Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
London’s top Ukrainian Business Event of the Year to take place this week
This Week in London – the 9th annual Ukrainian Investment Summit, taking place on December 9/10 at theRiverbank Plaza Hotel in London. The speaker line-up is now finalised! The final additions to the speaker panels include: Mohammad Zahoor, the Chairman of ISTIL Group and owner of the Kyiv Post newspaper, who will join the session of CASE STUDIES...
After Crimea – A Brave New World
Dr. Leonid Gozman, long-time democratic activist and president of the Union of Right Forces, will analyze the current Russian crisis.Directions: Directions to the Wilson Center …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Online Freedom Slips in Russia, Ukraine; Kyiv Announces Another Cease-Fire
Plus, Hungary protests McCain’s ‘dictator’ comment and a green kitty turns heads in Bulgaria. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Grozny Attacks and Russia’s Relationship with the West
One of the most important consequences of the dramatic violence in Grozny may be the impact it has on Russia-Western relations. Amidst a stand-off with the West over Ukraine, the Kremlin may interpret this terrorist acts as “Western attempts to fuel instability inside Russia.” …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Ukraine News Roundup | December 4
It’s Not Just Ukraine: Putin Has the Whole Region Cornered via PoliticoPifer: Congress Should OK Arms for Ukraine, but Not Sanctions on Russia via The HillUkrainian Journalists Oppose Kyiv’s New Information Ministry via RFE-RLVideo: Yale Historian Tim Snyder on Ukraine and Us via Chicago Humanities FestivalEuroMaidan One Year Later...
Ukraine’s New Foreign-Born Ministers Vow to Accelerate Economic Reforms
US- and Lithuanian-Born Officials Will Be Independent, Competent—and New to Governing in Kyiv The race is on. With Ukraine’s finances running thin and the country needing a bigger bailout from its western allies, the country’s new cabinet took office this week pledging to floor the accelerator on the spending cuts and reforms needed...
Clinton’s stock declining in futures market
Is the market in Hillary Clinton futures collapsing? Quite possibly so.A year ago Clinton seemed likely to become the next president. Presumably she and her husband had not yet started to call themselves, Bush style, 42 and 45. But she had an overwhelming lead in the polls for the Democratic nomination and was getting 50 percent or more in most...
Happy holidays from the Saudis and shale oil
While Americans were enjoying their thanksgiving feast this year, they received an extra blessing from two sources: the shale (cheaper) oil revolution and Saudi Arabia. Due to pressure from a surge of shale oil supply coupled with weaker global demand for energy, oil prices had, by the week before Thanksgiving, dropped about 30 percent from $110...
Putin Promises Economic Reforms, Coal Shortage Threatens to Chill Ukraine
Plus, Lukashenka lashes out at a Russian food ban and South Caucasus rivals wage a proxy war over the region’s favorite bread. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Another negotiation in Donbas proves that Russia is a party to the conflict
Ukrainian military officers and militants of the LPR group agreed on a ceasefire, starting on 5 December, according to the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, informs the news agency Radio Liberty. On Radio Liberty, Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk referred to the...
