Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Is Putin about to make a costly mistake in Belarus?
By Steven PiferFrom 2001 to 2004, I was the senior American official to visit Belarus. The United States and European Union were thoroughly dissatisfied with President Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s authoritarianism, and US policy mandated that no official higher than a deputy assistant secretary travel to Minsk. EU officials and EU member states...
How (and Why) Russia Won
A state of continuous semi-war has served the Kremlin well.Western naivety and a lack of solidarity has allowed Russia to behave “like a powerful rogue state”, argues author and former Guardian Moscow correspondent Luke Harding. He told IWPR that Russia was more interested in zero sum foreign policy games than reaching mutually beneficial...
US Government-Funded Coda Story Smears American Journalists Who Undermine New Cold War Propaganda
A shadowy neoconservative website called Coda Story has launched a smear campaign against American journalists who challenge new cold war propaganda. But what this publication has not disclosed is that it is funded by the US government, backed by the European Union, linked to the NATO war alliance, and part of a larger network of regime-change...
The Armenian model for Belarus
While many Western observers have seized on Ukraine’s 2004-5 and 2014 revolutions to understand the mass protests in Belarus, a much better analogy is Armenia’s democratic transition in 2018. …read more Source:: European Council on Foreign...
‘Regime Change’ in Belarus Looks Like an Objective of Both the Trump Administration and the Biden Campaign
It seems that whoever wins the presidency, United States foreign policy will keep chugging away at intervening across the world, including via “regime change” efforts. Over the last couple decades, targets for US-government-supported overthrow have included Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and Venezuela. Belarus also appears to be...
What Will Trump Do to the World to Win Re-Election?
In 2016, Alan Lichtman departed from conventional wisdom to predict a Donald Trump victory in that year’s presidential election. The political scientist was following something he called the “13 keys to the White House.” Using this relatively straightforward metric, Lichtman had correctly predicted the outcome of presidential elections...
Between Neighbours: How Does Russia View the Election Aftermath in Belarus?
In Moscow all eyes are on Belarus. Russia and Belarus are intimately connected, so political actors in Russia feel an immediate connection with developments there. In formal terms the two countries form a “union state” and an economic and defence community. Belarus is Moscow’s closest ally and a linchpin for Russian neighbourhood policy....
Unter Nachbarn: Der russische Blick auf die Nachwahlproteste in Belarus
In Moskau blickt man in diesen Tagen gebannt auf Belarus. Für alle Seiten stehen die Entwicklungen dort in unmittelbarem Zusammenhang mit der politischen Situation im eigenen Land. Denn die russische und die belarussische Politik sind aufs engste miteinander verquickt. Formal bilden die beiden Länder einen Unionsstaat sowie eine Wirtschafts- und...
Russia’s Troubles with Its “String of Pearls”
A Russia-backed rebel armored fighting vehicles convoy near Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine, May 30, 2015, image by Mstyslav Chernov via Wikimedia CommonsBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,678, August 6, 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: For geopolitical reasons, Russia has been building a chain of separatist states near its borders since the 1990s. However, as...
Russia’s “Passportisation” of the Donbas
Russia has so far issued almost 200,000 Russian passports to Ukrainians from the “People’s Republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk. This undermines the Minsk peace process. The passportisation of the Donbas is part of a tried and tested set of foreign policy instruments. Russia is deliberately making it more difficult to resolve territorial...