Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Ukraine military system has failed to execute the war effort properly
Even with backing from the U.S. and the European Union, the Ukraine military system has failed to execute the war effort properly, said Co-director of the Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes at the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk, the Bloomberg writes. As shelling leveled the Donetsk airport and damaged villages and towns...
Beijing Extends Moscow a Helping Hand, Russian Allies Proffer Ukraine Mediation
Plus, Belarus cracks down on foreign currency trading, and Hungary struggles to deal with an influx of illegal immigrants. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Justice Delayed
Slow progress in Ukraine’s probes of the Maidan killings is testing the patience of activists and victims’ families. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Are low gas prices good or bad?
Oil prices have been falling — and with them the quality of reporting and writing about this periodic event. Stock market “guru” Laszlo Birinyi (just to select one of many annoying examples) claims that “It [the oil price drop] is just a black swan. It comes clearly out of the blue. Four standard deviations out of anything else [ie, exceedingly...
Q&A: Global Arms Trade Treaty enters into force
Headline Title: Q&A: Global Arms Trade Treaty enters into force 22 December 2014 …read more Source: Amnesty...
Zbigniew Brzezinski on Russia and Ukraine
CSIS Counselor and Trustee Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski talks to Colm Quinn on the changing fortunes of the Russian economy, and Russia’s next steps under Vladimir Putin and beyond. …read more Source: Center for Strategic and International...
Putin Leaves All Options Open on Economic Crisis and Ukraine War
Pascual: With Russia’s Economic Downturn, West Should Probe Chances of a Merkel-Brokered Deal In his annual press conference this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered no clear suggestion for how he proposes to dig Russia out of its deepening economic hole. And he signaled no new direction in government’s sponsorship of the...
Measuring Ukraine’s War on Corruption: Key Signs to Watch in Early 2015
As Ukraine’s new government has taken office and vows to clean up endemic corruption—publicly perceived as Europe’s worst, according to Transparency International—here are some leading indicators of its progress, as suggested by the Atlantic Council’s Kyiv-based senior fellow, Brian Mefford. You can find his full essay on this...
EU Slaps New Sanctions on Crimea, Might Drop Them for Yanukovych Cabal
Plus, Poland raises veto threat on UK immigration curbs, and the ruble’s tumble falls hard on Russia’s neighbors. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
US defense cuts may undermine security in Western Pacific
In its January 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance (DSG), the Obama Administration stated that the United States “will of necessity rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region.”1Yet one month later, the administration released its 2013 defense budget request, including $487 billion in cuts mandated under the 2011 Budget Control Act (BCA), which provided...
