Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine’s Pro-European Parties in Coalition Talks, Poland Shifts Troops to East
Plus, slumping oil prices force Kazakhstan to trim its budget; Baltics welcome floating energy platform. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Hungarian Protests Swell, Fugitive Russian Official Held in Rome
Plus, a dramatic new museum of Jewish life opens in Warsaw; teacher shortage grows worse in Kyrgyzstan. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kremlin Media Arm Set to Go Global, Bosnian Serbs Imprisoned for ’92 Massacre
Plus, Rosneft denies pitching a laundry list of sanctions remedies, and a new report traces Uzbekistan’s cotton profits. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Promises, Promises
A majority in Ukraine’s new parliament has signed on to reforms, but activists are holding their breath. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Today’s Corruption Video: Which Ukrainian Officials Own These Palaces?
The former director and deputy director of Ukraine’s state-owned gas company, Naftogaz, will have been waiting today to hear if they are elected to Ukraine’s parliament, not least because winning seats would offer them immunity from prosecution. Prosecution for what? …read more Source: Atlantic...
Ukraine Counts Its Votes: Here Is What They Mean
Official Tallies Are Tracking With Polls Predicting a Strong, Pro-Europe and Reformist Coalition With 71 percent of Ukraine’s ballots counted today, the official results are broadly tracking the recent days’ polls, suggesting that Ukraine’s next government will be a pro-European coalition built across several political parties,...
Ukrainians Vote for a European Future and for Reform
Parliament Election is a Defeat for Russia’s Putin: How Will He Respond? If Sunday’s exit poll accurately depicts Ukraine’s parliamentary vote, the outcome is a stunning victory for reform and a pro-European orientation—and a big defeat for Russian President Vladimir Putin. It immediately raises the question whether Putin will...
George Soros on Ukraine: Europe Is Sleeping Through Its Decisive Fight
Billionaire investment magnate and pro-democracy philanthropist George Soros has sounded what he says is a wake-up call to Europe (and to the United States) over a failure to see that it is “facing a challenge from Russia to its very existence.” You can read here his full 3,200-word essay for the New York Review of Books, or take in his main...
A Night in War-Shattered Lugansk: Russian Soldiers Share Vodka with Western Journalists
‘You Didn’t See Us Here,’ Officer Admonishes, as Moscow Keeps Military Options in Ukraine As Ukrainians elect a parliament this weekend, new evidence pops up of Russia’s military role in their country: Western journalists this week found destroyed Russian tanks in Donetsk—and very live (if somewhat drunk) Russian soldiers happy...
Ukraine Gas Deal May Show That the West’s Sanctions on Russia Are Working
The gas supply deal signed in Brussels yesterday among Russia, Ukraine and the European Union “is perhaps the clearest indication yet that sanctions imposed on Russia are working in terms of changing Russia’s behavior,” writes Timothy Ash, an economist who directs emerging markets strategy at Standard Bank in London. …read more...
