Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine’s Constitutional Court Crisis
The upset may prove to be a turning point for the current administration.Ukraine is facing a crisis over its constitutional court which analysts warn presents a watershed moment for President Volodymyr Zelensky. In late October, the court issued a shock ruling that parts of Ukraine’s anti-corruption legislation were unconstitutional. The...
PJSC Tatneft v Bogolyubov and Legal Professional Privilege in English Law
In the recent case of PJSC Tatneft v Bogolyubov & Ors [2020] EWHC 2437 (Comm) the English Commercial Court held that legal advice privilege applies to communications between clients and their in-house lawyers in foreign jurisdictions regardless of the status of the lawyer in that jurisdiction. The dispute arose out of a Ukrainian oil...
History Still Strains Poland-Ukraine Relations
Progress remains slow, despite wide ranging shared interests.Historic tensions between Kiev and Warsaw continue to affect their strategic partnership, despite recent attempts to heal the wounds of the past. Ukraine and Poland have long struggled to reconcile differences over historical narratives dating from WWII, with mass wartime graves on both...
Biden’s Deep State
Philosopher Hannah Arendt once wrote about the banality of evil, and there’s never been a more banal bunch than the foreign policy and security state crew Barak Obama surrounded himself with for eight years beside the possible exception of Bush’s own Neocons. Now after three years screaming about “Russian collusion” it...
Biden’s transition team is filled with war profiteers, Beltway chickenhawks, and corporate consultants
An eye-popping array of corporate consultants, war profiteers, and national security hawks have been appointed by President-elect Joe Biden to agency review teams that will set the agenda for his administration. A substantial percentage of them worked in the United States government when Barack Obama was president. The appointments should provide...
Neocons Poised to Join New Government
Donald Trump was much troubled during his 2016 and 2020 campaigns by so-called conservatives who rallied behind the #NeverTrump banner, presumably in opposition to his stated intention to end or at least diminish America’s role in wars in the Middle East and Asia. Those individuals are generally described as neoconservatives but the label...
How did 5 million hectares disappear? Secret land privatisation in Ukraine
On 6 November, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, announced during the presentation of the results of the economic audit of Ukraine that 5 million hectares of agricultural land had disappeared from state ownership. He thus confirmed the words of the head of the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre (also named, the State...
America Rejoins the World?
America may well be divided about Donald Trump, but the rest of the world isn’t. The soon-to-be-former president has gotten high marks in the Philippines and Israel, a passing grade in a couple African countries and India, and dismal reviews pretty much everywhere else. U.S. allies in Europe and Asia are particularly relieved that Joe Biden...
Russia’s Stake in the Nagorno-Karabakh War: Accident or Design?
As the world discusses the sudden cessation of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh and the deployment of Russian “peacekeepers”, one critically important question is overlooked. Why did Russia not discourage Azerbaijan’s military offensive? A powerful security rationale implies a strong Russian interest in deterring a war that might change the...
US Color Revolution: The Not So Phantom Menace
“There is no civility, there is only politics…The Bureaucrats are in charge now…”— Senator Palpatine The Black Revolution in the US is proceeding according to script. We are into the 3rd act of it. Act I was the Coronapocalypse setting the stage for vastly expanded government powers and the systemic undermining of the sitting President. Act II...