Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russia in the Black Sea: Return to Dominance?
Invitation Only Research Event 9 October 2019 – 10:00am to 11:30amAdd to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House | 10 St James’s Square | London | SW1Y 4LE …read more Source:: Chatham...
How Can the United States Support Democracies in the Former USSR?
The West has only modest capacity to influence circumstances in most post-Soviet countries. In Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Moldova, however, the West has the potential to make a real difference by supporting civil society and improved governance. …read more Source::...
The Khazars: Judaism, Trade, and Strategic Vision on the Eurasian Steppes
Khazar fortress at Sarkel (Belaya Vyezha, Russia). Aerial photo from excavations conducted by M. I. Artamanov in the 1930s. Public domain photo via WikipediaBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,288, September 15, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Harnessing the Eurasian lands has always been difficult. The Khazars, an obscure people from the steppes that...
“Ideological competition is actually good for us.” Interview with Timothy Garton Ash
RT: You were on a panel at Brussels Forum where you discussed 1989 and I’m going to ask you to start there. You said 1989 was the best year in European history. Tell us why. Garton Ash: That’s quite a claim, isn’t it! I put it out there as a challenge and I haven’t yet had anyone come back and say: “What about 1783?” So...
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...