Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Comrade Moneybags: How Much is Putin Worth?
By Peter PodkopaevDecember 16, 2016 What we know: “American officials have concluded that Putin’s network controls some $85 billion worth of assets, officials told NBC News.” (2016) “Adam Szubin, who oversees US Treasury sanctions, has told BBC Panorama that the Russian president is corrupt and that the US government has known this for...
Diaspora vs. Moldova
The West-leaning candidate lost the presidential election despite overwhelming support from expatriate voters, raising many questions. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Summit Reaffirms EU Russia, Ukraine Strategy
Union leaders tried to bring members’ increasingly discordant voices into a semblance of harmony. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Europe’s Citizenship Sham
KleptoCast 3: KI’s Natalie Duffy talks to Harry Cooper of Politico Europe about Malta’s Individual Investor Program http://kleptocracyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/malta-121316-4.24-PM.mp3 By Natalie DuffyDecember 15, 2016 Thanks to Malta’s Individual Investor Program (IIP), European Union citizenship is up for sale....
Ukraine urges Dutch to sign EU deal
Ukraine on Friday (16 February) urged the Netherlands to ratify the EU’s historic association pact with Kyiv soon, after the bloc struck a compromise deal following its rejection by Dutch voters. …read more Source:...
China’s Grand Goals and Limited Options
By Jacob L. Shapiro China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy said in a statement on Dec. 15 that a Chinese carrier battle group, centered around the CNS Liaoning ship, carried out its first ever live-fire exercises. On Tuesday, the Center for Strategic and International Studies published a report that provided satellite images...
Post-Brexit trade deal “could be done more quickly” than CETA but Britain will face £50bn “exit bill” in Article 50 negotiations, says EU Brexit negotiator
Post-Brexit trade deal “could be done more quickly” than CETA but Britain will face £50bn “exit bill” in Article 50 negotiations, says EU Brexit negotiatorAccording to private minutes obtained by The Daily Telegraph, Michel Barnier, the European Commission’s chief Brexit negotiator, said a post-Brexit trade deal “could be done more...
Stoltenberg: NATO to hold talks with Russia
NATO will hold a fresh round of formal talks with Russia on Monday (19 December) to discuss European security and the Ukraine conflict, according to alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg. …read more Source:...
Germany and the V4 states cannot afford not to cooperate closely
Visegrad Insight in partnership with Eastern Europe Network of Fellows of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation is pleased to present articles by Jörg Winterbauer, Zsuzsanna Végh and Vít Dostál created on the occasion of ‘Germany and the Visegrad States: Potentials and Challenges of Cooperation’ conference in Warsaw, 25-27 November 2016. The...
Putin caught honouring notorious Donbas & Syria ’mercenary’ commander
Dmitry Utkin, otherwise known as ‘Wagner’, whose highly trained Russian fighters are known to have been involved in Russia’s invasion of Crimea, in the conflict in Donbas and in Syria, was one of Putin’s guests at a Kremlin reception to mark ‘Heroes of the Fatherland Day’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
