Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
NATO’s Baltic Problem: How Populism, Russia, and the Baltic Can Fracture NATO
British Artillery defense systems deployed to Estonia in service of NATO. Photo by Laura Bullas. OGL, accessed via Wikimedia Commons. Over the past few years, a series of internal and external challenges have checked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bullying of Russia’s neighbors. Western economic sanctions inflicted serious harm on...
Navalny Vows to Fight Fraud Conviction
Putin’s only serious challenger may be forced to sit out next year’s presidential election. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Trump’s Conventional Foreign Policy
By George Friedman Things have not been dull since President Donald Trump took office almost three weeks ago, but something that has been little noticed is the increasing traditionalism of some parts of his foreign policy. Certainly, his order to suspend visas for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries was explosive, but in point of fact,...
Information war monitor for Central Europe: January 2017 Part 1
By Lóránt Győri, Patrik Szicherle, Veronika Víchová, Daniel Milo, Katarína Klingová. Photo: Flickr|Victor van Dijk, licensed by CC BY-NC 2.0At the beginning of 2017, stories about crimes, allegedly committed by migrants, dominated the media sphere in many countries, particularly those in Central Europe. Pro-Russian propaganda in the Czech...
Russian Information Campaign Against the Ukrainian State and Defence Forces
Publication date: 9th February 2017 …read more Source: NATO...
Ukrainian jailed for insistence that Crimea is Ukraine declared a political prisoner
A Crimean for whom the words of Ukraine’s national anthem about “laying down life and soul for our freedom” are his credo in life has become the latest political prisoner in Russian-occupied Crimea. The renowned Memorial Human Rights Centre’s statement declaring Volodymyr Balukh a political prisoner and demanding his release came as...
Who needs witnesses of Russian war crimes in Donbas eliminated?
The violent killing of Mikhail Tolstykh or ‘Givi’, one of the most identifiable militants involved in the Kremlin-backed fighting in Donbas was predictably, but not very credibly, attributed by the militant leadership to Ukrainian military saboteurs. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Escalation in the Donbas: Ukraine Fights for the Status Quo
Instead of implementing the deeply unpopular Minsk Agreements, Kiev has used the conflict as leverage to secure external support from the West and promote solidarity and unity at home. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Watch List: Feb. 8, 2017
The items listed below represent potential emerging issues that our analysts are tracking. These can be long term or short term, but will be updated daily. If an item on our Watch List becomes critical, we will email you a full analysis explaining its significance. Each Saturday, we will follow up our daily Watch List for each week with our...
Moscow and Kiev: Testing the US in Ukraine
Moscow and Kiev: Testing the US in UkraineWhatever the cause for the recent flare-up in eastern Ukraine, the signs indicate that the U.S. position will be instrumental in any future resolution of the conflict, one way or the otherWhatever the cause for the recent flare-up in eastern Ukraine, the signs indicate that the U.S. position will be...
