Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The ‘Integrity Initiative’ – A Military Intelligence Operation, Disguised As Charity, To Create The ‘Russian Threat’
The British government financed Integrity Initiative is tasked with spreading anti-Russian propaganda and thereby with influencing the public, military and governments of a number of countries. What follows is an contextual analysis of the third batch of the Initiative’s internal papers which were dumped by an anonymous Friday. Christopher...
‘New World Order’ Wine Pompoured into a Pro-‘Sovereignty’ Rhetorical Bottle
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began his December 4 speech in Brussels at the German Marshall Fund with “a well-deserved tribute to America’s 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush,” whom he praised as “an unyielding champion of freedom around the world.” It was fitting that he did so. The heart and soul of Pompeo’s remarks...
British Spies Infiltrated Bernie Sanders’ Campaign?
The Integrity Initiative, a British pseudo-NGO tasked with running anti-Russian propaganda operation, was recently exposed. Further digging into it revealed a much wider operation. It seems to involve a mole British spies inserted into the Bernie Sanders campaign.Three weeks ago internal budget proposals and member lists of the Integrity...
Opposition to Nord Stream 2 Gathers Steam on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Natural gas pipeline would connect Russia to Europe Opposition to Nord Stream 2—a pipeline that will transport natural gas from Russia to Germany while bypassing Ukraine—is building on both sides of the Atlantic. On December 11, the US House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution expressing opposition to Nord Stream 2. The nonbinding...
Investment claim against Ukraine follows an antimonopoly fine imposed on Gazprom
On 25 October 2018, Gazprom filed an EUR 6.4 billion investment treaty claim against Ukraine in accordance with UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, under the Russia – Ukraine Bilateral Investment Treaty of 1998 (BIT). The claim concerns a fine imposed by a state authority. Although analysing the merits of the claim at this stage is premature, the […]...
The Negative Consequences of Putin’s Strategy
It has become an accepted line of thought that Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing chess on the international stage while the majority of Western leaders play checkers. His high-profile appearances among other world leaders at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires and the centenary of the end of World War I in Paris were noted by some as more...
Britain and the Future of European Security
Invitation Only Research Event 13 December 2018 – 12:00pm to 1:15pmAdd to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House | 10 St James’s Square | London | SW1Y 4LE …read more Source: Chatham...
NATO‘s Northeast Quartet: Prospects and Opportunities for Baltic-Polish Defence Cooperation
For quite some time, territorial defence seemed to be an obsolete need, a leftover from the Cold War era. However, Russia’s overt and covert uses of military force—against Georgia in 2008 and against Ukraine since 2014—have profoundly altered the security environment and threat perceptions in the region and, indeed, across the entire...
Prime Minister delays Brexit vote to seek further “reassurances” from the EU on the backstop
Prime Minister delays Brexit vote to seek further “reassurances” from the EU on the backstopPrime Minister Theresa May has delayed Parliament’s vote on the Brexit withdrawal deal in order to seek “reassurances” from the EU on the issue of the Irish backstop. The vote had been due to take place today. Speaking in the House of Commons...
The Geopolitics of Ukraine’s Newly Independent Church
St Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine, photo by Petar Milošević via WikipediaBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,033, December 11, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) is experiencing troubles in Ukraine. Areas once considered to be the uncontested territory of the Russian Patriarchate are now becoming...