Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Hamilton 68: A New Tool to Track Russian Disinformation on Twitter
Since Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election, many have warned that Putin will be back in 2018 and 2020. But the reality is that Russian influence operations never left. As former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper recently stated, the Kremlin is already beginning to “prep the battlefield” for the 2018 elections. But...
Russian Strategic Logic
Russian soldiers after the seizure of Perevalne military base, Crimea, 9 March 2014, Wikipedia CCBESA Center Perspectives No. 549, August 2, 2017 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Western observers are often astonished by Russian military decision-making, which defies the principle of waiting for full knowledge of the enemy before acting. The Russian approach...
Final plea to not appoint discredited judges to Ukraine’s Supreme Court
Civic organizations are warning that there can be no hope of real reform of the Supreme Court if the results announced by the High Qualification Commission of Judges for Ukraine’s first ever competition for 120 Supreme Court judges are accepted …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Donbas militants ‘sentence’ blogger to 14 years for “spreading negative information”
A so-called military court in the self-proclaimed ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ [LPR] has sentenced two Ukrainians to huge sentences for what it calls ‘state treason’. Since the alleged ‘treason’ involved spreading ‘negative information’ on the Internet, it seems likely that one of the two people is Edward Nedelyaev, a...
Relive the Highlights from the 2017 Aspen Security Forum
With the arrival of the Trump administration, we have turned a new page in our ongoing effort to protect the nation against threats to its security. The 2017 Aspen Security Forum gathered present and former top-level government officials from national security agencies as well as a host of industry leaders, experts, journalists, and concerned...
Resolving the Imbroglio by Making Ukraine a Buffer State
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – A few recent words from Jack Matlock who was U.S. ambassador to Moscow under presidents Reagan and Bush senior: “The Ukraine crisis is a product, in large part, of the policy of indefinite expansion of NATO to the east. If there had been no possibility of Ukraine ever becoming part of...
Watch List: Aug. 1, 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...
Russia is Not a Threat Akin to the Soviet Union, but Still a Formidable Power
Although not the superpower of Soviet times, Russia still must be dealt with as a great power. August 1, 2017 By Keith Weber It has become commonplace to compare modern Russia with the Soviet Union, invoking the old Cold War to describe the latest hostistilities beween Russia and the West. While the ideological battle between communism and...
Washington’s Addictive Foreign-Policy Drug
Ted Galen Carpenter Congress has overwhelmingly passed legislation imposing new economic sanctions on North Korea, Russia and Iran. There was some speculation that President Trump might veto the measure, both because of concerns that it would prevent an improvement in America’s troubled relations with Moscow and because of stringent...
Why Russia needs troops from the Caucasus in Syria – and how they bolster Moscow’s ‘eastern’ image
During the early years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union made a great push to reach out to the developing world, and particularly to the Middle East and Asia. It established particularly close ties with Nasser’s Egypt and later with Syria, but didn’t do so well with others; the Chinese leadership in particular doubted whether the USSR...
