Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Media Mis/Trust and Other Paradoxes
Although the results of recent surveys in Central and Eastern Europe seem hard to piece together, they are telltales of the regional mood. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
German Elections Reveal Political Rise of Russian Minority
Although most have been in the country for two decades or longer, many Russians don’t follow German media and look to Moscow for support. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia to Pay Damages to Beslan Survivors – Reluctantly
2004 tragedy opened fault lines between the government and critics of its shoot-to-kill approach to terror incidents. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kleptocracy Weekly: September 22, 2017
Anonymous companies: “The federal government should do more to push back against the states that are helping transform the United States into a global offshore haven—and they should start to publicize the criminals, arms dealers, and kleptocrats that are taking advantage…” Casey Michel advocates an end to beneficial ownership secrecy. (Foreign...
Kleptocracy Daily: September 22, 2017
China: A major new research paper by Anne-Marie Brady delves into Beijing’s aggressive political influence operations worldwide, using New Zealand as a particularly troubling case study. (Summary here). (Wilson Center, NZ Herald) Bannon in Beijing: Steve Bannon secretly met with Wang Qishan, China’s anti-graft chief and the...
More than javelins, Ukraine needs change
I remember Ukraine as a friendlier place. But my country’s recent uptick of expelling foreigners it considers inconvenient belies a less hospitable, darker trend. The government that grew out of Ukraine’s 2014 “Revolution of Peoples’ Dignity” now has some Ukrainians reminiscing about the more tolerant, less corrupt government it...
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North Korea [What Think Tanks are thinking]
Written by Marcin Grajewski, © Onur / Fotolia North Korea has stepped up its nuclear plans with the underground detonation of a hydrogen bomb and tests of its first suspected Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), moves perceived as a major threat to global security. Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on 19 September, U.S....
Lopaskino is a conditionally Ukrainian settlement along the delimitation line
During the pre-conflict period the village of Lopaskino belonged to Slavyanoserbsky district and was a part of Slavyanoserbsky settlement council. On October 7, 2014 the Verkhovna Rada has changed the administrative-territorial device of the Luhansk region by the resolution No. 1692-VII, having established new borders of Novoaydarsky and...
The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy: Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy, Dimitris Bouris and Tobias Schumacher (eds.) (College of Europe, Natolin)
Dimitris Bouris and Tobias Schumacher (eds.), The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy. Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 306p, 2017 This book analyses the revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) which entered into force in May 2011, thereby replacing its predecessor of 2003/2004. The edited volume...
Russia sentences Ukrainian journalist Mykola Semena for expressing the UN’s stand on Crimea
A court in Russian-occupied Crimea has passed a two and a half year suspended sentence on Ukrainian journalist Mykola Semena for expressing his opposition to Russia’s occupation of Crimea. It was thus found that an opinion piece written by Semena contained ‘public calls to action aimed at violating Russia’s territorial...
