Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Resolving the situation in Donbas may take many years
The second round of consultation with the contact group in Donetsk on 27 June ended with new agreements. The leaders of the self-proclaimed republics promised ceasefire until 30 June and the release of four OSCE observers in the nearest future. Also, the meeting resulted into an agreement to release hostages, informs the news agency Deutsche...
SIPRI Yearbook 2013 launch
On March 5, 2014 Razumkov Centre presented the Ukrainian version of the SIPRI Yearbook 2013: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security. The Yearbook published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) since 1969. This is one of the most respected sources of information in the field of international security. It is...
The Third Republic: Ukraine struggles its way through to Europe
For Estonian Center of Eastern Partnership visiting research fellow at the Razumkov Centre Aleksei Sekarev wrote policy paper “The Third Republic: Ukraine struggles its way through to Europe”. …read more Source: Razumkov...
The peace plan of President Poroshenko showed Kyiv above all sought peace
Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk spoke to the website Hlavred about the pros and cons of the peace plan of President Petro Poroshenko. There was a lot of criticism of the peace plan and its feasibility. However, I think it made some sense because Ukraine has once again...
Ukraine’s regional integration policies: The EU versus the Eurasian community
It would be a gross mistake to attribute its existence to the mere political preferences of any factually ruling political groups and their lack of desire to make a decisive choice …read more Source: Razumkov...
Ukrainian-Russian economic relations: unexpected changes and new challenges for Ukraine
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has been playing an extremely important, though permanently changing, role in Ukraine’s development. But the last 2013 year brought with it the most radical change in the scope and character of these relations, starting with serious tensions that pushed their mutual trade very close to...
Чим небезпечний тероризм в Україні?
Чим небезпечний тероризм в Україні? Олексій Мельник,...
Economic and social challenges of Ukraine after the change of power
The new Ukrainian leadership that came to power in the end of February 2014 has faced a set of substantial challenges the answer to which will decisively determine the level of its legitimacy, their public support and their ability to retain the power. The extreme level of difficulties that now Ukraine confronts are determined by a unique...
External discipline is needed to reform Ukrainian economy
Ukraine signed a sweeping economic and trade agreement with the European Union on last Friday, finally completing a trade deal that plunged it into a revolution and ongoing conflict with its closest neighbour, Russia. The deal would remove tariffs on around 98 per cent of the goods traded between Ukraine and the EU, and could begin the process of...
If Akhmetov had started to resist sooner, Donbass could have avoided huge losses
Each day at noon, hundreds of thousands of factory workers in Ukraine’s rebel hotbed pause as sirens blare for three minutes, a behavioral tool Rinat Akhmetov is using to help guard the country’s largest fortune, the Bloomberg writes. Still, the new government remains suspicious of the tycoon because he was closely tied to Yanukovych,...
