Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The IWP presented the survey on the priorities of Ukraine’s foreign policy
On September 14th, the Institute of World Policy presented the results of the sociological survey “What should be Ukraine’s foreign policy?” …read more Source: Institute of World...
Belarus Elections: Invisible, But Not Trivial
Photo by Serge Serebro In what may well qualify as their country’s most invisible election ever, Belarusians went to vote for a new parliament last Sunday (11 September). Only once the polls closed did the ballot draw broader attention: for the first time in over a decade a pair of opposition-minded candidates made it into the House of...
Russian Hackers Release Medical Records of Top U.S. Athletes
Revelations about Simone Biles and Williams sisters clearly meant as payback for the doping ban that prevented dozens of Russian athletes from competing in Rio. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
European Security Without the UK? No, thanks.
By Kacper Rekawek On 16 September 2016 Bratislava will host a rare and headline grabbing event – an “informal” EU Summit with all but one EU leader present. As a seemingly logical consequence of the Brexit vote, the UK prime minister will not attend a meeting devoted to the future of the EU after the recent British vote. This is, however, more...
Why the West Ignores Russia’s Wars
This month will mark one year since the beginning of Russia’s intervention in Syria and two and a half years since its invasion of Ukraine’s Donbas region. In Syria, Russia has indiscriminately bombed inhabited areas using virtually every type of conventional munition in its arsenal—thermobaric, cluster, and incendiary—killing around...
Keystone of the system. Old and new oligarchs in Ukraine
More than two years after the Maidan revolution, it is fully justified to say that the oligarchic system remains a key mechanism in Ukraine’s political and economic life. While it is true that the influence of the formerly most powerful oligarchic groups has eroded during this period, no such group except for the Family, i.e. the oligarchic...
Why the UK can’t just pick and choose from the EU menu after Brexit
The union is not an à la carte system. ShutterstockOne of the many as yet unanswered questions thrown up by the Brexit vote is what form the future relationship between the UK and the EU will take. Much attention up until this point has focused on existing models for relations. Will Brexit Britain seek to stay in the European Economic Area or...
Judy Asks: Can Ukraine Turn the Corner?
A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
“We would give Ukraine weapons, but what is the guarantee that it will not sell to the left?”
Goldfarb: Politicians and the US military directly say: “We would give Ukraine weapons, but what is the guarantee that it will not sell to the left?” West’s Love to Ukraine due primarily to the actions of Russia. But now the future of Ukraine depends on her own, because those who are against the country of lethal weapons is an objective...
Ukraine’s SBU abducts asylum seeker, takes her by force to Russia
Ukraine’s Security Service [SBU] have illegally seized a 26-year-old woman who had just applied for asylum in Kharkiv and forcibly taken her to Russia in a move which human rights activists have called treachery and which suggests a baffling degree of collaboration between Russia and Ukraine’s security services …read more...
