Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Austrian bank helps Russia provide passports to Donetsk, Lugansk inhabitants
The Russian arm of Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International is preparing to offer services to people holding passports from two self-proclaimed republics in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, the head of the bank said yesterday (16 March). …read more Source:...
Crimea annexation anniversary triggers reactions in US, EU
The US yesterday (16 March) condemned once again Russia’s Crimea annexation, vowing to maintain sanctions until Moscow returns the Black Sea peninsula to Ukraine. The EU prolonged personal sanctions and the European Parliament passed a resolution supporting the territorial integrity of Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Three years after the Revolution of Dignity: Why reforms are slowing, and how to prevent backtracking
On the reasons why reform is slowing down …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia now says it lied about Yanukovych letter used as pretext to send troops to Ukraine
Three years after Russia’s UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin read out a letter purportedly from Viktor Yanukovych asking Russia to send in troops to Ukraine, and almost a month after Churkin’s sudden death, the Kremlin is claiming it never received any letter …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
European Parliament demands Russia release Ukrainian hostages, slams human rights abuse in occupied Crimea
An overwhelming majority of European parliamentarians have endorsed a hard-hitting Resolution condemning Russia’s occupation and repressive measures in occupied Crimea. The MEPs call for the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners held illegally in occupied Crimea and Russia, and stress that Russia has no right to be applying its...
The Dutch election: A relief for Europe, a disappointment for the Kremlin?
The Dutch election: A relief for Europe, a disappointment for the Kremlin? The defeat of the populist candidate at the Mar. 15 Dutch election doesn’t necessarily mean that the rise of populism is over in Europe. With the immigration crisis in full swing, the trend will persist and the Kremlin will keep benefiting from it. Yet this...
The Kagans Are Back; Wars to Follow
The Kagan family, America’s neoconservative aristocracy, has reemerged having recovered from the letdown over not gaining its expected influence from the election of Hillary Clinton and from its loss of official power at the start of the Trump presidency.Back pontificating on prominent op-ed pages, the Family Kagan now is pushing for an...
Can Core Europe Move Forward without a Core?
Photo credit: ptnphoto / Shutterstock, Inc. The impact of the British departure from the EU and the growing internal and external threat to the European integration project have imposed the reiteration of a debate about the forms and shapes through which the continent can move forward. This happens on the backdrop of incomplete and insufficient...
Blank Spots on the Holocaust Map
Attitudes toward the Jewish past are changing in Ukraine and Russia, but old ways of thought cling on. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
How to put Crimea back on the European agenda
Three years since annexation, Crimea remains in limbo and there are few diplomatic initiatives for its return to Ukraine. Can a working group of committed parties put Crimea back on Europe’s agenda? …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
