Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Thanksgiving 2017 – Why There Is No Peace On Earth
After the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 and the death of the Soviet Union was confirmed two years later when Boris Yeltsin courageously stood down the red army tanks in front of Moscow’s White House, a dark era in human history came to an end. The world had descended into what had been a 77-year global war, incepting with the...
German Intelligence Failures Ahead of Stalingrad
(click to enlarge) But the Germans made a critical error even before the invasion began. Barbarossa was a three-pronged attack. One prong was into the Baltic states and then toward Leningrad (modern-day St. Petersburg), the second was toward Moscow, and the third was into the south, designed to capture Ukraine and then the Caucasus. Formulating...
Debacle in the Donbas
The Donbas is seeing a coup within a coup, as two of the leading separatists turn on each other. …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
Ukrainian victim of Russia’s first ‘absolutely Stalinist trial” spends 4th birthday in brutal isolation
Oleksandr (Sasha) Kolchenko is spending a fourth birthday in Russian captivity, one of the first victims of Russia’s mounting appetite for fake ‘terrorism’ show trials, aimed at crushing dissent, and trying to provide justification for Russia’s invasion and occupation of Crimea. He and Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov are...
Russia causes the death of revered veteran of the Crimean Tatar National Movement, then tries to hide it
83-year-old Vedzhie Kashka, victim of the 1944 Deportation and veteran of the non-violent struggle of the Crimean Tatar people for their rights, died on November 23 after Russian FSB officers burst into a restaurant where she had been sitting and tried to detain her. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Eastern Partnership: 2017 Brussels summit – Taking stock and new objectives
Written by Philippe Perchoc, © areporter / Fotolia On 24 November 2017, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine meet with the European Union (EU) in Brussels for the fifth Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit. A lot has been achieved since the Riga summit in 2015: association agreements (AA) and deep and comprehensive free trade...
EU Should Seek Further Reforms Before Offering Membership to Eastern Neighbours
23 November 2017 Cristina Gherasimov Twitter Academy Robert Bosch Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme (2017) The EU should reiterate firm support for current commitments and for European integration via genuine democratic transformations before promising a path to membership. Agmashenebeli Avenue in Tbilisi is turned into ‘European...
2017 New Europe 100 list is Announced
Today, 23 November 2017, Res Publica, Google, and Visegrad Insight in cooperation with Financial Times are releasing the 2017 edition of New Europe 100, which presents the list of unique challenges from Central and Eastern Europe. The New Europe 100 list consists of the outstanding people who are changing and improving the world with their...
Eastern Partnership summit and Ukraine’s ‘return to Europe’ at times of uncertainty
Ukraine’s expectations for the upcoming Eastern Partnership Summit. …read more Source: European Policy...
Paralysis of anti-corruption institutions in Ukraine
The General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine initiated an investigation into the head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
