Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
On foreign policy measures to force Russia to make peace
This refers to increasing the role of the UN Security Council in this process, which is now limited to Russia’s right of veto against any draft resolution of the SC aimed against it. It is proposed not to initiate any reform of the UN (it is a long and controversial process) but to use existing opportunities stipulated in the UN Charter....
Participation in the Europe–Ukraine Forum in Lodz (Poland)
The delegation of the Razumkov Centre, which included Deputy Director Y. Yakymenko, Co-directors of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes M. Pashkov and O. Melnyk, Director of Energy Programmes V. Omelchenko, and Leading Expert of Political and Legal Programmes V. Zamiatin, took part in the VII Europe-Ukraine Forum, held in Lodz...
Participation in the meeting of the Strategic Discussion Club
On 11 February 2015, in Mykolayiv, a meeting of the Strategic Discussion Club was held within the project of the Institute of World Policy Strategic Discussion Club in the Regions of Ukraine, which is implemented with support of the Government of Norway. The aim of the project is to conduct public discussions of the tools for ensuring security...
Participation in the visit of the Ukrainian delegation to Germany
On 26-30 January 2015, Leading Expert of Political and Legal Programmes of the Razumkov Centre V. Zamiatin participated in the visit of the delegation of Ukrainian politicians (which included people’s deputies from the factions of Blok Petra Poroshenka, Narodnyi Front, and Batkivshchyna of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine) to the Federative...
The Russian threat to Lithuania: An interview with Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius
Editor’s note: Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius took part in a roundtable on February 25 with Brookings and outside experts to discuss the threat to his country and to the region from Russia. In an interview with the Order from Chaos blog, the foreign minister said that the threat to Lithuania is not a conventional one, but...
How to contain Russia without a new Cold War
The debate over whether to arm Ukraine is obscuring a more fundamental strategic choice for the United States— how to deal with Putin’s Russia. The fracturing of the relationship between Russia and the west is about much more than control over provinces in eastern Ukraine. It has to do with a fundamental difference over how to constitute...
Armenia and Turkey: From normalization to reconciliation
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the Winter 2015 edition of Turkish Policy Quarterly. Exactly one century ago in March 1915, the British and French navies, together with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), attempted to force their way through the Turkish Straits to attack Istanbul and open a new front...
This is what Putin really wants
At a news conference in Budapest on February 17, Russian president Vladimir Putin engaged in one of his favorite pastimes: sparring with journalists. One reporter asked if Putin thought the newly brokered ceasefire in Ukraine’s Donbas region would hold. If not, what would Russia do if the United States sent weapons to the Ukrainian army?...
Ukraine’s Sick Economy Presents a Stern Test
February 26, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global Interests...
Kiev Sees Ukraine Truce Holding, Withdraws Heavy Artillery From Front
February 26, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global Interests...
