Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
What Putin is up to, and why he may have overplayed his hand
Each year on December 20, the Russian intelligence community pays homage to its enduring guardianship of the Motherland. It was on this date in 1917, six weeks after the Bolshevik Revolution, that Vladimir Lenin established the Cheka, an acronym for “Emergency Commission.” Over the ensuing decades, the commission’s nomenclature and...
A New Deal to Make NATO and America Great Again
There are some traditional but also a number of innovative ways by which NATO’s core values could be reasserted and reinvigorated in the wake of Donald Trump’s election.I have no doubt that Donald Trump’s presidency will do terrible harm to the moral, economic, and cultural ties that have bound the transatlantic community...
5 Ways Human Rights Have Dwindled in Russian-Held Crimea
5 Ways Human Rights Have Dwindled in Russian-Held CrimeaMarch 6, 2017Three years after Russian forces seized the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine, political repression has affected residents’ lives in a variety of ways. …read more Source: Freedom...
Is Trump Russia’s Manchurian Candidate? No. Here’s Why
“Is Trump a Manchurian Candidate?” The Trump as “Manchurian Candidate” scenario has been a constant query for my colleagues and I since we published our warnings in August and November last year about Russia’s influence campaign on the U.S. presidential election. This loosely plays along the plot line of the 1959 novel and follow up 1962...
The Prospects of Freezing the Conflict in Donbas
The almost three-year-long war in eastern Ukraine (Donbas) could become another frozen conflict in the post-Soviet area. The reasons for this are the lack of agreement between Ukraine and Russia on the future of the region and Moscow’s support for the Donbas administration by, for example, giving military support and recognising the civil...
Murray at Middlebury
Four days ago, conservative libertarian Charles Murray stood on a stage at Vermont’s Middlebury College to talk about his latest book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, with political science students. Instead of being heard out, this in Murray’s own words is what happened before a packed house: Then I went onstage, got...
V4+ Security: Strengthening the Eastern Frontier of the V4: Bratislava Roundtable
By Public Relations.On Wednesday, March 1st, the GLOBSEC Policy Institute’s (GPI) Defence and Security Programme experts hosted more than a dozen of international security experts from 4 counties for a series of policy discussions within the framework of the V4+ Security: Strengthening the Eastern Frontier of the V4 project.The keynote...
Russian-Hungarian déja-vu?
By Grigorij Mesežnikov. Photo: TAST/APRelations of Central European countries with other states are nowadays mainly determined by their belonging to the collective West. Central European countries’ membership in the EU and NATO which resulted from the complex social transformation and geopolitical turnover after the fall of the communist...
Ukraine Takes Russia to UN Court Over Rebel Funding, Crimea
March 6, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Fake news – a user’s guide
A protest against Donald Trump in Stockholm, Sweden. Reuters/TT News AgencyWith Zelig-like serendipity I was in Stockholm when #lastnightinsweden went viral. While echoing the melancholic majesty of a classic ABBA song title, the hashtag #lastnightinsweden actually referred to yet another Donald Trump dump of alleged “fake news” on an...
