Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Agreement Over Macedonia’s Name Is a Glimmer of Hope in Europe
Greece and Macedonia have just scored a victory for democracy, stability, and their future economic prosperity in Europe. Today, the latter took a leap forward by signing its accession protocol with NATO, strengthening its security and place in the Euro-Atlantic community. Following Montenegro’s hard-won accession to NATO in 2017, the two...
A ‘last-minute’ transit contract? Russia-Ukraine-EU gas talks
On 21 January another round of trilateral gas talks between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union was held in Brussels. This meeting mainly concerned the new Russian-Ukrainian transit contract; the transit contract currently in force between Gazprom and Naftogaz will expire as of 1 January 2020. During the meeting, European Commission...
Assessing Ukrainian Grassroots Activism Five Years After Euromaidan
Pockets of energetic local Ukrainian activists are improving people’s lives and holding officials accountable, but foreign donors tend to overlook the important work they are doing. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Ukraine’s Joke of an Election
Ukrainians are deeply ambivalent about the 2019 presidential election. A widespread atmosphere of discontent has created an opening for an unlikely dark horse candidate: the comedian Vladimir Zelenskiy. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Iraq Redux: Trump’s Venezuela ‘Regime Change’ Another Pack of Lies
(Note: This is from an RPI exclusive weekly update to our subscribers. Are you subscribed? It’s free and we’ll never sell/loan your name!)It has been just over a week since I last wrote to you, at the time just before Trump’s Venezuela regime change operation hit the mainstream media. I warned that his recognition of an...
Jeremy Hunt says “extra time” may be necessary to deliver Brexit
Jeremy Hunt says “extra time” may be necessary to deliver BrexitThe Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, yesterday raised the possibility that the UK’s departure from the European Union might be delayed by a short period for technical reasons. Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme, Hunt said that if the Government “ended up approving...
Hungary and Poland: What Next for Europe’s “Illiberal Vanguard”?
Transatlantic TakeIn 2019, the European Union could face its most serious trials yet. At the May elections to the European Parliament, a stronger-than-ever showing is expected of political forces that oppose a politically integrated Europe of liberal democracies. Among those illiberals and Euroskeptics, the ruling parties of Hungary and Poland...
Mystery of the Venezuelan Gold: Bank of England is Independent of UK Govt – But Not of Foreign Govts
Pirates don’t have to look like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. They can fly the Union Jack rather than the skull and crossbones. They can be called the Bank of England rather than the Jolly Roger. The ‘Old Lady of Threadneedle Street’ is a port in a stormy world for all kinds of countries in which to moor their...
Terrorism at the Service of ‘Regime Change’. How the West Gets Hit by Its Own Former ‘Useful Freedom Fighters’
The Times of London recently published an apologetic story about some “Chechen battalion” that it likes. This special military unit is fighting on the side of Ukrainian troops near the port of Mariupol on the Azov Sea and is headed by a bearded Chechen with a huge dagger inscribed with the words “Death to Separatists.” The Times describes this...
Trump, Pence, Pompeo Star in the Pirates of the Caribbean
You could scour the bowels of US imperial crimes, from the Mexican-American War to the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam, and you won’t find a more brazen cynical act of gangsterism than that which is now underway against Venezuela. Not since Hitler justified blitzing Poland by claiming it had encroached on the frontier into Nazi Germany has a more...
