Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russia-Ukraine Gas Deal – Another Last-Minute Special
For the fifth time in eight and a half years, Russia and Ukraine signed another gas deal, literally at the eleventh hour, late evening on October 30 in Brussels. This time negotiations were conducted under the mediation of the European Union (EU) with six months of back and forth discussions, during which Russia ceased supplying gas to Ukraine...
Ukraine News Roundup | October 31
In Russian, Historians Join Kremlin’s Campaign to Label Ukraine ‘Nazi’ via Time Kyivans Rally for Reconstruction of Cinema Torched Amid Screening of LGBT Film via Kyiv Post Photo Essay: Chasing Vote Fraud and Dodging Attack in a Ukrainian Village via Quartz Video, Maps: The Brutal ‘Cease-Fire War’ Over Donetsk’s Airport...
Ukraine’s Election Delivers a New Generation of Leadership
In an exclusive interview, newly elected member of the Ukrainian Parliament, Hanna Hopko, shares her thoughts on post-election voter expectations and the challenges she and her party faces. Her party, the Samopomich (“Self-Reliance”) Party, polled at less than 5% before the election. But after the votes were counted, Samopomich is the third...
Moscow’s stance on the election in Ukraine
2014-10-29Agata Wierzbowska-MiazgaThe results of the election in Ukraine are not good for Moscow. The outcome is the price Russia needs to pay for its policy towards Ukraine. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s stance on the revolution and war
2014-10-30Tadeusz A. OlszańskiWe may expect the UOC to continue avoiding taking a clear stance on the present conflict. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
A strong vote for reform: Ukraine after the parliamentary elections
2014-10-29Tadeusz A. OlszańskiThis electoral result is a decisive victory for forces advocating the pro-Western orientation of Ukraine and reforms to its economy and social life. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
Cluster munitions scandal was arranged to discredit Ukraine
The experts from Human Rights Watch who reported the alleged use of prohibited cluster munitions by Ukrainian military officers near Donetsk Airport were misled in order to discredit Ukraine. This opinion was expressed by Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sungurovskyi, informs the website Halnet. According to Mr...
Video: Russia’s War, Ukraine’s History, and the West’s Options
In Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, history was presented as justification for war. Is there any resemblance between Russian justifications and historical consensus? What does it mean when ethnic claims trump international law? And should hate propaganda be seen simply as an instrument in one war, or an element of a larger strategy to...
Why Sending Weapons to Ukraine Would be a Terrible Idea for the US
The Ukraine Freedom Support Act, passed last month by the US senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, could mark a new kind of policy for the US in Ukraine. It doesn’t propose new sanctions, or the “major non-NATO ally” designation for Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, but instead grants permission to send Ukraine a variety of weapons,...
Ukraine News Roundup | October 27
Ukraine’s Democracy Problem: Letter from Kyiv’s 217th Electoral District via Foreign AffairsAmid Ukraine’s Election, the Battle of the Billionaires via Daily BeastUkrainians’ Biggest Need: A State That Works via der Spiegel Surgeon. Soldier. Mother. Pol. via PoliticoThe Oddity of Ilya Ponomaryov, Exiled Russian Legislator...
