Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
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...
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...
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...
Russia and Iran growing cooperation
In this commentary for PONARS Eurasia, IISS Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia Samuel Charap analyses the changes in Ukrainian society since the 2014 crisis. …read more Source: International Institute for Strategic...
Special Treatment
The use of punitive psychiatry against political opponents appears to be on the upswing in post-Soviet states. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
