Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Founder of London’s Ukrainian Business Centre elected to Ukraine’s parliament
Ruslan Demchak, the founder and owner of Ukrainian Business Centre in London has been elected to the Ukrainian Parliament in October’s election. Ruslan was elected as the member of Petro Poroshenko Bloc in the Vinnitsa region. Mr Demchak received 43,955 votes (51.68%), whilst his opponents Alexander Kachur from Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko...
Judy Asks: Can Poroshenko Reform Ukraine?
Every week, a selection of leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Why Ukraine’s future is vital to West
Ukrainians have voted, and they have overwhelmingly chosen to stay the course on European integration. …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
The Role of Ultra-Nationalism in Conflict and Crisis: Russia, Ukraine and the EU
This event will highlight the growing and complicated role of radical nationalist groups in European politics. It will focus on the positions of Russian neo-fascist, fundamentalist, and ethnocentrist groups towards the Kremlin’s recent foreign and domestic policies, as well as the complications resulting from Ukrainian nationalism in...
Putin’s New Hot Frozen Conflict
It has been quite a year for Vladimir Putin, and a mark of shame to the West and the institutions of international law it thought it had created. In mid-2013, it became increasingly obvious that the Russian adventure in Georgia had neither been a one-off nor a taste of things to come. Putin had learned two things from 2008: The first, that he had...
Ukrainian Separatist Rebels Elect New Leaders for Breakaway Republic
Separatists recently held an election in the breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine, asserting their independence from Kiev. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Ukraine News Roundup | November 4
Separatist Elections in Donbas Were a Step Toward Permanent Stalemate via New Republic Dangerous Duty: The Donbas Volunteer Who Retrieves Bodies from the Battlefield via Mashable Ukraine’s Revolutionary No. 1 Goes to Parliament via Bloomberg Among the Rebels: Welcome to the Cossack People’s Republic of Stakhanov via Politico On...
Kyiv May End Cease-Fire, Russian Bug Infects CIS Economies
Plus, oil majors compete for Croatian oil and gas tenders; Latvia’s controversial Ask.fm teen site relocates to Ireland …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Parliamentary election is a break between Ukraine’s future and Soviet past
Any electoral outcome will probably leave Poroshenko’s basic Western-oriented policies in place. But he may feel pressure to show a harder line against Russia and the rebels, since anti-Russian voices will gain in number and former Yanukovych allies, who were friendlier to Russia, will fade, writes the Washington Post. “This is a break...
The People’s Front won the party-list vote because Ukrainians trusted Yatsenyuk
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on his parliamentary party today to support Arseniy Yatsenyuk as prime minister, saying the country needs to be united “as never before” following Oct. 26 elections, the Bloomberg writes. The People’s Front won the party-list vote because Yatsenyuk campaigned on “clear messages” and many...
