Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Beyond Elections’ Digital Propaganda: Need for Improvement of Public Debates
In AICGS’ new report “Defending Democracy in the Cybersphere,” Nad’a Kovalcikova calls for strengthening public debate in the face of ongoing digital propaganda. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, we have been increasingly facing non-military threats, including digital disinformation campaigns, which have a world-wide...
Transforming Ukrainian Healthcare: Lessons Learnt for Wider System Change
Invitation Only Research Event 4 March 2019 – 3:30pm to 5:00pmAdd to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House | 10 St James’s Square | London | SW1Y 4LE …read more Source: Chatham...
How Chrystia Freeland Organized Donald Trump’s Coup in Venezuela
On Monday, February 5th, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that the 14 countries of the Lima Group — who had actually formed themselves under her direction into this new group on 8 August 2017 in order to overthrow and replace Venezuela’s current President Nicholas Maduro — have now been joined (though she didn’t...
Revisiting the Narrative About Hungary’s Relationship with Russia
Editor’s Note: This article is a response to Stephen Blank’s essay, Putin’s Energy Strategy Is More Ambitious than You Think, which was published by the Atlantic Council’s UkraineAlert blog on January 4, 2019. Since arriving in Washington in the summer of 2017, I have grown somewhat baffled by the narrative about Hungary,...
US-Russia Policy Hits European Energy Supply
Triggered by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and military intervention in Ukraine in early 2014, the governments of the United States (US) and the Russian Federation have since been locked in a geopolitical confrontation, which is largely playing out on the economic stage. In addition to unilateral economic sanctions, the US government is...
Der Donbas-Konflikt
Russland annektierte 2014 in Reaktion auf den Kyiwer »Euromaidan” die Krim und entfachte einen Krieg im Osten der Ukraine. Dort herrscht seitdem ein bewaffneter Konflikt, in dem bis heute Menschen sterben. Seit fünf Jahren versuchen Deutschland und seine westlichen Partner, diesen Konflikt durch Verhandlungen politisch zu lösen – bislang...
Civil Society vs. Corruption: the Case of Zaporizhzhia
Invitation Only Research Event 27 February 2019 – 3:00pm to 5:00pmAdd to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House | 10 St James’s Square | London | SW1Y 4LE …read more Source: Chatham...
Venezuela: The US’s 68th Regime Change Disaster
In his masterpiece, Killing Hope: US Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, who died in December 2018, wrote chapter-length accounts of 55 US regime change operations against countries around the world, from China (1945-1960s) to Haiti (1986-1994). Noam Chomsky’s blurb on the back of the latest edition says...
Ukrainian Society Ahead of the Elections
The continuing war in Ukraine plays an important role in shaping politics and public perceptions in the run-up to this year’s elections. It turns out that identity issues are much more nuanced than the campaign rhetoric suggests. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Everything is possible: Ukraine two months before the presidential election
4 February was the deadline for candidates in the presidential elections scheduled for 31 March to submit their applications to the Central Election Commission. The three favourites are: comedian and television producer Volodymyr Zelenskiy, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and the incumbent president Petro Poroshenko. …read more...
