Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
On Trial in Occupied Crimea for Upholding Russian territorial borders
The trial begins on May 31 of Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov who could face a 5-year prison sentence for saying that Russia must leave Crimea and Donbas. This is the second such trial in Russian-occupied Crimea where Ukrainian journalist Mykola Semena is facing essentially identical charges. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
The Stability of Trump’s Foreign Policy
Originally produced on May 15, 2017 for Mauldin Economics, LLC By George Friedman With no fat lady in sight as the opera unfolds in Washington, it is useful to stop and consider an interesting point: For all the tumult that has defined Donald Trump’s domestic policy, his foreign policy is relatively stable. There are some notable...
Comprehensive NATO
By John R. Allen and Stefano Stefanini. Photo| NATO. IntroductionIf comprehensive means “including or dealing with all or nearly all elements or aspects of something”[1] and that something is the international security environment, the Atlantic Alliance choice is not whether or not, but to what extent, to be comprehensive. NATO exists today, and...
Russian Authorities Apparently Antsy Over Opposition-Minded Youth
Film and pop music are being used to sway teens away from criticizing the state. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
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...
