Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kleptocracy Daily: October 25, 2016
New from KI In The Illusion of Russia’s Great Power Ideology, Peter Podkopaev argues that the Kremlin remains addicted to kleptocracy. Ben Judah explains how global corruption became a national security threat in The Kleptocracy Curse: Rethinking Containment. News Ahead of a series of major political meetings in China, Xi Jinping looks to...
What Can the West Do to Get Putin’s Attention? by Christopher A. Hartwell and Andreas Umland
Language English “What should be done about an increasingly aggressive Russia? The past few weeks have brought more evidence of Moscow’s moves away from international norms and law. From continued denials of complicity in the MH17 tragedy and the bombing of a humanitarian convoy in Syria, to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s...
October 25th, 2016
CHINA Xi Jinping’s Lessons from the Soviet CollapseTHE INDIAN EXPRESS As Communist leader Xi Jinping firms up his hold over China’s ruling Communist Party with his anti-graft campaign, his backers say Xi’s drive netting of over a million corrupt officials is necessary to prevent the party meeting a similar fate as the Soviet...
Belarus to Host Second Edition of European Games
Denmark cries foul as Baku, the games’ first host, passes the torch to Minsk, the only candidate for the 2019 competition. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
NGOs: Reject Russia’s Bid to Join UN Human Rights Body
Russia’s role in Syria should disqualify it from representing Eastern Europe at the world’s foremost human rights body, global NGOs say. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Counter-terrorist sanctions regimes: Legal framework and challenges at UN and EU levels
Written by Carmen-Cristina Cîrlig, © Argus / Fotolia Targeted sanctions against individuals and entities suspected of supporting terrorism are an important part of the United Nations Security Council’s counter-terrorism programme. Under the main counter-terrorist sanctions regimes created under Chapter VII of the United Nations (UN)...
Uncanny under-performer: fixing V4 innovation gap
By Maciej Kuziemski. Photo: International Visegrad Fund.Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has experienced unparalleled GDP growth in recent decades, nearly doubling the growth of the Eurozone in 2015, mainly through multinational companies’ investments and generous EU structural funds, yet has only slightly climbed the global value chain...
The Myth of Putin
By George Friedman The cover of the latest issue of the Economist features Russian President Vladimir Putin with a blackened face and glowing eyes. It is now official: Putin, and Putinism, are the work of the devil. That doesn’t simply mean that he is evil, but that, like the devil, Putin is powerful enough to face God and compete for...
Attack targets Central Bank independence, Gontareva reputation
The draft law suggests dismissing the NBU head and deputy heads, to make the process of appealing against NBU rulings easier, and to make support for stabilizing the exchange rate the central bank’s main function. Some of these allegations – including questions over bond purchases during Gontareva’s time as head of Investment Capital...
Could Finland become the next Ukraine?
After annexing Crimea in 2014, having stated the region ‘must be returned to Russia’, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s former advisers said the Russian leader would be setting his sights on Finland. He said the Putin regime sees Finland’s independence as ‘treason against national interests’. DM: Could Finland...
