Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Ukraine’s forbidden Church marks 25 years of freedom
25 years ago I belonged to the single largest banned religious community in the world. The Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church was, until December 1989, the most sizeable officially banned religious organisation, persecuted by Soviet authorities for 43 years. The Church, somewhat miraculously, managed to survive “underground”, in the Gulags, in exile...
Transitioning Neighborhood: Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine
Nearly a year after demonstrations erupted in Kyiv, Ukraine is forming a new government and considering the way forward after the recent parliamentary elections. Moldova faces parliamentary elections at the end of the month in which the survival of the current pro-European coalition is at stake. Belarus has been the seat of the Minsk process, the...
Is Russia planning a winter offensive?
The buildup of separatist forces in Donetsk, Ukraine, and Moscow’s patently confrontational tone are raising the specter of another offensive in eastern Ukraine before winter grips the region. On Wednesday, NATO warned that “columns of Russian equipment, primarily Russian tanks, Russian artillery, Russian air defense systems and...
The Greek exit, part II
One has to be struck by the financial market’s present equanimity about Europe’s deteriorating economic and political outlook as reflected in very low European sovereign bond yields. The reason for astonishment is not simply that all-too-many indicators suggest that a highly indebted European economy appears to be heading for a...
Fears of ‘Full-Scale’ Fighting in Ukraine, Azerbaijan Downs Armenian Helicopter
Plus, Russia goes to court to shutter a human rights group and Bosnian farmers try to keep out cheaper EU milk. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia will direct its efforts at supporting instability in the Donbas
With Kyiv lacking the military might to break the rebels by force, Western allies now fear that a large chunk of Ukrainian territory will become a Russian protectorate with a parlous economic future, beyond the writ of the central government, the Reuters reports. “We have now realistically entered the phase of a ‘frozen conflict’,”...
Putin’s Project Sparta
As the US Congress Reconvenes, It and Europe Must Respond to the Kremlin’s Coming Offensive in Ukraine Russia has moved a massive wave of tanks, armored personnel carriers, and artillery into Ukraine’s Donbas region in recent days, accompanied by new uniformed troops without insignia, to bolster the armed forces of the...
