Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
A New Approach to Reintegrating Eastern Ukraine and Crimea
Russian aggression is not likely to go away soon. As a result, Ukraine needs to revise the current framework guiding its economic disengagement from the occupied regions of the Donbas and Crimea. Economic disengagement limits the risks of financing terrorism with money coming from mainland Ukraine, and makes sure that the occupied areas of Donbas...
Kleptocracy Daily: December 1, 2016
KI will host the first event in our new debate series at Busboys & Poets this evening. Join us to discuss kleptocratic influence in the media (free entry, bar/kitchen open). News The U.S. Assistant Attorney General called for the criminalization of anonymous companies. (Bloomberg) World leaders are meeting in Panama for the 17th International...
Watch List: Dec. 1, 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...
Belarusian Pre-Selections for Eurovision 2017: Contest or Freak Show?
Even after multiple failures, and questionable performances, Belarus keeps hoping to steal the show at the upcoming Eurovision song contest. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
When rulers leave
Politics While world political grandees busy themselves with internal political affairs, events are taking place on the periphery which could potentially set the course for development in entire regions. One such event is the extraordinary presidential election in Uzbekistan, following the unexpected death of its former president, Islam Karimov....
Ukraine Says Missile Tests Will Avoid Crimea, Mollifying Russia
December 1, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Yatsenyuk at the European Parliament: It’s Time for Europe to Do Its Part
With respect to Ukraine and Russia’s aggression in the eastern part of the country, Europe needs to step up its game.That was the consensus at “The War in Ukraine’s East: The Military Conflict, Diplomacy, and the Humanitarian Crisis,” a discussion co-hosted by the Atlantic Council and Members of the European Parliament Anna Maria...
ISRAEL IN FIRE OF HYBRID WAR.
/Or new – old Scythians tactic on foreign land ?/ – GCSSI Avraham Shmulevich So, what Israel faces – a new way of doing hybrid war. And this may face Ukraine. Israel underway for almost a week. From November 22 all over the country near the settlements of burned forests, shrubs and grass, green spaces in cities. During this time, in 1773 the...
Journalists Across the Globe Hang Tough In Face of Backlash Against Panama Papers Reporting
In late July, Moussa Aksar, the director of Niger’s L’Évènement newspaper, answered his phone and heard a familiar voice warning him that he was, once again, in danger. “Be careful,” a friendly source told Aksar. “Look out for yourself and be careful what you say on the phone.” Aksar had just published Niger’s first exposé from...
Global Militarization Index 2016 Trends in militarization in Europe
While Russia (2016: position 5) continues to be among the ten most militarized countries, the risen level of militarization of Ukraine has resulted in a change of position from number 23 in 2015 to position 15 in 2016. Not only Ukraine but Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, as well as the Baltic countries increased their military expenditures,...
