Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
How Many Have Been Killed By Communism?
How many deaths is too many? VOC’s #CommunismKills campaign begins with the premise that each individual life taken by communism is one too many. Communism has killed over 100,000,000 people over the last 100 years and continues to do so in the countries of China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and Laos. This staggering number represents more...
What Ukraine Can Learn from Romania’s Fight against Graft
In 2015, Romania got serious about its corruption problem. DNA, its aggressive anticorruption body, indicted 1,250 public officials, including the sitting prime minister. Five other ministers, twenty-one members of parliament, and Bucharest mayor Sorin Oprescu were indicted. The agency ordered the seizure of nearly half a billion euros.Romania is...
Judy Asks: Are Referenda Dangerous?
Rosa Balfour – Senior fellow in the Europe Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States Little wisdom is to be found in the contemporary use of referenda. They are sold as tools of direct democracy to promote political participation among citizens who have turned away from politics. But in practice, they prize majoritarian...
Why Russia Fears NATO
Ted Galen Carpenter Adam Twardowski takes umbrage at arguments that I and other members of the realism and restraint camp have made that NATO’s behavior over the past two decades has exacerbated tensions with Russia. He begins his rebuttal with a drive-by smear that is increasingly in vogue among neoconservatives, dismissing such arguments...
October 12th, 2016
CHINA Protests Outside Chinese Defense Ministry at Army CutsTHE GUARDIAN More than 1,000 protesters have walked and chanted in front of China’s defense ministry, in the latest apparent demonstration by soldiers as the world’s largest standing military modernizes and downsizes. Demonstrations on such a large scale are rare in the...
Which EU commercial ships still go to Russian-occupied Crimea?
Private commercial vessels from several EU states reportedly still go to the seaports of Russian-occupied Crimea, in a blow to the international sanctions prohibiting any interaction with the peninsula. UAT: Which EU commercial ships still go to Russian-occupied Crimea? …read more Source: The American Center for a European...
EU shortlists Turkish journalist for rights prize
An exiled Turkish journalist, a Crimean Tartar activist and two Yazidi victims of the Islamic state group were shortlisted Tuesday (11 October) for the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize. …read more Source:...
Implementation of the Minsk Agreements: “Red Lines” for Ukraine
Ukrainian think tanks have prepared a memo for Ukrainian authorities regarding the “red lines,” i.e. the limits for compromise in the areas of political dialogue, security, and humanitarian issues that should not be crossed by Ukraine within the framework of the Minsk Agreements implementation. …read more Source: Institute of World...
“An open armed conflict – a matter of time”.
…Could such a confrontation last a long time without failure in open military conflict? I think it’s only a matter of time. 10/10/2016 Georgy Bovt about the consequences of a sharp cold snap between Russia and US Russia and the United States threatened by a new “cold war”? No, it is already underway. If the escalation of tension will at the...
Russia’s New Caucasus Initiatives
Security Few analysts have followed Putin’s new Caucasus initiatives. Given events in Syria, Ukraine, and East Asia, that neglect may be understandable, but it is a mistaken and harmful neglect because it causes us to overlook the overall strategic dimensions of Russian policy here. Moscow’s gambits in the Caucasus are inextricably...
