Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Top 10 Reasons Not to Love NATO
The New York Times loves NATO, but should you? Judging by comments in social media and the real world, millions of people in the United States have gone from having little or no opinion on NATO, or from opposing NATO as the world’s biggest military force responsible for disastrous wars in places like Afghanistan (for Democrats) or Libya...
The New York Times Smears the President
The Donald has been on a red hot twitter rampage, and he’s completely justified. Actually, we didn’t think the Russian Collusion Hoax could get any stupider until we saw the New York Times’ Friday evening bushwhack. The trio of authors, apparently self-tortured victims of the Trump Derangement Syndrome, actually had the gall to...
Back to the USSR: How to Read Western News
The heroes of Dickens’ Pickwick Papers visit the fictional borough of Eatanswill to observe an election between the candidates of the Blue Party and the Buff Party. The town is passionately divided, on all possible issues, between the two parties. Each party has its own newspaper: the Eatanswill Gazette is Blue and entirely devoted to...
Trump’s Hail Mary Becomes Bolton’s Nightmare
National Security Advisor John Bolton is making the rounds in the Middle East to try and salvage what’s left of the long-standing plan to balkanize Syria and overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in the wake of President Trump’s announced troop withdrawal. What began as a political Hail Mary for Trump has morphed into a foreign policy...
Russia After the Ukraine Crisis: European, Asian, or Eurasian?
Winter in Siberia, photo via PixabayBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,061, January 11, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: As competition grows more intense between the US and China, Moscow must assess which side will do more to help it solve its problems across the former Soviet space. Moscow’s choice will affect Russia’s identification as...
On Ukraine and Russia
By Alina Polyakova, Scott R. Anderson …read more Source:...
Zelenskiy: a comedian joins the race for the presidency of Ukraine
30 December 2018 saw the official launch of the campaign for Ukraine’s presidential elections scheduled for 31 March. Candidates can submit their documents to the Central Electoral Commission by 4 February. So far, several candidates have publicly announced their intention to run for the highest office in the land, including Volodymyr...
Autonomie der Orthodoxen Kirche der Ukraine als Politikum
…read more Source: German Institute for International and Security...
Warsaw’s Risky Flirtation With Washington
Michal Baranowski stands in front of a white-grey world map in his conference room and explains what the state of mind is in Poland: Fear. The head of the Warsaw office of the U.S. foundation German Marshall Fund (GMF) is an outstanding expert in Polish-American relations and has a broad network. “The economy, increasingly the energy...
Happy Christmas, Ukraine
On 7 January, Ukrainians celebrated a double-holiday: Orthodox Christmas and the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox church …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
