Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kennan Cable No. 27: Political Rivalry and Garbage Politics in Ukraine
For more than a year, Lviv, the biggest city in Western Ukraine (Population: 800,000), experienced a massive problem with garbage removal. In late May 2016, the city’s only landfill caught fire and four firefighters perished fighting the blaze. As terrible as the fire was, another unpleasant consequence soon arose: the city found itself...
Watch List: Oct. 25, 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...
The Harmful Effects of Antifa
An historic opportunity is being missed. The disastrous 2016 presidential election could and should have been a wakeup call. A corrupt political system that gave voters a choice between two terrible candidates is not democracy. This should have been the signal to face reality. The US political system is totally rotten, contemptuous of the people,...
Sobchak: ‘Against All’ Yet for Navalny?
The celebrity’s presidential campaign picks up speed, although few give her or anyone else a chance to unseat Putin. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Belarus Looks to Improve EU Ties
The former Soviet state sets its sights on expanding trade and economic relations, and developing new sources of foreign capital. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kremlin Gadfly Browder Loses, Regains U.S. Visa
Russia made its latest attempt to have Browder extradited as Canada was enacting its own Magnitsky law. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
US Court Enforces $140+ Million SCC award in Carpatsky Petroleum v Ukrnafta
On 2 October 2017, a Texas federal judge confirmed a $140+ million award, issued by a tribunal under the Rules of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce in favour of Carpatsky Petroleum Corporation (CPC) against the Ukrainian oil company, OJSC Ukrnafta. The Texas ruling marks the important end of an award battle […]...
Watch List: Oct. 24, 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...
Poroshenko honours judge who effectively sentenced renowned Ukrainian dissident to death
Valery Marchenko should have turned 70 this year, after a long life which he would have surely spent serving Ukraine. The renowned journalist, writer and human rights defender died in October 1984, just a few months after being sentenced to 10 years labour camp for so-called ‘anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda’. 33 years after the...
An effective antidote: The four components that make Finland more resilient to hybrid campaigns, Charly Salonius-Pasternak (FIIA, Finland)
Russia’s actions in Ukraine reminded many that states use a mixture of tools to achieve their political objectives. Analytically troublesome but politically useful terms such as hybrid war emerged. Russia’s neighbours were thought to be particularly vulnerable. Yet Finland is structurally relatively resistant to hybrid campaigns due...
