
VIDEO: Putin’s Third Term – Interview with Richard Sakwa, University of Kent
Russia’s turbulent 2014 has prompted numerous questions on the country’s long-term trajectory under the leadership of President Vladimir Putin. Can Russia rebound from its current economic crisis? What, if any, vestiges of cooperation with the West exist for 2015 and beyond? What is the Kremlin’s domestic policy and how is it...
From Medicine to Passports, Mediators Help Ukraine’s Roma Get What They Need
During a time of change, a group bridges the gap between Ukraine’s disenfranchised minority and social services. …read more Source: Open Society...
From Munich to Kyiv
As many as 50,000 Ukrainians and Russians may have died so far in Russia’s war against Ukraine, with almost two million expelled from their homes. Yet the leaders of the democratic West refer to Russia’s aggression on the territory of a foreign state in a type of Orwellian newspeak. …read more Source: Project Syndicate (Czech...
Ukraine Holds Talks to Ease Debt Burden
March 13, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Poland Looks to Buy Cruise Missiles, Cyberspace Buzzes With Putin Rumors
Plus, Spain refuses to extradite a Kazakhstani dissident and speculation about a political murder plot galvanizes Albania. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Stand with Ukraine
…read more Source: Open Society Foundations
How dangerous is Vladimir Putin? Russia’s biggest threat comes from the East
The bad news is that, as shown by Russia’s invasions of Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014, President Putin is the most revisionist leader in Moscow since his Soviet predecessors launched the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The good news is that, in Russia’s conflict with the West, the United States and Europe hold most of the...
Germany Again Warns Against Lethal Weaponry for Ukraine
Germany’s top diplomat has warned against supplying Ukraine with lethal weaponry in its fight ag… …read more Source: American Security Council...
