Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Why The Empire Never Sleeps: The Indispensable Nation Folly
Like the case of Rome before it, the Empire is bankrupting America. The true fiscal cost is upwards of $1.0 trillion per year (counting $200 billion for veterans and debt service for wars), but there is no way to pay for it. That’s because the 78-million strong Baby Boom is in the driver’s seat of American politics. It plainly will...
U.S.-Ukraine Energy Cooperation: A Discussion on Strengthening Ukrainian Energy Security
Section 257 of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act stipulated the development of a plan to support strengthening Ukrainian energy security. While the sanctions act developed a framework for short-term U.S.-Ukraine collaboration, there are still questions about how collaboration between both the U.S. and Ukrainian...
Time for a trailblazing approach to Britain’s cultural heritage
Last year, I found myself at two very different cultural events, just a few weeks apart. One was held in the awe-inspiring surroundings of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. There, I found myself surrounded by the great and the good of the British cultural establishment, attending the launch of a new government report, “Culture Is...
Only Crimean Tatars targeted in Russia’s most lawless trial “because the victor calls the shots”
The ‘trial’ has ended in Russian-occupied Crimea of five Crimean Tatars accused of ‘involvement’ in a pre-annexation demonstration over which Russia has no jurisdiction. Verdicts are due on June 4, but are unlikely to bring many surprises, given that this lawless case was not terminated at the first court hearing despite being...
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...
