Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Anti-corruption Efforts Are the Starting Point for Further Reforms
The fight against corruption is one of the key reforms in Ukraine during the past three years since the Revolution of Dignity. However, despite all the steps that have been taken, the results are still far from what citizens, business and the international community would expect. In the World Corruption Perception’s Index 2016 (CPI) Ukraine...
A European security architecture that won’t work
Mike O’Hanlon is a great colleague, and we have collaborated in the past, including on a book on nuclear arms control. However, we do not agree on everything. Author Steven Pifer Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Center on the United States and EuropeDirector – Arms Control and...
The Ukrainian Banking Sector Looks Set to Regenerate New Growth
The Ukrainian banking sector is going through tremendous changes. The National Bank’s efforts to clean up the industry, the recent nationalisation of PrivatBank and the merger of Ukrsotsbank and Alfa-Bank are only a few examples. Tamara Savoshchenko, chief executive officer at Ukrsotsbank, and Roman Shpek, an advisor to the president of...
Sex Ed in Moldova: Easier Said Than Done
Despite several legislative attempts, and support at many level of society, the subject remains off-limits to the vast majority of Moldovan students. From Ziarul de Garda. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
College of Europe (Natolin) 5th ENP Phd Summer School call for applications
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 5th ENP PhD Summer School, 21-30 June 2017 “In Search of Resilience in the EU and its Neighbourhoods: Reconciling Democracy and Security?” College of Europe, Natolin campus, Warsaw Application deadline: 25 March 2017 About the Summer School The European Neighbourhood Policy Chair at the College of Europe, Natolin campus,...
Firms Seized in Rebel-Held East Ukraine as Blockade Tension Mounts
March 1, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine Moves Step Closer To Visa-Free Travel In EU
March 1, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Against All Odds
Above: General Morozov inspecting troops of a tank unit at the Yavoriv Training Range in Western Ukraine, 1992 Kostiantyn Morozov and the Unlikely Establishment of Ukraine’s Military Researchers like to share archive war stories: traveling across the world to review foreign archives, cutting through red tape to obtain access, deciphering...
It’s time to bring Putin in from the cold
Enough saber-rattling against Russia! For years, the cold warriors of the Western establishment have been banging the drum against Putin’s resurgent ‘evil empire’. But now there’s a new man in the White House, and he’s got a different approach. President Trump has ripped up the foreign policy playbook, promised a more...
March 1st, 2017
CHINA UN Human Rights Experts Unite to Condemn China Over Expulsions of Tibetans Edward Wong, NEW YORK TIMES A half-dozen United Nations experts who investigate human rights abuses have taken the rare step of banding together to condemn China for expulsions of monks and nuns from major religious enclaves in a Tibetan region. In a sharply worded...
