Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Foreign policy and the new Congress
Washington is awash with dreamers, those who consistently allow their beautiful hopes to trump history and reality. And in the world of foreign policy, those dreamers have been in overdrive. I’ve been told that the new GOP-dominated Congress is going to deep-six the Iran deal that Barack Obama desperately wants; that it’s going to arm...
Ukraine’s Holodomor: A Genocide Lost in the Pages of History
on Ukraine’s Holodomor: A Genocide Lost in the Pages of History… The post Ukraine’s Holodomor: A Genocide Lost in the Pages of History appeared first on Acton Institute PowerBlog.Related posts:The Famine Remembered: Lessons from Ukraine’s Holodomor and Soviet Communism Holodomor Ukraine in the Crosshairs: Its Ongoing Turbulent...
The Kremlin Reinvention of Ukraine’s History
For two hundred years, Ukraine and Russia have conflicted over Ukraine’s history and sovereignty. Recently the Kremlin has tried to rebrand large regions of Ukraine as Novorossiya, or ‘New Russia’. The Ukrainians are fighting back, however. Long-term implications of this change in attitudes have not yet fully dawned on the Kremlin,...
Ukrainian Cease-fire Under Threat, Resignations Rock Georgian Government
Plus, a Bosnian court strikes down the ‘two schools under one roof’ policy, and Washington ups the ante in its high-stakes influence game with Budapest. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Founder of London’s Ukrainian Business Centre elected to Ukraine’s parliament
Ruslan Demchak, the founder and owner of Ukrainian Business Centre in London has been elected to the Ukrainian Parliament in October’s election. Ruslan was elected as the member of Petro Poroshenko Bloc in the Vinnitsa region. Mr Demchak received 43,955 votes (51.68%), whilst his opponents Alexander Kachur from Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko...
Judy Asks: Can Poroshenko Reform Ukraine?
Every week, a selection of leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The Role of Ultra-Nationalism in Conflict and Crisis: Russia, Ukraine and the EU
This event will highlight the growing and complicated role of radical nationalist groups in European politics. It will focus on the positions of Russian neo-fascist, fundamentalist, and ethnocentrist groups towards the Kremlin’s recent foreign and domestic policies, as well as the complications resulting from Ukrainian nationalism in...
Why Ukraine’s future is vital to West
Ukrainians have voted, and they have overwhelmingly chosen to stay the course on European integration. …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Putin’s New Hot Frozen Conflict
It has been quite a year for Vladimir Putin, and a mark of shame to the West and the institutions of international law it thought it had created. In mid-2013, it became increasingly obvious that the Russian adventure in Georgia had neither been a one-off nor a taste of things to come. Putin had learned two things from 2008: The first, that he had...
Ukrainian Separatist Rebels Elect New Leaders for Breakaway Republic
Separatists recently held an election in the breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine, asserting their independence from Kiev. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
