Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Why Russia gave up Alaska, America’s gateway to the Arctic
One hundred and fifty years ago, on March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his country’s last remaining foothold in North America, to the United States for US$7.2 million. That sum,...
The Donbas Apple of Discord
Experts weigh in on the implications of the ‘nationalization’ of Ukrainian companies in the rebel-eastern part of the country. From Hromadske. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Defrosting relations with Russia and debunking ‘grand narratives’
Igor Bukhlin/ShutterstockInternational affairs is about whose story wins. The fine line between diplomacy and public relations is about the distinction between communicating policies and selling them. Nothing illustrates this better than the current hyper-polarized talk about clashing “narratives” on World Order between the West and Russia. Major...
What to Know About the Protests in Belarus
29 March 2017Late March saw a heavy-handed government response and mass arrests at a series of protest rallies in Belarus. Keir Giles takes a closer look at what has been going on. Keir Giles Twitter Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme Police block the road during a demonstration in Minsk. Photo by Getty Images. What happened?25 March...
Intercontinental Startup Battle in San Francisco
We are happy to announce Intercontinental Startup Battle – one of the most important business events of 2017! Produced in collaboration by Startup.Network and HACK Temple. This is an international investment battle, in which the most advantageous and investment-appealing startups from East European countries and California are going to fight....
UK Court Says Ukraine Has No ‘Justiciable Defense’ in $3 Billion Russia Bond Case
March 29, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
March 29th, 2017
CHINA China’s Secret Plan to Crush SpaceX and the US Space Program Clay Dillow, CNBC Though Chinese space authorities have publicly announced the country’s ambitions to forge itself into a major space power by the early 2030s, Communist Party Leader Xi Jinping’s government is also considering ways to direct spending that will...
How the Sanctions Are Helping Putin
Having found itself in a lose-lose situation, the West will most probably do nothing-keeping sanctions in place and freezing the situation. The Kremlin will be happy. Russia won’t stop meddling in Ukraine or give up Crimea. …read more Source: Carnegie Moscow...
Continuing crackdown and police violence in Belarus
The Civic Solidarity movement condemns mass detentions and police violence against peaceful demonstrators, calls for a strong reaction by the international community …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
New attack on Crimean Tatar rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov
Crimean Tatar rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov has been summoned for questioning and informed he is facing a preliminary criminal investigation on absurd charges. This is the latest overt offensive against Kurbedinov and other lawyers defending Russia’s ever-increasing number of political prisoners in occupied Crimea. …read more Source:...
