Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Moldova Elects Moscow-Leaning President
Socialist Igor Dodon’s victory is marred by the logistics of voting abroad, where a shortage of ballots prevented many from casting their votes in the election runoff. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
We Are Building the New Ukraine, Three Years after Euromaidan
The need for reconciliation between eastern and western Ukraine is often emphasized in Ukrainian and international media, and has been the subject of dozens of roundtables in the past couple of years. Though originally from western Ukraine, I have lived and worked in the east for nearly two years, and I have come to realize that the approach and...
Donald Trump Is about to Become America’s President. Here’s What His Foreign Policy Should Be.
Doug Bandow Few people expected there to be a President-elect Donald Trump. Winning the election wasn’t easy. Governing will be much tougher. Although the Americans who voted for him likely are most interested in domestic and economic reform, international challenges are likely to prove more pressing. Indeed, the world may be messier in...
Russian Authorities Say Foiled Terrorist Plot
FSB detains Central Asian suspects allegedly planning to replicate the 2015 Paris attacks. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Trump’s victory spells trouble but also exciting, unimagined opportunities
A Donald Trump presidency is as unpredictable as it was unexpected. While some have welcomed the result, for many Americans, as for America’s friends and allies, there is a deep sense of unease about the future. Yet, strange as it may sound, the outcome of this election may depend more on what we make of it than on what Trump and his...
Memo to the Next Administration: Defense Spending Must Be For Actual Defense
In a disturbing indication of how difficult it would be to bring military spending in line with actual threats overseas, House Armed Services Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry (R – TX) told President Obama last week that his war funding request of $11.6 billion for the rest of the year was far too low. That figure for the last two months of 2016 is...
‘Arrests’ claimed over killing of Russian Donbas mercenary & war criminal ‘Motorola’
Kremlin-backed militants claim that they have arrested 6 people responsible for the explosion that killed Arseny Pavlov [‘Motorola’], the Russian mercenary wanted by Ukraine for war crimes in Donbas …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia holds Ukrainian hostages thousands of kilometers from their families
Russia is holding Sasha Kolchenko, Oleg Sentsov and many other Ukrainian political prisoners thousands of kilometres away from their families. Helping Larisa Kolchenko visit Sasha is just one of the tasks of a wonderful initiative by Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan on his Zhadan and Dogs rock tour …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Estonian national charged with terrorism over involvement in Kremlin-backed conflict in Donbas
Although 35-year-old Vladimir Polyakov’s lawyer has condemned the imminent trial as ‘political’, this was not the view of the Estonian courts who agreed to his extradition, and the charges are almost the same as those brought in the United Kingdom against Ben Stimson for his activities in Donbas …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
The unpredictability of military solution of the Karabakh issue for the whole of the Caucasus.
Teimuraz Toumanishvili The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh is the first and longest in the territory of the former Soviet Union. It is following the events in Fergana and the conflict that caused the local war, followed by conflict and war in some regions in the post-Soviet space: Transnistria, Abkhazia, Tskhinvali, Chechnya, the latter years – East...
