Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Gazprom says EU not needed as mediator for gas sales to Ukraine
Russia’s Gazprom yesterday (2 October) played down the EU’s decision to ease access to the Opal gas pipeline, crucial to Moscow’s plans to boost supplies via the Baltic Sea, and dismissed the bloc’s role as mediator in a row with Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Today, we are dealing with lack of confidence in political power and parties
42% of citizens favouring early elections – is certainly not a record figure. During the last years, this number had been even higher, exceeding, in some surveys, 50%. So today, we actually see a drop in the number of people who would like to hold early parliamentary elections. There is another problem. People primarily want to have early...
Kleptocracy Daily: November 2, 2016
News A backlog of cases in Hong Kong has caused a dramatic upsurge in money laundering and terrorist financing reports. (SCMP) A senior Scottish politician has called for a review of Scottish Limited Partnerships, which he says are being used as a front for international organized crime. (Herald Scotland) The Kremlin will set in train the sale of...
Hillary Clinton: A Hawk in the Wings
(Photo: CSIS/flickr) When Barack Obama was running for office in 2008, he was determined to redirect U.S. military efforts away from the “bad war” in Iraq and toward the “good war” in Afghanistan. This commitment to extricate the U.S. military from the dismal aftermath of a botched exercise in regime change earned Obama the exaggerated...
Kremlin Actively Plotting to Destabilize Ukraine with Mass Protests, Leaks Show
Russian President Vladimir Putin hates color revolutions more than just about anything else. They set him on edge. Now it seems his regime has embraced mass-based protests to destabilize Ukraine.On October 25, the Ukrainian hacker group CyberJunta published a trove of emails purportedly from the official government email account of Vladislav...
AFRAID WHO SILENT AND TAIL WAGGING.
Avraham Shmulevich Or why Putin suddenly began to talk about the peace. …”Do not be afraid the dog that barks, but fear that which is silent and the tail wagging” Russian President is able to surprise the audience. In the blink of an eye to change its position, to turn from democrat to dictator from an advocate of European values in the...
Land Warfare in Europe
Lessons and recommendations from the war in Ukraine …read more Source: Center for European Policy...
Presumption of confrontation
Russia / World Recent events have given rise to the claim that “the world is on the verge of a new arms race and another cold war”. Russia is perceived by many politicians in the West as a resurgent “evil empire”. Are such statements well-grounded and how might this new confrontation end? Most political scientists both in Russia and abroad are...
Media Behaving Badly
With public service media outlets endangered externally and internally, what about a European Court of Professional Media Conduct? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
November 2nd, 2016
CAMBODIA Confronting the Cambodian Genocide Through Oral History Mimi Kirk, CITYLAB For decades, information about the Cambodian genocide wasn’t part of official public culture. A 1991 peace accord, for instance, mandated that school textbooks not include material on the killing fields. However, this week an exhibit at the Bophana...
