Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
October 17th, 2016
CHINA Xi Stresses Political Training for Non-Communist OfficialsXINHUANET.COM Communist leader Xi Jinping has urged a key socialist institute to make more effort to train non-communist officials who have strong socialist beliefs and work closely with the Communist Party of China. Xi made the remarks in a congratulatory letter released on Friday...
Treat Russia Like the International Poison It Is
Published by: Bloomberg.com & Written bij: Eli Lake On: Thursday, October 11th 2016. Photographer: MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images Russia’s ambassador to Washington is disappointed. Despite great potential for cooperation, Sergei Kislyak told an audience Tuesday at Johns Hopkins University that the two countries are locked in...
Biden Threatens to Threaten Russia
By Jacob L. Shapiro U.S. Vice President Joe Biden went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” yesterday and said the U.S. was sending a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden’s words come a little over a week after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security...
Rzeczpospolita and Maidan: How official Russian media inform about Central Europe
By Grigorij Mesežnikov. Photo: Flickr|streetwrk.com licensed by CC BY-ND 2.0“Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine confirmed the civilizational choice of its citizens. By removal of oligarchic kleptocratic regime which was supported by Kremlin and by claim to join the united Europe Ukrainians have sent a clear signal how they see the fate of their...
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...