Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ground Truth Briefing | Ukraine: Presidential Election Update
Please note: Ground Truth Briefings are conducted exclusively by phone. There will be no physical meeting at the Wilson Center. On March 31, Ukraine will hold its presidential election. Three candidates currently lead in the polls: the incumbent President Petro Poroshenko, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and comedian and actor Volodymyr...
Why There’ll Be No US-Russia Reset Post-Mueller
President Donald Trump and his White House team may have been cleared of collusion with the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election. That startling conclusion by Special Counsel Robert Mueller after nearly two years of investigation, might be viewed by some as giving Trump freedom to now get on with normalizing relations with Moscow....
Turkey: accelerating the diversification of gas supply sources
A rapid change in the structure of gas imports by Turkey has been visible since the beginning of 2019. According to estimates from the ICIS energy market information provider, in the first two months of this year Turkey bought almost the same number of LNG cargoes as it did in the whole of 2018, and is continuing to buy more on the spot market....
Pre-election gambit: Gazprom’s offer to Ukraine
On 22 March a meeting took place in Moscow between the Russian prime minister Dmitri Medvedev and the chairman of Gazprom Aleksei Miller and the pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians Viktor Medvedchuk and Yuri Boyko (the latter is a candidate in the presidential elections in Ukraine. The Russian side declared its readiness to sign a new contract for...
Ukraine’s Unpredictable Presidential Elections
Members Event 30 April 2019 – 6:00pm to 7:00pmAdd to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House | 10 St James’s Square | London | SW1Y 4LE Mary O’Hagan, Resident Senior …read more Source: Chatham...
Russia Throws Down the Gauntlet to US on Venezuela
The Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova acknowledged in Moscow on Tuesday that Russian “specialists” are indeed in Venezuela within the ambit of a 2001 military-technical cooperation agreement with Caracas. Zakharova underscored that Russia’s bilateral military cooperation with Venezuela is in accordance with the latter’s...
Not Mueller Time: Hey, MSM, This Dud’s For You!
Now that the giant Mueller Nothingburger (with a side of crow-flavored fries, per Jim Kunstler) has been officially delivered unto the mainstream media’s wailing and gnashing of teeth, the essence of the matter should be obvious: To wit, the RussiaGate Collusion story was always way above the pay grade of the legal sleuths and gunslingers...
Trump’s Golan is a Megalomaniac’s Own Goal
The US President Donald Trump’s decree on March 26 granting official US recognition to Israel’s illegal annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights does not create any new fact on the ground. Trump’s motivations are fairly clear — boost Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s prospects in the April election where the...
Transatlantic Security Cooperation Toward 2020
Introduction Internal and external challenges have reshaped the transatlantic security partnership in an unprecedented way since the election of Donald Trump in 2016. He has accelerated the evolution in U.S. leadership that had begun during the presidency of Barack Obama and also questioned his country’s traditional alliances in a new way....
Why Ukraine Might Make a TV Actor Its President
Ukraine holds the first round of this year’s presidential election on March 31, and the top conte …read more Source: Council on Foreign...
