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...
‘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...
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...
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...
ABA’s 11th annual conference on the resolution of CIS-related business disputes in Moscow this September
Date: September 18, 2019 Venue: Radisson Collection Hotel (Ukraine), Kutuzovsky Prospect, 2/1, bld. 1, Moscow, Russia Russian Arbitration Association is pleased to invite you to the Annual ABA Conference in Moscow when East meets West and the hardest topics get discussed. In the time of high political tensions, the conference has particular...
The Gathering Storm: As the Baltic States Prepare to Disconnect from the Russian Power Grid, the Kremlin is Ready to ‘Help’
With the Baltic states on-track to become independent from centralised Russian control over their power networks, the Kremlin has demonstrated an alarming potential to disconnect them from its power grid before they are ready to join the continental European network.Download the article On 22 May 2019, Russia disconnected all power lines linking...
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...
