Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Tatars Mark One Year of Blockading Crimea
A few hundred protesters vow not to let up the pressure until the peninsula is back in Ukrainian hands. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine’s Invisible Refugees
Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan are not the world’s only major “refugee” hosting nations.Ukraine too hosts enormous numbers of people who have had to leave their homes because of war. Millions fled their homes in 2014 after Russian operatives and tanks invaded Ukraine’s eastern regions and annexed Crimea.But they are not labeled...
Ukraine’s Economic Reforms: What Worked, Failed and Remains
Thu27OctResearch EventUkraine’s Economic Reforms: What Worked, Failed and Remains27 Oct 2016 – 10:00 to 11:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, LondonRussia and Eurasia Programme, Ukraine ForumParticipantsAnders Åslund, Senior Fellow, Atlantic CouncilArtem Shevalev, Alternate Board Director for Ukraine,...
Ukrainian First Deputy PM: The Dutch cannot block the whole EU
The Netherlands cannot block the European Union over the ratification of the EU-Ukraine Association agreement, Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister Stepan Kubiv told EurActiv.com in an exclusive interview. …read more Source:...
Thirty years on as ‘new Cold War’ looms, US and Russia should remember the Rekyjavik summit
White House Photo OfficeIn what looks very like a tit-for-tat downgrading of bilateral relations, Russia and America have traded diplomatic insults in recent weeks over nuclear weapons, geopolitics and economics, prompting speculation about “a new Cold War”. Moscow acted first, announcing on October 3 that it had suspended its agreement with...
The EU’s Russia policy: Five guiding principles
Written by Martin Russell, © Dugwy / Fotolia While EU-Russia relations had long been difficult, in 2013 they took an abrupt turn for the worse, after Ukraine signed an association agreement with the EU, and Russia responded with attacks on its former ally in spring 2014. The latest setback came in October 2016, following Western condemnation of...
Between the lion and the dragon
Russia / World Historiography habitually uses the term “between the lion and the dragon” to delineate policy pursued in the mid-18th century by rulers of Kazakh khanates who teetered on the verge between the geopolitical interests of two prominent Eurasian empires: the Russian Empire and Qing China. Ablai Khan is considered to be the most...
The Snowball Effect of Continued U.S.-Russia Strategic Mistrust
October 18, 2016 By Robert Shines In early October Russia suspended an agreement with the U.S. to convert weapons-grade plutonium into nuclear fuel. It did this as a result of the collapse of the Syrian ceasefire deal involving both the U.S. and Russia. As a result, both powers have allowed yet another regional proxy conflict, post-Ukraine, to...
Kleptocracy Daily: October 18, 2016
Tomorrow: Join KI, the Lithuanian ambassador, and a highly distinguished panel for The Threat of Kleptocracy: States Bordering the Russian Federation. Register to attend, or watch live from 9.30 a.m. Thursday: Join KI for the launch of The Kleptocracy Curse: Rethinking Containment, a report by journalist Ben Judah. Register or watch live. News A...
Watch List: Oct. 18, 2016
The items listed below represent potential emerging issues that our analysts are tracking. These can be long term or short term, but will be updated daily. If an item on our Watch List becomes critical, we will email you a full analysis explaining its significance. Each Saturday, we will follow up our daily Watch List for each week with our...
