Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
How Trump will reconfigure geopolitics
Ambassador Neelam Deo delivered this speech titled “Trump’s America: reconfiguring global geopolitics” at the grand finale of ‘The Mind Games’ – a platform for talent development & idea generation at Mahindra Partners on January 18, 2017....
The US election and the Ukraine Connection
The Ukraine conflict might explain Russian intervention in the US presidential race. Samuel Charap and Timothy J. Colton call for compromise and dialogue. …read more Source: International Institute for Strategic...
Human Trafficking: open question in the Shut-In Russia
Society January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the United States. Although at first glance human trafficking does not seem to be a contentious topic, the issue of human trafficking is a political one in countries the world over. From the adoption of the Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in...
Russia: Its Boundaries In 2050
Related Commentaryvia StrategikaIn the late 1960s, Charles de Gaulle is reputed to have commented that the Soviet Union would collapse before the end of the twentieth century and that Russia itself would find its eastern borders back on the Urals before the twenty-first century had ended. Given our focus on the present it is impossible to predict...
The Kazakh Connection And The Future of Russia’s Borders
Related Commentaryvia StrategikaSince Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012, Russian revisionism has focused on the western reaches of the former Soviet Union. He has annexed Crimea and unleashed his surrogate forces in Southeast Ukraine. He has tested NATO defenses in the Baltic and North Sea, while intimidating Estonia, Latvia, and...
Even Russian Prosecutor General criticizes anti-protest law used to jail Ildar Dadin
Russia’s Constitutional Court is due to give its judgement on a notorious article of the criminal code used to imprison civic activist Ildar Dadin for totally peaceful protest. Courts in Russia at all levels almost invariably uphold politically-motivated rulings, and the Court will almost certainly reject Dadin’s appeal, however there...
Historical Truth Banned in Russian-Occupied Crimea
Where Russia cannot prosecute for annoyingly inconvenient but entirely provable truth, it opts for bans. This appears to have now happened with the Kyiv-based website Istorychna Pravda [Historical Truth …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
The Neocon Lament: Nobody Wants Them in Trump’s Washington
There is no limit to the hubris driven hypocrisy of America’s stalwart neoconservatives. A recent Washington Post front page article entitled “‘Never Trump’ national-security Republicans fear they have been blacklisted” shares with the reader the heartbreak of those so-called GOP foreign policy experts who have apparently been ignored...
The Last Chance To Get Russian-U.S. Relationship Right
By Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – The great flaw in ex-president Barack Obama’s record was his policy towards Russia. Going against everything he had said and written about before he became president, one action after another antagonised the Russians. His early proclamation that he wanted Georgia and Ukraine in NATO, his de...
Why US policy toward Russia will not take a U-turn under Trump
Why US policy toward Russia will not take a U-turn under TrumpThe current “bromance” between Trump and Putin and early signs that the two leaders will find common ground are no assurance of good and sustainable relations between the U.S. and RussiaThe current “bromance” between Trump and Putin and early signs that the two leaders will find common...
