Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine’s MPs Forgo Pay Rise as Public Balks at Scale of Wealth
November 2, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Why the Revelation of Officials’ Cash, Cars, and a Church Will Change Ukraine for Good
In a bout of extraordinary transparency, 50,000 Ukrainian officials have declared their assets and incomes and it is easily accessible to the interested public. A staggering amount of wealth has been revealed and this very act is likely to have changed Ukraine for good. As declarations arrived on the publicly accessible register, it recorded the...
Lithuania Issues Third Survival Guidebook Amidst Russian ‘Aggression’
Tensions remain high in the Baltics since Russia’s Crimea annexation of Crimea, and Lithuania is preparing for a possible invasion. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Payback Time for Prison Abuse
Russian activists dox prison official who allegedly ordered torture of inmates. From Global Voices. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
US exceptionalism or withdrawal from the world?
There is an old American saying, ‘politics should stop at the water’s edge’. It means foreign policy should be driven by a country’s national interests and values, not its domestic politics. But it’s a myth. Britain’s vote to leave the European Union is one example of exploding this myth. Overnight, British citizens...
E-Declarations Reveal Ukrainian Elites’ Extravagance
Ukrainians are shocked at the wealth gap between citizens and their elected representatives. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine to investigate officials with over $100,000 in cash
Ukrainian authorities will investigate politicians and officials who declare cash assets of more than $100,000 (905,000 euros) and will impose prison sentences of up to 15 years on any found guilty of wrongdoing, General Prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko said today (2 November). …read more Source:...
Lessons of the UNESCO Vote
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 375 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israelis who cultivate the pipe dream of substituting Israel’s long-term bond with the US for an alliance with China and Russia should take a long, hard look at the votes of Moscow and Beijing at UNESCO, where they joined in denial of Jewish links to Jerusalem. Russian and Chinese...
Energy security in V4
In the recently published report on energy security and Visegrad Group the NCSS points out that our countries have yet a lot to accomplish to adjust internal regulations to the EU recommendations. How important is the relation to EU energy policies for V4 energy security? Indeed, today it’s multi-faceted problem to establish friendly...
Mediterranean anabasis of Russian armed/naval forces.
Or nostalgia for a new Navarino smoke. Teimuraz Toumanishvili Mediterranean Sea, as well as any transcontinental artery linking both on land and on water, various world areas, or sides of the world (as you want to call), has its own immutable and indisputable givens (features) that all and at all times should and should be considered. This type...
