Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The US overtakes Hong Kong to rank first among world’s most competitive economies
The US has broken back into the lead. shutterstock.comThe US has leapfrogged Singapore and Hong Kong to top IMD’s latest World Competitiveness Rankings. The top five most competitive economies in the world remain the same since 2016, but their order has changed. With the US at the top, Hong Kong has dropped one spot to second and Singapore...
The Paradoxes of Polish-Ukrainian Relations
BY WOJCIECH KONONCZUK The narrative that Polish-Ukrainian relations are in crisis is too simplistic. An obvious problem lies in the two countries’ different perceptions of the tragic past and the politicization of history, but less recognized is that they are engaging in an unprecedented level of cooperation in other spheres. Poland’s...
Putin: Negative Reflection in Western Eyes
Putin: leader of nationalist Russia, master of “realpolitik” — leverage, punishment, reward — the Boss of bosses, capricious and absolute. Whatever the game, why play one side or the other when you can own the whole board? Medieval Political Absolutism v Modern Democratic Societies KGB Colonel, President, Emperor Putin has taken Russia back the...
Mike Pompeo Hurls ‘Assassination’ Charges at Iran, but Nobody Knows What the Hell he’s Talking About
America’s chief foreign negotiator has a message for Iran: stop assassinating people.The problem is, nobody from security experts to Iranian dissidents has any idea what the hell he means.The Guardian picks up the story: Mike Pompeo’s claim that the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is carrying out ‘assassination operations in...
Social care homes in Ukraine
Talking to a person who entered the social care home labyrinth in Ukraine because of a mishap in his or her life, who understands full well that there is no exit except after death, leaves a permanent mark in your memory (Opening words to a conference on May 18, 2018) …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimea: Russia Intensifies Actions Targeting Crimean Tatars
Press Releases Crimea: Russia Intensifies Actions Targeting Crimean TatarsMay 22, 2018Following Russian authorities’ arrest of a prominent Crimean Tatar human rights figure, Server Mustafayev, as part of an intensifying crackdown against minority groups in the Crimean peninsula, Freedom House issued a statement. …read more Source:...
Russia turns to abduction & torture to try to discredit the Crimean Tatar Mejlis
Oleksandr Steshenko, the young Ukrainian who disappeared after being seized by the FSB in occupied Crimea, has been shown on Russian television ‘confessing’ to involvement in an ‘extremist group’ supposedly created by the Head of the Mejlis, or self-governing body, of the Crimean Tatar people. This alleged ‘plot’ has been made...
Getting Out from In-Between
The West and Russia currently find themselves locked in a dangerous competition. Meanwhile, other states in the region, including Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia, remain to varying degrees unstable, unreformed, and rife with conflict. The approaches to regional order seem likely to exacerbate these problems. The panelists will discuss these...
Russia’s Active Measures Architecture: Task and Purpose
Russia’s latest iteration of the Soviet-era tactic of “active measures” has mesmerized Western audiences and become the topic de jour for national security analysts. In my last post, I focused on the Kremlin’s campaign to influence the U.S. elections from 2014 to 2016 through the integration of offensive cyber hacking, overt...
EU sanctions against Russia : What’s next?
Written by Martin Russell, DG EPRS Policy round table – ‘ EU sanctions against Russia : What’s next? ‘ Four years after Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, the issue of sanctions against Moscow is more topical than ever. Relations between Russia and the West have continued to deteriorate to a level not seen since the end of the...
