Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Watch List: Aug. 9, 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 Unsung Summit of Putin and Trump
This week marks the 72nd anniversary of the criminal US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And as is the case each year, there is much discussion and lamenting over this atrocity, as there well should be. For the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary for victory; Japan had already sued for peace. It was the opening salvo, a brutal...
Putin and children
Politics Once again, the Russian state is going through a period of concern related to youth policy. President Vladimir Putin himself has already chaired not one but two “phone-in shows” this year. They have already become a tradition: for a couple of hours, once a year, Putin answers people’s questions and solves their local problems, live...
Путин и дети
Politics Российское государство (не в первый раз) переживает период озабоченности молодежной политикой. Сам президент Владимир Путин провел в этом году не одну, а две “прямых линии». Это уже традиция – раз в год в эфире федеральных телеканалов Путин в течение нескольких часов отвечает на вопросы жителей страны и решает их локальные проблемы...
Moral Combat in International Politics – Part 1
This paper was written for the ‘V4 for Europe — Developing positive scenarios for Europe’s future’ workshop, organised by the Hungarian Europe Society in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Budapest on 16 May 2017. “The positions of the opposing forces were clearly outlined in 2016. Nations rose up against the globalists,...
Moral Combat in International Politics – Part 2
This paper was written for the ‘V4 for Europe — Developing positive scenarios for Europe’s future’ workshop, organised by the Hungarian Europe Society in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Budapest on 16 May 2017. How is populist foreign policy made? Populists approach national unity through rallying their voters against...
Five Ways We Have Changed the World’s Perception of Ukraine
Ukraine has continued to face many challenges but something has changed in the last year. The country started scoring targeted and powerful public relations goals abroad. At Ukraine Crisis Media Center, where I am a co-founder, we have actively sought to change how Ukraine is perceived …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
76-year-old Crimean Tatar charged with ‘resisting the police’ for defence of political prisoner Akhtem Chiygoz
76-year-old Server Karametov was detained on Tuesday while standing peacefully outside the High Court in Simferopol where the ‘trial’ is taking place of Crimean Tatar leader and recognized political prisoner Akhtem Chiygoz …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian Hackers Can’t Beat German Democracy
Less than two months remain before Germans go to the polls in a general election. On the surface, this has been as regular an election season as can be: Parties have assembled their programs and teams, candidates have been out campaigning, and politics have mostly revolved around the classic issues: taxes, social benefits, public investment. Yet...
Tillerson Says Russia Willing to Discuss Ukraine
August 8, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
