Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukrainian Freedom Fund Launched – New Initiative to Support the Ukrainian Army
The Ukrainian Freedom Fund (UFF) was officially launched at a press conference in Kyiv today, April 29th, to help centrally collect and convert donations into support for military units located on the Ukrainian State Borders. The Fund, set up three weeks ago through a joint initiative of Andrew Bain, President and Owner of Atlantic Group, one of...
Andy Hunder: Putin More Afraid of Banks than Tanks
Ukrainian Institute Director Andy Hunder spoke at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre in Kyiv earlier in April, 2014. “What UK is focusing now is on the role it can play as we understand that Vladimir Putin is more afraid of the banks than tanks”, said Andy Hunder, Director of the Ukrainian Institute in London, during a briefing at the...
Ukrainian governments’s forces has tried to cut off the rebels’ supply from Russia
Ukraine’s government now faces a choice on how to end the insurgency if it pursues the military option: use more heavy shelling, as in Slovyansk, or engage in an urban guerrilla war in the center of Ukraine’s fourth-largest city, the Aljazeera reports. The Ukrainian government’s antiterrorist operation thus far has tried to...
The EU Association Agreement will allow Ukraine to obtain funding from the IMF
Director of Economic Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Vasyl Yurchyshyn shared his thoughts on whether Ukraine can receive another tranche of international financial assistance, based on conclusions of the monitoring mission of the IMF, with the news agency UNIAN. As to reforms being conducted, one should admit that there are areas where changes...
After Ukrainian forces were restructured, the operations became more effective
When pro-Russian rebels first fanned out across eastern Ukraine in April, seizing public buildings, ousting local officials and blockading streets and highways, the government’s security forces – a ragtag lot of poorly equipped and understaffed military and police units – were largely paralyzed by dysfunction and defection. They...
Despite recent improvements, Ukrainian military’s work is far from done
When pro-Russian rebels first fanned out across eastern Ukraine in April, seizing public buildings, ousting local officials and blockading streets and highways, the government’s security forces – a ragtag lot of poorly equipped and understaffed military and police units – were largely paralyzed by dysfunction and defection. They...
Meeting with representatives of the Sobieski Institute
On 14 April 2014, the Razumkov Centre held a working meeting with representatives of the Sobieski Institute (http://www.sobieski.org.pl), one of the leading think tanks in Poland – Mr. Pawel Soloch, member of the management board and Mr. Pawel Szalamacha, deputy to the parliament (Sejm) from the Law and Justice party. The Razumkov Centre...
Neutrality won’t help Ukraine avoid the aggression of Russia
The ideal security assurance for Ukraine is NATO. Neutrality won’t save it from the aggressive Russia. This opinion was expressed by Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sungurovskyi, informs the news agency Ukrinform. “Ukraine has to either rely on its resources or resort to external assurance in the form of...
New publication “Ukraine-2014: Socio-Political Conflict and the Church. Positions of Religious Figures, Experts and Citizens”
This publication contains the materials of a regular Roundtable on “Religion and Authorities in Ukraine: Problems of Relations” held on May 15, 2014. The meeting discussed issues concerning the status of the Church as a civil institution. The publication contains documents of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious...
Public opinion survey “Citizens attitude towards different types of territorial organisation”
In the end of December 2013, the Razumkov Centre had conducted a survey to determine the public perception of different options for territorial organisation. According to the survey results, the majority of Ukrainians oppose the idea of having a federal state (61% of citizens expressed negative views and only 16 % were positive about it). The...
