Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Mafia methods used to get the ‘right’ court rulings in Russian-occupied Crimea
A moment of limited judicial independence in Russian-occupied Crimea on Jan 25 got forgotten amid the mounted offensive against lawyers defending political prisoners and imprisonment of human rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov. Any celebration over the refusal to extend the detention of Redvan Suleimanov would, in any case, have been premature...
Ukraine – Coup Government Tries To Sabotage US-Russia Rapprochement
Fighting in east Ukraine has restarted. This is an attempt by “deep state” forces to prevent any rapprochement between the US and Russia under the new Trump administration.The west-Ukrainian forces under command of the coup government of President Poroshenko started a large attack against the Russian supported Ukrainian self-defense...
Blow After Blow
Tabloid tells abusers how to exploit Russia’s decriminalization of domestic violence. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Heavy Fighting Continues in Eastern Ukraine
February 1, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Why Russia should liberalize its gas market
Why Russia should liberalize its gas marketThe liberalization of Russia’s gas market would almost certainly entail the downsizing of Gazprom and the rise of new “independent” producers competing on a level playing fieldThe liberalization of Russia’s gas market would almost certainly entail the downsizing of Gazprom and the rise of new...
Poland Takes on Russia
By Antonia Colibasanu When flying over the vast Pannonian Plain in January, you understand the reasons for Poland’s anxiety when it comes to national security. While the land was covered by snow, I could only think of how vulnerable it looked. There was nothing protecting the soft patches of whiteness in between the gray lines of roads or...
Escalation of tension in the Donbas
The most intense armed clashes between separatists and Ukrainian government forces since the beginning of this year have taken place in Avdiyivka. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Wargames in Warsaw
Just six months after the NATO Summit, military experts from NATO, think tanks and former members of the military gathered in a small room with only a few computers on the 2nd floor of Poland’s national stadium to play a wargame: a mock Russian invasion of the Baltic states. The purpose? Assess all of the Alliance’s capabilities and...
This IE EMBA Is Tackling The Humanitarian Crisis In Eastern Ukraine
Written by Marco De Novellis Source: businessbecause.com Vitaliy graduated with an Executive MBA from Spain’s IE Business School in 2016. Whether it’s in or out of headlines, the Ukraine crisis continues. According to the UN, almost ten thousand have died since the conflict started in April 2014, and tens of thousands more have been...
Schulz: Trump ‘un-American’, warns against lifting Russia sanctions
Germany’s centre-left candidate for Chancellor, Martin Schulz, has criticised US President Donald Trump’s policies as “un-American” and warned against lifting sanctions imposed against Russia over its role in the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source:...
