Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Moscow’s Cyber Warriors in Ukraine Linked to U.S. Election
December 22, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Russian hacks into Ukraine power grids a sign of things to come for U.S.?
Russian hacking to influence the election has dominated the news. But CBS News has also noticed … …read more Source: American Security Council...
La Politique européenne de voisinage
Écrit par Philippe Perchoc © ismailgazel / Fotolia Depuis 2004, la Politique européenne de voisinage instaure un cadre général pour les relations de l’UE avec ses 16 États voisins les plus proches géographiquement. Ce cadre offre une coopération renforcée et un accès au marché européen par le biais de plans d’actions bilatéraux...
December 22nd, 2016
CHINA China Extends Its Clampdown on Foreign Nonprofits Ken Bredemeier, VOICE OF AMERICA Beijing has extended its clampdown on the activities of 7,000 international nonprofit groups in China, its latest effort aimed at curbing foreign influences in the country. Many of the estimated 200 permitted activities are non-controversial, such as work in...
Outcome of the European Council of 15 December 2016
Written by Ralf Drachenberg and Suzana Anghel, Shutterstock As flagged up in the EPRS Outlook for the European Council on 15 December 2016, this European Council meeting concentrated on migration and internal and external security, as well as economic and social development. As events unfolded, EU leaders discussed external relations at greater...
John McCain Is Wrong about the Russia Hack
Doug Bandow For someone who has served in war, Sen. John McCain is easily shocked. He has joined the chorus in Washington protesting Russia’s alleged hacking of the Democrats. He and his colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham are pressing for an investigation by a newly-constituted select congressional committee. McCain naturally blamed President...
Ukraine’s rising Euroscepticism
Ukraine’s pivot towards the West has barely begun, but fatigue and frustration are already setting in. …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
Syria: energy battles to regional alliances
The following article is the transcript of an interview conducted by Gateway House of Huricihan Islamoglu, Professor of Economic History at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey and a Senior Fellow, Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes, Nantes, France. Gateway House (GH): Popular Western discourse views Sunni-Shia sectarian differences, and...
A Lukewarm Hot Springs Summit in Japan
Russian President Vladimir Putin held all the cards in the Kuril Islands negotiations with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on 15-16 December. Amid a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape there were advances, but those who expected that the two leaders would, at one stroke, resolve the decades-old territorial dispute, were disappointed. Putin...
Police from Kyiv to investigate anti-Semitic attack on Uman Synagogue
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General reports that a team of detectives from Kyiv will be sent to Uman in the Cherkasy oblast to investigate the foul attack on a synagogue during the early hours of Dec 21. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
