Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Watch List Findings: Dec. 10, 2016
What follows are the preliminary findings for issues identified in the daily Watch Lists this week. We are only sending findings that we regard as significant or potentially significant to keep this email manageable. We have findings for all the Watch List items. Should you be interested in findings not listed here, please contact us and we will...
Kleptocracy Weekly: December 3-9, 2016
“The idea of the West as a community of values is critically threatened.” Charles Davidson, KI’s Executive Director, testified before a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Corruption: A Danger to Democracy in Europe and Eurasia. New from KI Nate Sibley says Trump’s proposed lobbying reforms won’t be enough to curtail...
A Grim Anniversary?
Twenty-five years after, the majority of Russians mourn the collapse of the USSR, and its reverberations into their private lives. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Can Europe Resist the Trump Tide?
(Photo: Apex Archive / Flickr) Norbert Hofer is a nasty piece of work. On the surface, he seems like a bland, soft-spoken, conventionally handsome Central European engineer-turned-politician who emphasizes the conventional conservative values of family and nation. But during the recent prolonged Austrian presidential election — first round in...
December 9th, 2016
CHINA China’s Xi Calls for Universities’ Allegiance to the Communist PartyREUTERS China’s President Xi Jinping has called for allegiance to the ruling Communist Party from the country’s colleges and universities, the latest effort by Beijing to tighten its hold on education. The government has campaigned against the spread...
Work in Progress
Despite state funds earmarked for its activities, Ukrainian public broadcasting still hasn’t materialized. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Central European Day of Energy in Brussels: PRESS RELEASE
Language English Central and Eastern Europe needs to diversify the gas supply sources, not only the routes Diversifying the gas supplies to Central and Eastern Europe, not only by its routes, but by the sources of supply will allow the creation of a real gas market, with free competition between suppliers and freedom of choice for customers. In...
Прес‐реліз: Центральній та Східній Європі потрібно диверсифікувати не тільки шляхи, але і джерела постачання природного газу
Диверсифікація не лише шляхів, а і джерел постачання газу до Центральної та Східної Європи дозволить створити новий ринок природного газу з вільною конкуренцією між постачальниками і свободою вибору для клієнтів. У світлі цього, рішення Європейської комісії, що дозволяє Газпрому розширити доступ до пропускної спроможності газогону OPAL і...
Russia’s Military Reform: Why the Kremlin Needs the West
President Vladimir Putin’s much-vaunted military reforms are headed for the rocks unless Moscow can address serious political and economic challenges. Download the article (PDF)Wide-ranging reforms of the military that have been ongoing since 2008 have enhanced the capabilities of Russia’s armed forces, allowing them to more...
The peninsula as an island. Crimea in its third year since annexation
Regardless of the transport and social problems, the vast majority of the population have remained on the peninsula adapting to the new situation. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
