Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
From Quasi-State to State Department: Rex Tillerson
The chief executive of one of the world’s largest companies has been nominated to fill the United States’ oldest cabinet position. Rex Tillerson, head of ExxonMobil, would be the first secretary of state in modern history with no public-sector experience. Nonetheless, this appointment is consistent with the Trump...
Lesson one for Rick Perry: The Energy Department doesn’t produce much energy
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration supervises the removal of 68 kilograms of highly enriched uranium (enough for two nuclear weapons) from the Czech Republic in 2013. NNSA/Flickr, CC BY-NDA former governor of Texas – the state that produces more crude oil, natural gas, lignite coal, wind power and refined...
Appeal from Aleppo
The White Helmets in Aleppo have given everything. Now we need the international community to do the same. Please share this message. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Closed ‘court’ in Russian-occupied Crimea moves to strip Crimean Tatar leader of his lawyer
A court in Russian-occupied Crimea has ordered that Nikolai Polozov be interrogated as a witness in the prosecution of Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov, giving the FSB grounds to demand his removal from the case. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukrainian hostages savagely tortured for ‘Crimea saboteur confessions’ fight back
Two Ukrainians seized by Russia’s FSB and accused of a ‘Crimean sabotage’ plot have lodged formal complaints with Russia’s Investigative Committee. Both allege savage forms of torture applied by the FSB to extract ‘confessions’ and demand proper investigations …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Rosneft’s triumph?
Economy The shock December 7 announcement that Rosneft was selling a 19.5% stake in itself to a joint consortium between Swiss commodity giant, Glencore, and the Qatari sovereign wealth fund, is undoubtedly the most significant development in Russian energy markets this year. It is a development of major geopolitical importance as well. When...
Watch List: Dec. 14, 2016
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...
25 Years without the Soviet Union: where are post-Soviet trajectories heading?
Language English On December 8, 2016, President of CASE, Dr. Christopher A. Hartwell talked during the discussion session “Reality Check: A new Cold War?” at the international conference “25 years without the Soviet Union: where are post-Soviet trajectories heading?” organized by the expert initiative “Minsk dialogue”. The events’s agenda...
Presentation of the research paper “Audit of the Minsk Agreemnets”
On December 19, the Institute of World Policy will hold presentation and discussion of the research paper on implementation of Minsk Agreements and possible scenarios for Ukraine …read more Source: Institute of World...
‘Many not happy’ with Dutch limits of Ukraine pact
Many countries are not happy with the arrangement to push through the EU-Ukraine pact following the Dutch referendum, in which a majority of votes rejected the deal, a diplomat said ahead of tomorrow’s (15 December) EU summit. …read more Source:...
