Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Diary – ICRC President Peter Maurer in Ukraine
Article | This week, ICRC president Peter Maurer is in Ukraine, his second visit to the country since the conflict broke out almost three years ago. In this diary, he will share share some impressions of the people he has met and places he’s been. …read more Source: International Committee of the Red...
Ukraine Is Energy Independent in Some Sectors and Awaiting Change in Others
Ukraine, similar to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, and Serbia, is a contracting party of the Energy Community, whose goal is to extend the EU internal energy market beyond the European Union, by attracting investment, creating an integrated energy market, securing supply and enhancing competition. Janez...
Moscow Says UN Court Powerless to Deal With Ukrainian Complaint
Ukraine wants the ICJ to order a stop to Russian support for rebels in the eastern Donbas region. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kleptocracy Daily: March 7, 2016
News A court in Kiev heard arguments yesterday on the $74 million embezzlement case against Ukraine’s top tax official. (WaPo) More than 200 wealthy foreigners are choosing to pay £218,200 a year in tax rather than declare which of London’s £20m-plus mega-mansions they own. (Guardian) The European Parliament blamed Swiss...
March 7th, 2017
CHINA Corruption, Lack of Opportunities Challenge Job Growth in China’s Rust Belt William Ide, VOICE OF AMERICA As China’s economy slows to growth rates not seen in more than a quarter of century, the country’s Communist Party rulers are under increasing pressure to create jobs. Millions enter the workforce each year, and as...
What Russian Threat? Americans Shouldn’t Be Running Scared of Moscow
Doug Bandow Listen to folks in Washington talk about the supposed Russian threat and you’d think America was a small, third-rate country—friendless, stuck in Moscow’s shadow, possessing a tiny, obsolete military. The paranoia seems strongest from Neoconservatives who otherwise demand that the U.S. dominate the globe, bombing,...
How changing Ukrainian society impacts the chances for peace
In this commentary for PONARS Eurasia, IISS Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia Samuel Charap analyses the changes in Ukrainian society since the 2014 crisis. …read more Source: International Institute for Strategic...
There Is a Move Towards Change in Ukraine
Within the last three years the Ukrainian government has introduced more reforms than all the governments of the previous 15 years, says Satu Kahkonen, country director for Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine at the World Bank. She spoke to Andrew Wrobel about the business climate in Ukraine and the impact of the conflict in the east of the country....
What lessons Trump, Putin can learn from the 1986 US-Soviet summit
What lessons Trump, Putin can learn from the 1986 US-Soviet summitThree decades on, as the leaders of Russia and the United States prepare for their first meeting since the 2016 U.S. election, the 1986 Soviet-American summit opened a new path in relations between the nuclear superpowers. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American...
Letter from Genoa
By Jacob L. Shapiro This past weekend I spoke at a conference hosted by Limes, an influential Italian magazine focused on geopolitics. The topic on everyone’s mind was what U.S. President Donald Trump’s new administration means for the future of the world. I was asked whether Trump’s election portends the end of the “American...
