Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Trashing Friends Puts America Last
US President Donald J. Trump’s flirtation with a purchase of Greenland got ugly on August 20 when he tweeted that he was putting off his planned state visit to Denmark because Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen wouldn’t discuss the sale. The president triggered this blow up with an ally, a democracy that had sent troops to...
Ukraine: Servant of the People wins an outright majority
On 21 July 2019, Ukraine held an early parliamentary election in which Servant of the People, the party led by the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, came out as the winner. The election is decided by proportional representation and, after 93.3% of the votes had been counted, it turns out that the party has won 43.14% of the vote....
US efforts to counter Russian disinformation and malign influence
By Alina PolyakovaDear Chairwoman Lowey, Ranking Member Rogers, Distinguished Members of the Subcommittee: It is an honor and privilege to address you today on this important issue. Thank you for inviting me to testify. President Vladimir Putin’s Russia seeks to weaken Western governments and transatlantic institutions, discredit democratic...
‘Rasputitsa’: Why Railways and Roads are Russia’s Achilles’ Heel
Ageing railways, poor-quality roads and an inadequate response by the authorities to calls for basic services are the weak underbelly of the Russian infrastructure system.Download the articleThe Russian language has a specific word to describe the conditions of roads during particularly adverse weather. Rasputitsa usually describes heavy snow or...
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...
Behind a Made-for-TV Hong Kong Protest Narrative, Washington is Backing Nativism and Mob Violence
President Donald Trump tweeted on August 13 that he “can’t imagine why” the United States has been blamed for the chaotic protests that have gripped Hong Kong. Trump’s befuddlement might be understandable considering the carefully managed narrative of the US government and its unofficial media apparatus, which have portrayed the...
Turkey, the US and the S-400: A Counter-Narrative
Regardless of how difficult Erdogan’s Turkey may now be, it is a key state in NATO and must be treated as such.There is a theory that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey purchased the Russian-made S-400 system to protect himself from another coup attempt, not as a capability for the Turkish armed forces more generally. This would align...
Ukraine’s broadening horizons
Zelensky’s visit to Turkey signals the growing importance of Turkish-Ukrainian relations …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
