Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine’s Financial Future: Between Default and Prosperity
In the next five years, Ukraine’s aggregate payments for external liabilities will amount to more than $40 billion. However, the net reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine stand at $5 billion. On the basis of such a ratio, the risk of Ukraine defaulting on its debt is high. Can Ukraine overcome this risk? My response to the above question...
October 26th, 2017
CAMBODIA Cambodia’s King Sihamoni OKs Divisive Laws to Reallocate Opposition Parliamentary Seats RFA Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni has approved a set of controversial amendments to the country’s electoral law, paving the way for the dissolution of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) and the reallocation of...
October 24th, 2017
BELARUS Human Rights Activist Searched, Questioned At Belarus Border Belsat.eu Anisiya Kazlyuk, a volunteer for the human rights center Viasna, was detained by Belarusian border guards on October 22 after participating in the human rights forum in Vilnius. She was kept at the border crossing for several hours. The guards carefully inspected...
Moldova’s Political Challenges and What They Mean for the Eastern Partnership
Invitation Only Research Event 13 Nov 2017 – 09:30 to 15:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo John Beyer, Academic Visitor, University of OxfordNatalia Gavrilita, Member of the National Permanent Bureau, Party for Action and SolidarityCristina Gherasimov, Academy Robert Bosch Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham...
Sweden’s Foreign Policy: Nonaligned, But Not Entirely Neutral
In late 2014, Swedish authorities spotted what many suspected was a Russian submarine lurking off Stockholm. The incident set off alarm bells among Swedes. It reminded them of a similar incident in 1981, when a nuclear-armed Soviet Whiskey-class submarine ran aground a few kilometers outside Sweden’s main naval base.[1] Following...
Russia’s TV: Russia praised as a “global power” and warnings about the revolution
EU vs Disinfo’s weekly summary of the main topics on Russia’s most watched TV news channels …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Prison staff steal all food from Crimean Tatar political prisoner Ruslan Zeytullaev
Ruslan is being held in a notorious prison in Bashkiria and asks people to keep writing to him and to other political prisoners. The letters give them moral support, show them that they’re not forgotten. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Memorial’s Plight in Putin’s Russia
Any discussion of the documentation of the crimes of the Soviet Union will inevitably involve Memorial, a Russian organization dedicated to uncovering and archiving the crimes of the Soviet Union. With a database of over 2.65 million names of the victims of Soviet repression, Memorial is the foremost authority in Russia on the lives and stories...
Putin’s Foreign Policy Impasse … Until the Elections
Russia / World At this year’s Valdai Discussion Club – a key meeting point for Russia’s foreign policy establishment – there were a number of analysts and journalists expecting something significant from President Vladimir Putin’s keynote speech. Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s press secretary, had set the tone,...
Ukrainian Investigators Pore Over Manafort Indictment
U.S. authorities have so far not responded to Kyiv’s request for cooperation, Ukrainian prosecutor complains. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
