Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Watch List: April 23, 2018
The items listed below represent potential emerging issues that our analysts are tracking. These can be long term or short term, but will be updated daily. If an item on our Watch List becomes critical, we will email you a full analysis explaining its significance. Each Saturday, we will follow up our daily Watch List for each week with our...
Russia Plays Cat and Mouse With Telegram
Google, Apple, Amazon could be roped in as Moscow tries to enforce a shutdown of the popular app. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Far Reaches of US Soft Power
Originally produced on April 16, 2018 for Mauldin Economics, LLC By George Friedman and Xander Snyder The Russian ruble, Turkish lira, and Iranian rial are all falling in value. What do they have in common? The United States is in some way involved in their decline. It’s a sign of US power: Even as its military becomes more limited and it...
History: From coal to climate
Energy has played a major role in the history of the European Union. Coal was the first fuel to be exploited; signed in 1951, the Treaty of Paris established the European Coal and Steel Community. With the signing of the Euratom treaty in 1957 to promote nuclear power, energy was once again the backbone of European integration. The economic base...
IFC & Germany to Boost Ukrainian Energy Efficiency
IFC – a member of the World Bank Group, the European Union, and Germany signed agreements on April 23 to support the Ukrainian government’s work in reducing energy waste and greenhouse gas emissions in the residential sector. Under the agreements, the IFC will initially manage up to 53 million euros of funding from the EU (43 million euros)...
Ukrainian neo-Nazi C14 vigilantes drive out Roma families, burn their camp
The far-right C14 organization has carried out an operation, possibly in cooperation with a Kyiv district administration, which resulted in Roma families being forced to flee their camp on Lysa Hora in Kyiv …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
New law in Ukraine would strip citizenship of Crimean victims of Russian occupation
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has proposed amendments to the Law on Citizenship which, if passed, would deprive Crimeans of their Ukrainian citizenship for actions forced on them by Russia as occupying state …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Syria: The Defining Issue of Our Generation
How could we not understand that in the anti-war coalition’s Manichaean world the role of evil was reserved solely for the Western democracies? Over the past decade or so Russia has waged war against Georgia, in Ossetia ad Abkhazia, attacked Ukraine, …read more Source: Gatestone...
Watch List Findings: April 21, 2018
What follows are the preliminary findings for issues identified in the daily Watch Lists this week. We are only sending findings that we regard as significant or potentially significant to keep this list manageable. We have findings for all the Watch List items. Should you be interested in findings not listed here, please contact us and we will...
The EU Twinning Instrument in Ukraine: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
The EU Twinning Instrument in Ukraine: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and ThreatsDmytro PanchukFabienne Bossuyt20 April 2018 …read more Source: Centre for European Policy...
