Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Gathering Storm: As the Baltic States Prepare to Disconnect from the Russian Power Grid, the Kremlin is Ready to ‘Help’
With the Baltic states on-track to become independent from centralised Russian control over their power networks, the Kremlin has demonstrated an alarming potential to disconnect them from its power grid before they are ready to join the continental European network.Download the article On 22 May 2019, Russia disconnected all power lines linking...
Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – July 2019
Welcome to the fourth edition of the Trans-Atlantic Scorecard, a quarterly evaluation of U.S.-European relations produced by Brookings’s Center on the United States and Europe (CUSE), as part of the Brookings – Robert Bosch Foundation Transatlantic Initiative. To produce the Scorecard, we poll Brookings scholars and other experts on the...
Taking Stock and Looking Ahead: The European Union’s Approach to Conflict Management in the Eastern Partnership
The EU recently marked the 10th anniversary of its Eastern Partnership, a cooperation framework directed at Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, countries critical to European security but not facing the immediate and sometimes not even distant prospect of EU membership.Since the inception of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) a...
Five years after the Revolution of Dignity: Ukraine’s progress and Russia’s malign activities
By Alina PolyakovaDear Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member Shaheen, Distinguished Members of the Subcommittee: It is an honor and privilege to address you on Ukraine’s progress and Russian malign activities five years after Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity and Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and invasion of the Donbas. Thank...
Book Review: Ukraine and the Art of Strategy by Lawrence Freedman
The crisis in Ukraine has proved a watershed moment for Russia’s relations with the West. In Ukraine and the Art of Strategy, Lawrence Freedman presents a brief history of the conflict and analyzes it in the context of strategic theory. …read more Source:...
Italy and Russia: New Alignment or More of the Same?
In: IAI CommentariesItaly and Russia: New Alignment or More of the Same?Issue: 19|28Italy and Russia: New Alignment or More of the Same? Nona Mikhelidze* The 2018 parliamentary elections in Italy marked a spectacular victory for populist parties – the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (MoVimento 5 Stelle – M5S) and the right-wing anti-migrant...
The Zelensky enigma: A different kind of populist
The second round of Ukraine’s election for president takes place on 21 April; the comedian and political novice Volodymyr Zelensky is in the lead …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
The Ukrainian Presidential Election: Outcomes and Expectations
In March 2019, Ukraine began a super-election period, which will include presidential, parliamentary, and local elections between now and 2020. Three days after Ukraine’s presidential election, a panel of leading Ukrainian and international political analysts will discuss the electoral process, the outcome of the vote, and its impact for...
Kirche und Staat in Russland
Unter Präsident Wladimir Putin erstarkte ein Konservatismus, mit dem sich Russland von einem angeblich traditionsfeindlichen Westen abgrenzt. Vor allem in Putins dritter Amtszeit (2012–2018) wurde die Zusammenarbeit des Kreml mit der Russischen Orthodoxen Kirche ausgebaut. Gemeinsam widmete man sich etwa der patriotischen Präsentation der...
Belarus Could Be Russia’s Next Big Geopolitical Target
Vladimir Putin with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko (R) and Speaker of the Council of the Republic of Belarus Mikhail Myasnikovich, via Office of Russian PresidentBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,141, April 14, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Russia’s geopolitical projection has shifted over the past two decades. The country has tried...
