Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Lithuania Proposes Huge Ukraine Recovery Package
EU officials could consider the initiative at Eastern Partnership summit. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Emerging Europe Back on Track to Convergence
Twice a year, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) publishes its macroeconomic forecasts for 22 countries of Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE). The main conclusions of the current wiiw Forecast Reports in a nutshell: GDP forecasts for 2017 have been revised upwards for all Central and East European EU Member...
UN Warns Of Humanitarian Impact Of Increased Hostilities In Eastern Ukraine
The United Nations has raised “extreme” concern that an escalation of fighting near water infrastructures in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk could lead to a deadly chlorine gas disaster. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Wives of Crimean Tatar Political Prisoners detained for many hours as Russia steps up terror tactics
Russia is not content with illegally imprisoning 25 Crimean Muslims on unproven charges of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a peaceful organization that is legal in Ukraine, and leaving 100 children without their fathers. It has now turned to terrorizing and intimidating the wives and family friends of seven political prisoners, with the women...
Russia wages major offensive against Crimean Tatar civic activists in occupied Crimea
One Crimean Tatar activist has been jailed for a legal solitary picket last month, another fined and several subjected to armed searches and interrogation in a new offensive against the civic initiative Crimean Solidarity and all those trying to publicize rights abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
U.S. & NATO Need An Arctic Strategy To Counter Russia (From RealClearDefense)
Ever since Russia seized control of Crimea in late February 2014, the U.S.’ and NATO’s attention has been on the threats posed by Russian forces to the territorial integrity of the Alliance. For years, experts on Russia’s foreign and security [Read More…]The post U.S. & NATO Need An Arctic Strategy To Counter Russia...
The Creation of ‘Russia-Gate’
The two sources that originated the allegations claiming that Russia meddled in the 2016 election — without providing convincing evidence — were both paid for by the Democratic National Committee, and in one instance also by the Clinton campaign: the Steele dossier and the CrowdStrike analysis of the DNC servers. Think about that for a minute. We...
The Future Germany Envisions
By Antonia Colibasanu Since the 2008 financial crisis, Germany has been the de facto leader of the European Union. It has been a voice of calm, urging unity and coordination through the ensuing turbulence, from the financial troubles of Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Spain to the political troubles in the wake of last year’s Brexit vote....
Fresh Sanctions Take Aim at Russia’s Defense Industry
Security At the end of October, United States Department of State produced a list of 33 Russian companies from the country’s defence industry. As of January next year, these companies will be banned from making major transactions with western companies. The list was issued under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions...
Watch List: Nov. 8, 2017
The items listed below represent potential emerging issues that our analysts are tracking. These can be long term or short term, but will be updated daily. If an item on our Watch List becomes critical, we will email you a full analysis explaining its significance. Each Saturday, we will follow up our daily Watch List for each week with our...
