Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Bear at the Door: Poland Ponders its Strategic Environment
Russian behavior has long influenced how safe Poles feel. Centuries of fending off or being subjugated by Russia (or, its 20th-century incarnation, the Soviet Union) have left them with an abiding mistrust of their big and often unfriendly eastern neighbor. Needless to say, Russia’s recent aggressiveness in Eastern Europe has put many Poles...
Putin’s Science Fiction
Security On 1 March 2018, President Putin delivered a message to the Russian parliament. Other representatives of Russia’s ruling class were also sitting in the room, as is traditionally the case. Almost a half of the two-hour speech was devoted not to political and socio-economic proposals but, instead, exclusively to a story of...
Women on the Front Line in eastern Ukraine
Article | The armed conflict in eastern Ukraine has been raging for four years now. It has brought suffering and disrupted the lives of hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the front line. Still, life in the front line communities goes on. …read more Source: International Committee of the Red...
NRA’s Ties to Russian Banker Probed
Alexander Torshin boasted of his NRA membership, and sought meetings with Trump. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
New Fissures Appear in Ukrainian Christian Faiths
Worsening relations with Russia over the Donbas conflict are driving a wedge between the two main Orthodox branches. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Polish Extremists Suspected in Ukraine Arson
Ukrainian officials hint at Russian involvement in two attempts to burn down a building used by the Hungarian minority. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia and Ukraine Locked in Gas-Related Court Battle
A four-year dispute over gas deliveries between Russian and Ukrainian energy giants ended in a court ruling on Wednesday, only to spark new disagreements. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
U.S. Confirms Antitank Missile Sale to Ukraine
Head of Pentagon’s DARPA tech incubator says the agency is working with local partners. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukrainian police violently dispersed protesters without any court order
It is becoming increasingly clear that there was no legal justification for the dispersal of a tent camp of protesters from outside the Verkhovna Rada on 3 March and the detaining of over 100 activists. The Head of the Human Rights Ombudsperson’s Secretariat also reports that the nature of the bodily injuries sustained during the dispersal...
Ukraine carries out Russian-style raid of Islamic Cultural Centre
Said Ismagilov, Mufti of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Ukraine, has accused Ukraine’s enforcement bodies of multiple infringements during an early-morning search of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Kyiv. Ukraine is using methods, he says, which are disturbingly similar to those applied in Russian-occupied Crimea …read more...
