Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Audio: Formulating a New Foreign Policy Approach toward Russia, Lunch Keynote
Please join us for an important discussion that will assess the new dynamics in Europe’s security landscape and evaluate the challenges of the past year in light of the upcoming one-year anniversary of the Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine. read more …read more Source: Center for Strategic and International...
Only sanctions against Gazprom will significantly affect the Russian economy
Restrictive measures of the U.S. and the EU will become a real threat to the Russian economy only when sanctions against Gazprom are imposed. This opinion was expressed by Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk, informs the news agency TSN. The expert also noted that the next...
‘Nothing is True and Everything is Possible’
A new book presents a Russia with no rules and no certainty in tomorrow. From openDemocracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Iohannis Romps in Romania; Those Armed Armenians Are No ‘Flashmob’
Plus, Ukraine’s president orders an end to state funding for rebel areas, and it’s back to the future for Kazakhstan’s leader. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Putin on Ice
Russia’s de facto recognition of the elections held by separatists in the Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Luhansk signals its intention to create a frozen conflict in the Donbas region’s rebel-controlled areas. The question is why Russian President Vladimir Putin views such a conflict as a positive outcome for his country. …read...
Frozen Donbas?
Ukraine is in the process of forming a new government. President Putin has a say in the development of this process by threatening an invasion. And now he can be almost certain that the West will not go to war with Russia over Ukraine. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
A budget roadmap for rebuilding US military strength
The self-evident strain showing across the US military — due to a relentless pace of operations after Iraq and Afghanistan combined with six years of budget and capability cuts — is of increasing concern in the halls of Washington. Growing bipartisan calls, like that of the National Defense Panel, to reverse recent budget decisions and rebuild...
Russia, Ukraine, and the Visegrad: Time to Get Real
The crisis in Ukraine has betrayed fault lines in the Visegrad Group. Unless Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic change course, the “golden age” of Central Europe may come to an end. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Ukraine News Roundup | November 14
Now That Russia Has Invaded Ukraine Again, Let’s Stop Pretending a Cease-Fire Ever Existed via New RepublicAs Putin’s Threatens Eastern Europe, Ukraine’s Defense Is What Will Contain Him via PoliticoSentenced to Death by a Crowd: Justice Under a Russian-Proxy Warlord of Eastern Ukraine (Video) via Vice News Putin’s Revised...
Hungary PM Dismisses U.S. Memo on Corruption, Russia’s Arctic Waters a Nuclear Time Bomb
Plus, Lithuania wraps up its probe into the 1991 crackdown and Moldova attacks corruption in preschools. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
