Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC is collapsing
The allegation – now accepted as incontrovertible fact by the “mainstream” media – that the Russian intelligence services hacked the Democratic National Committee (and John Podesta’s emails) in an effort to help Donald Trump get elected recently suffered a blow from which it may not recover.Crowdstrike is the cybersecurity company hired by...
Enemies of Europe Never Changed
Ahead of the Rome Summit Andrew Moravcsik, professor of Politics and Director of the European Union Program at Princeton tells Visegrad Insight that the future is going to be multi-track. And that Trump will reverse his negative attitude towards EU. Wojciech Przybylski, Visegrad Insight: At the Heinrich-Böll Foundation international conference...
More Arrests as Belarusian Crackdown Continues
President says militants funded from abroad planned ‘armed provocations.’ …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kleptocracy Weekly: March 24, 2017
The latest on KI.org: KI’s Executive Director Charles Davidson was part of a U.S. delegation in Lithuania that met with the Lithuanian foreign minister to discuss “Europe and the United States: Reaffirming Transatlantic Solidarity”. U.S. Kommersant alleges that an intelligence agent charged by the U.S. in the hacking of half a billion Yahoo...
Russia’s Slow Pivot Away From Europe
Russia / Europe Over the last five years, Russia has been trying to achieve two strategic goals: A “Pivot to Asia” (away from Europe) and a renewed focus on post-soviet integration with its Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). Both of those aspirations are rooted in the desire to break away from dependence on Europe, while reasserting its influence in...
Kleptocracy Daily: March 24, 2017
News An exiled Kremlin critic was killed in Kiev in brazen daylight shooting, which Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called “an act of state terrorism by Russia.” (RFE/RL) The Kremlin denies that French presidential candidate Francois Fillon received $50 million for arranging a meeting between Putin, a Lebanese billionaire, and the CEO of...
Tips for Russians Traveling Abroad
Useful counsel from the Foreign Ministry: avoid racial slurs, don’t insult an Uzbek’s mothers, and above all do not raise your eyebrows while in Britain. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Trans-Europe Express: Terror and the Rome Declaration: Westminster and beyond
It’s as though Europe was at war. What kind of war, it’s hard to tell. On the one hand, there’s Russia and its hybrid conflicts in Ukraine, Georgia and just about everywhere else, in one form or another. …read more Source:...
Former Ukraine Minister Named To Manage Puerto Rico’s Financial Crisis
March 24, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
America can’t be first without Europe
On March 25, European Union leaders celebrate the 60th anniversary of their founding treaty, a central pillar of the structure set up in the aftermath of World War II to solidify peace, prosperity and partnership in Europe. Over the last 60 years, the EU (and its predecessors) has served as an essential U.S. partner, for example by enhancing...
