Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Theresa May: “UK will play a full role until it leaves the EU, and will be a strong and dependable partner after that”
Theresa May: “UK will play a full role until it leaves the EU, and will be a strong and dependable partner after that”As she arrived at her first European Council summit, Prime Minister Theresa May said, “I’m here with a clear message. The UK is leaving the EU, but we will continue to play a full role until we leave and we will be a strong...
Beyond hard, soft and no Brexit
Recent declarations by political leaders suggest that a hard Brexit is the most likely outcome of the negotiation between the European Union and the United Kingdom that will start next spring after the UK government triggers Article 50. In Britain, several cabinet members have made statements pointing in this direction. And in Brussels, Donald...
Ukrainian Literature Series: “Decomposition” with Ukrainian Poet Lyuba Yakimchuk
Cosponsored by the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University Directions: Directions to the Wilson Center …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
October 20th, 1989
CHINA Rodrigo Duterte and Xi Jinping Agree to Reopen South China Sea Talks Jane Perlez, THE NEW YORK TIMES President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines met with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, on Thursday, as part of a state visit that the United States is watching closely for further signs of a warming relationship. No major agreements were...
Samuel Charap – Russias use of military force as a foreign policy tool
Russia has used its military beyond its borders with unprecedented frequency in the period since the invasion of Crimea in February 2014. In this PONARS Policy Memo Samuel Charap explains this behaviour, arguing that we should see Moscow’s use of force as one element of a broader coercive bargaining process. …read more Source:...
No Peace without the People: A Case for Grassroots Reconciliation in Ukraine
This week’s meeting in Paris of the Normandy Four is a critical one. If there is no measurable progress there to advance a framework for peace in Ukraine, public sentiment that Minsk is exhausted as a peace process will only grow. (Editor’s note: France, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine agreed to a preliminary roadmap for implementing the...
Head of Beleaguered Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Crimea detained after informing PACE of rights abuses
Archbishop Kliment, the Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Kyiv Patriarchate in Crimea, was detained on Oct 19. He was released this time but fears that Russia may be planning to ban him from occupied Crimea as it has Mustafa Dzhemliev and others …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Europe Funds Russian Aggression in Ukraine, Syria, and Beyond
On October 20, the Council of the European Union will consider its strategy toward the Russian Federation. Following the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Europe faces a genuine challenge: to recognize Russian aggression against Ukraine for what it is, and to provide truly effective measures to stop Moscow...
Russian Soldiers Sent to Ukraine Tracked by Hypermarkets and Unmarked Graves
Moscow’s continued denial of direct military aggression in Ukraine convinces nobody, it seems, with the latest confirmation coming from an unexpected, if sadly typical, source …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia is systematically driving tortured Ukrainian political prisoner insane
Russia’s Ukrainian political prisoner Stanislav Klykh’s rejection of his lawyer on Oct 17 and request for a singer to replace her is almost certainly linked with his psychologically disturbed state after 10 months of torture and psychotropic drugs, yet Russia is continuing to deny him a proper psychiatric assessment …read more...
