Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Color Revolutionaries of the World, Unite! Hong Kong Protest Leader Pictured with White Helmets Boss
Hong Kong protest figurehead Joshua Wong, who has been rocking up to “pro-democracy” meetings with various Western officials in recent weeks, has been spotted hanging out with the chairman of the White Helmets in Berlin. Wong attended the “Bild 100” summer party in Berlin this week, where he seems to have bumped into White...
Repressions and electoral fraud: regional elections in Russia
Annual regional and local elections were held on 8 September in Russia. The officials elected included 16 governors, members of 13 regional parliaments (including in the occupied territories: Crimea and Sevastopol), city mayors, city council members and municipal councillors. For the Kremlin, the elections to Moscow City Duma (city council) and...
Trump the Russian Puppet. A Story That Just Will Not Die
Certainly, there are many things that President Donald Trump can rightly be criticized for, but it is interesting to note how the media and chattering classes continue to be in the grip of the highly emotional but ultimately irrational “Trump derangement syndrome (TDS).” TDS means that even the most ridiculous claims about Trump behavior can be...
A Post-Soviet “War and Peace”
What Tolstoy’s Masterwork Explains About Putin’s Foreign Policy On February 23, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the final day of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the most expensive winter games to date and the first hosted by an Eastern-bloc country since the Soviet Union’s collapse. Amid the fanfare and the...
La guerra in Ucraina: quali prospettive di soluzione?
07/10/2019Turin, Campus Luigi Einaudi The seminar, organized in cooperation with the University of Turin, the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, and in particular with the CISP – Centro Interateneo di Studi per la Pace will deal with the annexation of Crimea and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war in Donbass region, the Western...
Russia Will Likely Collapse from the Inside
St. Petersburg, Russia, photo via maxpixel.netBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,286, September 11, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Russia is historically prone to internal collapse, as is shown by numerous examples from both the imperial and Soviet periods. The collapse usually takes place as Russia rests on the laurels of recent military victories...
Russia and Ukraine exchange prisoners
After months of negotiations, on 9 September an exchange of prisoners took place between Russia and Ukraine, each side sending 35 people. According to media leaks, Ukraine had initially demanded the release of 150 prisoners, while the list submitted by Russia named 34 people. …read more Source:: Centre for Eastern Studies...
New hopes, old risks: the prospects for settling the conflict in Donbas
A working meeting was held on 2 September in Berlin as part of preparations so-called Normandy Format summit (leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France) for settling the conflict in Donbas. This will be the first such summit since 2016. …read more Source:: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Muhammad Dahlan and the Deal of the Century
Muhammad Dahlan, image via TwitterBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,279, September 5, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A controversial former security official and Abu Dhabi-based political operator, Muhammad Dahlan, has lurked for several years in the shadows of Palestinian politics. It is possible that he will emerge in an attempt to pave the way for...
Boko Haram: Bloody Terror, No End in Sight
Every year, Boko Haram, which has gained a foothold in the neighboring African countries of Cameroon, Chad and Niger, appears to be growing stronger. Suicide bombings and other deadly attacks committed by Boko Haram terrorists over the past decade have …read more Source:: Gatestone...
