Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Fireworks, feelings, and fraught relations at Eurovision 2017
For one week in May, the bleary-eyed in our workplaces are not the sports fans following northern hemisphere leagues, nor are they the new parents. They are Eurovision fans. And we are legion. The Eurovision Song Contest offers its fans glitz (or at least glitter), glamour, politics, intrigue, increasingly limited lessons in how to count in...
Ukraine: Europe’s frozen conflict
The attitude of the Europe, Russia and US to the situation in Ukraine is one that beggars’ belief: on the one hand, a collective denial that Russian forces are involved, on the other, a collective wish not to see it at all. This is despite the presence of OSCE observers who are documenting the frozen conflict in the east. This may be...
Shut Down the ‘Russia-gate’ Farce
The level of lunacy we’ve reached can be measured by the brouhaha over the presence of Russian photographers in the Oval Office during Sergey Lavrov’s visit: no US photographers were allowed, but the Russians somehow got in and the Paranoid Brigade went into overdrive. They may have planted “bugs” there! No, this wasn’t nutjob...
Massive global ransomware attack highlights faults and the need to be better prepared
Wana Decrypt0r 2.0 Ransomware Screen AvastA massive malware attack was launched on Friday, affecting at least 75,000 computers in 99 countries. Computers running Microsoft Windows were infected with “WanaCrypt0r 2.0 or WannaCry” ransomware. Once infected, all of the files on the computer are encrypted by the malware, which then displays a ransom...
NATO and EU defence [What Think Tanks are thinking]
Written by Marcin Grajewski, © Ch_Alexandr / Fotolia The US President, Donald Trump, will meet with the other leaders of the NATO member states at a summit in Brussels on 25 May 2017. Among issues on the table are the new US Administration’s commitment to Europe’s security, and the levels of military spending in Europe, which...
Kleptocracy Daily: May 12, 2017
The latest on KI’s website: Hungary’s descent into cronyism under Victor Orban. News Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has been found guilty of siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from a charity that she and her chief of staff had passed off as a scholarship service for students. Federal agents have seized nearly a half-million...
Launch of the EPC “Ukraine Forum”
Recent developments in Ukraine and its relations with the EU …read more Source: European Policy...
May 12th, 2017
CHINA Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Rally Displaced by Pro-Beijing Event, Organizers Say Mike Ives, THE NEW YORK TIMES Organizers of a pro-democracy rally held annually in July on the anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China said that they had been denied permission to use a downtown park, a move that threatens to raise tensions ahead of an...
Poroshenko: EU visa waiver completes Ukraine ‘divorce’ from Russia
In a statement on the occasion of the long-awaited EU visa waiver for Ukrainian citizens, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said today his country had now registered its “complete break up with the Russian Empire”. …read more Source:...
The Cost of Fixing Russia’s Economy
By Xander Snyder Russia is facing an economic crisis, and the search for palatable solutions has come up empty. Low oil and natural gas prices have hamstrung the Russian economy, which depends on the sale of hydrocarbons. President Vladimir Putin knows the status quo must change, but he has put off a decision on the path forward as long as he...
