Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
An End in Sight for Ukraine … Maybe
By Jacob L. Shapiro The conflict in Ukraine has developed an interminable quality. We are now over three years into the war in Donbass, and every day brings new updates on cease-fire violations or steps forward and backward on implementing the Minsk accord. This can make it hard to determine when conditions have actually changed. There have been...
Energy analyst: Russian proposals to use Ukrainian pipelines a ‘joke’
If Russia’s gas supply to Europe is to remain reliable, the Ukrainian system must run parallel to Nord Stream 2, Oleksandr Sukhodolia told EURACTIV Slovakia. …read more Source:...
Moving message of solidarity from Kremlin hostage Roman Sushchenko on sentence of Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov
There has been widespread condemnation of Russia’s two-year prison sentence on Crimean Tatar leader lmi Umerov “for voicing dissent against the illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula”. The most poignant was from Roman Sushchenko, the Ukrainian journalist seized by the Russian FSB almost exactly a year ago …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s more accessible and independent Constitutional Court
A critical overview of changes to Ukraine’s Constitutional Court …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Should the United States Arm Ukraine?
While analysts agree that diplomacy is the ideal route to ending the conflict in eastern Ukraine, they disagree on whether the United States sending defensive weapons to Ukraine will achieve that end. On September 22, the Atlantic Council, in collaboration with the Charles Koch Institute, hosted a debate between experts: Should the United States...
Watch List Findings: Sept. 23, 2017
What follows are the preliminary findings for issues identified in the daily Watch Lists this week. We are only sending findings that we regard as significant or potentially significant to keep this list manageable. We have findings for all the Watch List items. Should you be interested in findings not listed here, please contact us and we will...
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...
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...
