Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Ukraine’s Glass is Half-Full—Giving Up on it Would Be a Terrible Mistake
Transatlantic TakeAs Ukraine goes to the polls on Sunday to elect its president for the second time since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, some in Europe and the United States appear to be ready to give up on the country. This would be a grave mistake at a critical juncture for Ukraine. It has made more headway than pessimists claim in addressing...
With RussiaGate Over Where’s Hillary?
During most of the RussiaGate investigation against Donald Trump, I kept saying that all roads lead to Hillary Clinton. Anyone with three working brain cells knew this, including ‘Miss’ Maddow, whose tears of disappointment are particularly delicious. Robert Mueller’s investigation was designed from the beginning to create something...
The Demography of Ukraine: Ukraine in an Election Year
The last national census of Ukraine was conducted nearly 20 years ago. Recent attempts to conduct a new census since have been postponed. Complicating the issue, events in Ukraine such as Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the war in the East have led to dramatic demographic changes that remain unaccounted for in official statistics....
What Is at Stake in Ukraine’s Election?
Ukraine votes for a president on March 31. Will the pro-Western incumbent, Petro Poroshenko, win? Or will he lose to his old foe, Yulia Tymoshenko, or wild card Volodymyr Zelenskiy? …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
