Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
World-Known Economist John Taylor In NaUKMA
Image credit: Osadchyi, ShutterstockIn the Newsfeaturing John B. Taylorvia National University of Kyiv-Mohyla AcademyOn May 18 Kyiv Mohyla Academy has a pleasure to meet an honorable guest lecture John Taylor, Professor at Stanford University, author of the well-known “Taylor rule”, which is used by most central banks of developed and...
The Special Counsel Comes to Town: It’s the Moscow Trials, Revisited
Donald Trump ran on a platform of improving relations with Russia: his victory was a mandate for that policy. Yet the real power in this country doesn’t reside within the ballot box, and that reality was brought home when the Justice Department appointed a “special counsel” to investigate “any links and/or coordination with the Russian...
The Nixonization of Donald Trump
(Photo: Mike Maguire / Flickr) The comparisons are multiplying. There was Trump’s appeal to the “silent majority” during the presidential election, his later adoption of the “mad man” theory in his foreign policy, his possible taping of conversations, his arm-twisting of top officials, and his all-around involvement in the scandals...
Kleptocracy Weekly: 5/15-5/19
The latest on KI.org: Global illicit financial flows – and how to stop them. U.S. A look at the FCPA after 40 years. Michael Flynn and other advisers to Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last 7 months of the 2016 presidential race. The FBI warned a...
While the Deep State ‘Death Star’ Seeks to Finish Off Trump, ‘Mr. Massacre’ Returns Pushing for Greater Albania
Amb. William Walker, instigator of US attack on YugoslaviaThe fake news is flying thick and fast in Washington this week. On the heels of Donald Trump’s Oval Office visit with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other American and Russian officials, it finally seemed the fledgling US administration was turning the corner and...
A Weakening State in Azerbaijan
By Antonia Colibasanu Located on the western edge of the Caspian Sea, with Russia to its north and Iran to its south, Azerbaijan is a geopolitically strategic country. It is also a country facing serious economic problems, and if these problems trigger instability and weaken the government’s control, Azerbaijan will become vulnerable to...
Changing the Rules of the Game in Moldova
In Moldova, changes to the electoral system are afoot – but the motivations seem far from democratic. From openDemocracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia detains Crimean Tatars for honouring the victims of the Deportation
Russian police and FSB have thus far marked the 73rd anniversary of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar People with detentions and harassment of people, many elderly, gathered in prayer …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Attempt to Kill Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Agency Deferred
A parliamentary bill that could have killed crucial investigative work by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau has been sent for reworking a day before a scheduled second reading. The danger to Ukraine’s efforts to fight corruption has been deferred, but not eradicated …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Slain Crimean Tatar Symbol of Struggle against Russian Invasion Declared Hero of Ukraine
Reshat Ametov wanted his three children to grow up in a free Ukraine. When others were too fearful to join him in a peaceful demonstration against Russia’s invasion of Crimea, the 39-year-old Crimean Tatar came out in solitary protest. He was abducted by armed paramilitaries from outside the Crimean parliament and savagely tortured to...
