Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Denuclearization Again? Lessons from Ukraine’s Decision to Disarm
Apr 19, 2018The authors offer three insights from Ukraine’s path to denuclearization that may help deal with today’s proliferation challenges. …read more Source: Belfer Center for Science and International...
Belarus Turns the Screws on Online Media
Journalists push back against proposed amendments that would complicate the work of online reporters and impose restrictions on social media users. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Fears of Radiation Leak From Flooded Ukraine Mine
Kyiv and Washington are calling on Ukrainian separatists not to stop the pumps in a mine where a small nuclear bomb was detonated in 1979. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Georgia Looks to the NATO Brussels Summit
Since 1949, NATO’s membership has increased from 12 to 29 countries. Successive rounds of NATO enlargement have enhanced international security. Euro-Atlantic integration itself has also continuously fostered reform and ensured the stability necessary for prosperity. In theory, NATO’s door is open to all democracies that share...
Economic Recovery in Belarus Accelerates
The speed of economic recovery in Belarus has accelerated in early 2018, but the foundations for solid growth need to be strengthened, says the latest World Bank Economic Update on Belarus. The economic outlook remains challenging due to external financing needs and unaddressed domestic structural bottlenecks. Improved household consumption and...
Assad is in a weaker position than most think
For all the furore about last week’s missile strikes on Syria, they were were strikingly limited in scope. Far from the “big price” boasted about by Donald Trump, the attacks focused very narrowly on three sites linked to the Assad regime’s chemical weapons programme. Targets were chosen both to avoid collateral damage and, more...
Why Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Drive Is Failing
After the victory of the Euromaidan, the demand for combating corruption drastically increased, and new institutions were established to fight high-level corruption. However, there is an ongoing conflict between two of the newly established agencies that greatly diminishes their ability to fight corruption …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Four violent deaths in Crimean prison where Russia is holding political prisoners
As of 19 April, there have been four unnatural deaths in the Simferopol SIZO [remand prison] in Russian-occupied Crimea. This SIZO has become notorious over the past four years for the ever-increasing number of political prisoners held there in appalling conditions, …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
