Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine – The American March, Washington, D.C., May 20, 2017
Saturday, May 20, 2017 Over there? BackChannels readers have enjoyed a glimpse of the relationship between Moscow and terrorism. Reflexive Control Process: “Allahu Akbar Terrorism” -> New Nationalism –> Neo-Feudalism The same have witnessed the destruction of Syria by Bashar al-Assad as flanked by Vladimir Putin and Ali Khamenei and how the...
U.S. Unpredictability Is Not Reassuring for NATO
Transatlantic TakeOn May 25, the 28 NATO heads of state and government — and pending member Montenegro — will converge on Brussels for a face-to-face meeting on the Alliance’s priorities and challenges today. It will be U.S. President Trump’s first meeting with all NATO members. The meeting presents a clear opportunity for the...
Kleptocracy Daily: May 22, 2017
News Russian officials bragged in conversations during the presidential campaign that they had cultivated a strong relationship with former Trump adviser Michael Flynn and believed they could use him to influence Trump and his team. The Trump administration, in a significant escalation of its clash with the government’s top ethics watchdog,...
How Kosovo Poisoned America’s Relationship with Russia
Ted Galen Carpenter Washington, DC perpetuated and deepened its Balkan blunder a few years after the Bosnia intervention when it intervened in Kosovo. Civil strife in Serbia’s restless, predominantly Albanian province, simmered and then flared in the mid-and late-1990s. This time, Washington didn’t even make a gesture of deferring to...
Could North Korea Be the Next Ukraine?
North Korea and Ukraine each shares a border with a powerful American rival, but the combination of Pyongyang’s nationalism with the country’s nuclear deterrent would make any effort at Chinese territorial expansion very risky regardless of Washington’s reaction, writes Paul Saunders. …read more Source: The Tokyo...
The pro-Kremlin narrative about migrants
Pro-Kremlin outlets share an often-repeated narrative about migrants in the EU Member States. It combines elements of misinformation with a factual background of refugees arriving in Europe in large numbers …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Fake ‘Ukrainian fascist’ jailed for pro-Russian separatist rally
A court in the Kherson oblast has passed sentence on Edward Kovalenko, a Ukrainian whose involvement in fake far-right movements and separatist scandals dates back to at least 2004 …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Moscow’s Nuclear Blackmail – Five Links
Today: https://research.uaposition.com/latest-news/russia-deploys-nuclear-warheads-crimea/ – 5/21/2017 Within the past year: June 2016: http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russia-threatens-deploy-nuclear-weapons-crimea-13013 April 29, 2017: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/russia-weighs-heavily-in-americas-nuclear-plans/article/2621340 May...
Українці зі Світового Банку та МВФ влаштували вишиванковий флешмоб по всьому світу
Українці зі Світового Банку та МВФ влаштували вишиванковий флешмоб по всьому світу До Дня Вишиванки українці, що працюють у Світовому Банку, Міжнародному Валютному Фонді та Міжнародній Фінансовій Корпорації організували святковий флешмоб у різних країнах світу, де є офіc організацій та працюють українці. Про це VIDIA розповів Віталій Дубіль,...
New Language Hopes to Become Slavic Lingua Franca
The brainchild of a Czech linguist and a Croatian anthropologist, the language aims to build bridges between Slavic people. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
