Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
4 years of Kremlin’s ‘Donbas republics’ and their far-right and left-wing friends
It is surely appropriate that the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics’ [DPR, LPR] date their ‘statehood’ from a fake referendum that even Russia eventually decided not to recognize. This is not the way the so-called ’11 May referendum’ is presented in the militant-controlled media and a new...
Vaad of Ukraine Statement in Response to US Congressmen Letter Concerning Anti-Semitism in Poland and Ukraine
The authors of this statement consider letter to be a piece of anti-Ukrainian defamation which is already in use by the propaganda sector of Russian Federation’s hybrid war on Ukraine. They urge all those interested in getting true information on anti-Semitism in Ukraine to turn to the Vaad of Ukraine for it. …read more Source:...
Another Roma camp attacked and burned down in Ukraine, with police seeing only ‘hooliganism’
A permanent Roma settlement in Rudne, near Lviv, was burned down on 9 May, leaving a number of families homeless. It was the second attack on a Ukrainian Roma camp in less than a month, although this time nobody has publicly admitted to carrying it out.. While Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsperson clearly views this as a hate crime, and...
Russian FSB seize the cousin of Crimean Tatar political prisoner
Nuri Primov and three other recognized Crimean Tatar political prisoners are imprisoned in Russia on the basis of a conversation about their Muslim faith, about Ukraine and Russia. It is likely that similar ‘evidence’ will be provided to jail Primov’s cousin Enver Seytosmanov who has just become the latest victim of Russia’s...
What I learned about Eastern European democracy from Lithuania’s youth
Lithuania’s soldiers are seen during a celebration of Lithuanian Independence Day in Vilnius, Lithuania, on March 11, 2018. The country was marking the 28th anniversary of its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)The term transition economies is what we now use to describe Eastern European countries...
Russia vs. the West: The Beginning of the End
The Kremlin, Moscow, photo by Larry Koester via Flickr CCBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 832, May 13, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Russia-West confrontation has, over the course of the past several years, reached its most tense point since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Differences between the two sides will only grow as neither side wants...
Moscow Region Chokes on Noxious Landfill Fumes
Two officials face charges in one town as protests against bad air from other dumps run on. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Before the Brussels Summit: How is the NATO Alliance Doing, Really?
The revived Russian threat brings NATO back to its roots at this year’s summit in Brussels, which might be the most important in the Alliance’s recent history.Download the article (PDF)On 16 March 2018, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) hosted a private, off the record seminar held under non-attribution rules for the Security...
Ukraine’s Energy Sector Reforms: Assessments and Future Outlook
Invitation Only Research Event 23 May 2018 – 11:00am to 3:00pmAdd to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House | 10 St James’s Square | London | SW1Y 4LE …read more Source: Chatham...
To Kill a Briber
In an interview with Hromadske, policy expert Alina Mungiu-Pippidi assesses the success of Ukraine’s anti-corruption reforms. …read more Source: Transitions Online...