Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Regional Security Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region
Introduction In a strategic contest between the West and Russia over the post-Cold War architecture, the security of the Baltic Sea region depends on its allies within NATO and the European Union. Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, it has been clear that the Kremlin is not interested in maintaining the status quo or that it interprets it in a...
The integrity of Central Europe is in peril
Who would have thought that Europe’s margins – places that always, as Czeslaw Milosz wrote, “knew far more about the West than the West ever knew or cared about the East” – could change the world by remaking the continent, bring down an empire of tyranny and rekindle the dream of a free, liberal and whole Europe. Those who were lucky to see...
Hurdle cleared to visa-free EU travel for Ukraine, Georgia
EU negotiators said Thursday (8 December) they have resolved an internal row that had delayed visa-free travel to Europe for Ukrainians and Georgians. …read more Source:...
Syria, Ukraine, and the Failure of Western Diplomacy
Hand-wringing by Western foreign ministers over Syria and Ukraine is no substitute for dealing with the shortfalls of diplomacy-especially vis-a-vis Russia. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Hollande’s mixed European record
François Hollande marked European politics with his interventions in the Greek crisis, the Ukraine conflict, and international military operations. But he was unable to drive progress on the EU’s core projects. EurActiv France reports. …read more Source:...
In a Russia-Ukraine dispute Paris court confirms state companies may resort to investment arbitration
On 29 November 2016 the Paris Court of Appeal (the Court) decided to upheld the arbitration award in the long-lasting dispute between Russian oil firm PJSC Tatneft (the Tatneft) and Ukraine. In this case, Ukraine was unsuccessfully trying to set aside $112 million investment treaty awards in favour of Tatneft. The main issues of the case was […]...
Putin will never restore Russia’s greatness
Twenty five years ago, on 8 December 1991, the leaders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine signed the Belavezha Accords, an agreement that dissolved the Soviet Union. Fewer than two weeks afterwards, leaders from all but one of the other Soviet states joined the Accords. Thus, the Cold War ended without so much as a shot being fired. A quarter of a...
Seven years for an SMS: Activists alarmed over Southern Russia treason convictions
Oksana Sevastidi was sentenced to 7 years for a text message from 2008 and she is just one of at least 10 people similarly charged and sentenced by a secret court in Russia’southern Krasnodar region. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean Tatars ’tried’ & fined for solidarity with victims of persecution
Russia is extending repressive measures in occupied Crimea to target those who dare ask why when their compatriots are facing persecution …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Far-right activist who ripped up Poroshenko portrait has sentence quashed
The Vinnytsa Regional Court of Appeal has quashed a 4.5 year sentence against activist Yury Pavlenko [Khort] which gained publicity, perhaps unwarrantedly, over the activist’s ripping up of a portrait of President Petro Poroshenko …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
