Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
What Ukraine Urgently Needs to Defend Itself
Many think that the United States should do more to help Ukraine defend itself. Analysis points to the potential of U.S. support for fundamental reform of Ukraine’s security sector. …read more Source:...
Watch List Findings: Oct. 15, 2016
What follows are the preliminary findings for issues identified in the daily Watch Lists this week. We are only sending findings that we regard as significant or potentially significant to keep this email manageable. We have findings for all the Watch List items. Should you be interested in findings not listed here, please contact us and we will...
Ukrainian way to the utopian future in 2040
Author – Alex Rohovyk, coordinator of Free Voice Information Analysis Centre Source: “Hvylia” ukrainedemocracy.org Ukrainians inherently have a creative view of the future. They say that to dream is to imagine a desired future. This requires taking a first step in the direction of that dream. If we can see the result, we can find the right way....
GELA VASADZE Place of Birth: Odessa, Ukraine Date of birth: 27 September 1968 EDUCATION: 1986 – 1993 Kazan State University Specialty: political scientist EXPERIENCE: 1991-1997 Republican Foundation “Intellect of XXI century” Kazan, Russian Federation Deputy Director 1998-2000 “Iveria Tobacco Company Ltd.” Tbilisi, Georgia Director 2000 – 2004...
Weekend catch-up: Team Guterres, the Timor Sea dispute, Boris’s protest, and more
This week former Portuguese PM Antonio Guterres was appointed UN secretary-general for a five-year term starting in January. In the first of a two-part series, Sarah Frankel examined the immediate challenges facing Guterres come 2017: It’s now Guterres’ turn to tackle what many have called ‘the most impossible job in the...
PUTIN: AS PLYWOOD OVER PARIS.
… Things are really bad for Putin. It looks like a trap, which for so long warned, as successor of Bolsheviks, politicians and officials, and experts are still starting to swing shut. Avraham Shmulevich October 15th The siege began Putin – the cancellation of the visit to Paris turned into a “public flogging.” There is an old Soviet anecdote from...
View from London: Pragmatic continuity
Russian actions in Ukraine and Syria will frustrate any attempts at a shift in UK policy on Russia. …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
West is Gunning for Russian Media Ban
It would be monumental, but Western states seem to be moving, ineluctably, towards banning Russian news media channels from satellite platforms and the internet. That outcome – albeit with enormous ethical and political implications – seems to be a logical conclusion of the increasingly frenzied transatlantic campaign to demonize Russia....
The New Deterrent? International Sanctions Against Russia Over the Ukraine Crisis: Impacts, Costs and Further Action
Publication date: 14th October 2016 …read more Source: NATO...
Kleptocracy Daily: October 14, 2016
Hannah Thoburn, Brian Whitmore, and Angela Stent discussed “Consolidation and Control: Power Shifts in Putin’s Kremlin” at Hudson Institute this morning. Watch the event here. News The U.S. is now investigating the theft of $1 billion from the Moldovan banking system. (WSJ) The UK’s Criminal Finance Bill will introduce “unexplained...
