Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine Wants to Build Spaceport in Australia
State space agency hopes potential collaboration results in launch station that could become Asia’s main spaceport and help replace lost business after Crimea annexation. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Vladimir Putin Secures Fourth Presidential Term
The incumbent wins landslide victory with record amount of votes after his most serious opponent is banned from running in the election. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The EU and Ukraine: a Partnership Tested by Reforms
Invitation Only Research Event 26 March 2018 – 12:00 to 13:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London Peter Wagner, Head of the EU’s …read more Source: Chatham...
Dynamism Hallmark of China-Russia Relations
China and Russia have been cooperating closely over the past three decades. But since the Ukraine crisis, the process has become more dynamic. Moscow and Beijing are now coordinating their policies on a wider range of issues. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
No Alternatives
Russians are starved of different viewpoints by their media’s united anti-Western front. From The Conversation. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik: Ukraine should continue space program
Written by: Sergiy Vakarin, UkraineIS Chairman Photos: Vitaly Mamchyn and Bresnik Family Archive NASA astronaut, International Space Station Commander Randy Bresnik visited Ukraine soon after his space mission ended. I had a chance to chat with him at the KPI Kyiv Polytechnic University. Several hundreds of Ukrainians attended his lectures all...
Crimean Tatars boycott illegal Russian elections despite likely persecution in retaliation
Photographs from Crimean polling stations on 18 March do not tally with official reports, and certainly the vast majority of Crimean Tatars seem to have boycotted the event. This is despite four years bitter experience of the repressive measures they are likely to face for their courageous resistance. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Shameful Putin ‘Election’ Farce Legitimized by the OSCE
What will the OSCE say at their 19 March press conference in Moscow after agreeing to observe a ‘presidential election’ in which the main opposition candidate had been prevented from running, and which was being illegally held in occupied Crimea?. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Vladimir Putin: how to understand the Russian president’s view of the world
Vladimir Putin has won re-election by an even greater margin than expected. But he begins his fourth term as president facing antagonism from numerous world leaders over a nerve agent attack in the UK that has hospitalised a former Russian spy and his daughter. The British prime minister, Theresa May, has made it clear that she thinks Russia is...
Time for the US to End Democracy Promotion Flim-Flams
Democracy promotion has long been one of the U.S. government’s favorite foreign charades. The Trump administration’s proposal to slash funding for democratic evangelism is being denounced as if it were the dawn of a new Dark Age. But this is a welcome step to draining a noxious swath of the Washington swamp.Nineteenth century humorist...
