Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
America First — RIP
When the Cold War officially ended in 1991, Washington could have pivoted back to the pre-1914 status quo ante. That is, to a national security policy of America First because there was literally no significant military threat left on the planet.Post-Soviet Russia was an economic basket case that couldn’t even meet its military payroll and...
Soft Neo-imperialism: From Moscow with Love
This time Visegrad/Insight interviewed Ostap Kushnir, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at Lazarski University, author of more than twenty academic articles on the topics of Ukrainian journalism and Eastern European geopolitics on the methodology presented in his recent book Ukraine and Russian Neo-Imperialism: The Divergent Break In the title of...
Partners in Piety: Inside Ukraine’s Evangelical Business Empire
This church will “really change your consciousness and reform your life”. But at what cost? From openDemocracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine ambassador: Tsarist and KGB mentality don’t change with time
Ukraine’s Ambassador to the EU, Mykola Tochytskyi, explains in an interview with EURACTIV why Kyiv is against the planned Nord Stream 2 pipeline. He also talks about Ukraine’s relations with Brussels and its complicated ties with Moscow. …read more Source:...
Russia’s Donbas proxies flood Yunkom Mine despite risk of radioactive catastrophe
Militants from the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DPR] are ignoring local residents, the Ukrainian government and international warnings, and flooding the Yunkom (Yuny Komynar) former coalmine which was used for a nuclear test in 1979. The scale of radioactive contamination of soil and water sources could prove...
Secret Collaborators and Traitors used to persecute for faith in Russian-occupied Crimea
Crimean Tatar Human Rights activist Emir-Usein Kuku and five other Ukrainian Muslims are facing huge sentences on fatally flawed charges with the ‘evidence’ so far provided by a traitor, now working for Russia’s FSB, and an alcoholic ‘secret witness’, whose testimony seems to have been dictated by the prosecution …read...
Bulgaria’s Euroins Buys ERV Ukraine
The Bulgarian Euroins Insurance Group (EIG), one of the largest independent insurance groups in emerging Europe, announced on April 17 that it has bought ERV Ukraine, the travel insurance business of Germany-based ERGO, part of Munich-Re. With purchase agreements signed, the deal is expected to be finalised once regulatory approval has been...
Farewell to Intersection – it’s been a good run
Dear Readers of Intersection, As the editor-in-chief of this project I would like to announce two pieces of news: one bad and one good. Let me start with the bad news. I regret to inform you about my decision to suspend Intersection: Russia/Europe/World. The site will remain accessible for everyone interested in searching our archives, but it...
Space projects and children of the future: UkraineIS has held several events within the framework of the first Future Fest in Ukraine
Photo by Boris Godlevsky On April 12, the Day of Cosmonautics, the first Future Fest in Ukraine was conducted. Discussion on the international space industry featured many inspiring front-edge technologies. UkraineIS chairman Sergey Vakarin presented the most up-to-date space projects (blockchain, cybersecurity and augmented reality) and summed...
Watch List: April 17, 2018
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