Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Countering Information War – Lessons Learned from NATO and Partner Countries
NATO Liaison Office in Georgia, Tsinamdzgvrishvili street No. 162, Tbilisi, Georgia27 September, 2016 – 09:30 to 28 September, 2016 – 14:00The expert workshop “Countering Information War – Lessons Learned from NATO and Partner Countries” in Tbilisi is organized within the project “Countering Information War – Lessons Learned from NATO...
Russia’s Next Move on Ukraine
The most likely scenario for eastern Ukraine is that a low-level conflict will continue to simmer. Moscow needs to give up its pipe dream that a pro-Russian government will come to power in Kiev, and forget its convenient but misleading stereotypes about its large neighbor. | Русский …read more Source: Carnegie Moscow...
What’s holding Russia back from ratifying the Paris climate agreement?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that his country will ratify the Paris climate agreement in October, a significant boost in the campaign to have the agreement become legally binding by the end of the year. India will join the 61 other countries that have formally signed up to limit future global temperature rise to a maximum of...
Finnish GDP will grow slightly faster than anticipated in the spring
Finland’s GDP will grow by 1.1-1.2 per cent in 2016-2018; the focus of demand will gradually shift from the domestic markets to exports The volume of exports will hardly grow hardly at all in 2016; growth is expected to be 2.5-3 per cent in 2017 and 2018 as investment demand of export countries recovers somewhat and the competitiveness...
The Audacity of Nadiya Savchenko
“Russian propaganda made the mistake of using me as an example, and I just became too expensive for them. I am a person who never gives up,” said Nadiya Savchenko, a former prisoner of war, current member of Ukraine’s parliament, and one of the country’s most popular politicians, on September 22.Three days earlier, the Atlantic...
Fighting corruption the Ukrainian way: new elements
Overview of the activities of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and of the difficulties it encounters when carrying out its functions …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Interior Minister accused of hate speech against those forced to flee Donbas
Donbas-East SOS and other civic organizations have reacted with anger to remarks made on Friday by Arsen Avakov, Ukraine’s Interior Minister regarding Ukrainians displaced by the fighting in Donbas …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Press in Britain: Putin can neither believe nor trust.
/ Do not dig hole for another … World separatist Pandora’s box, which Russia is so eager to reveal, can destroy in the first place decrepit Moscow empire, striking its by own boomerang / – GCSSI. September 26, 2016 In a review of British newspapers: Russia accused of barbarism in Syria President Putin loses the support of the population The...
Belarus and Russia Experience New Bout of Tensions
In recent years, there has been no shortage of bad blood between Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka and the Russian Kremlin. For example, in February 2004, Lukashenka referred to the stoppage of Russian natural gas flows into Belarus, in retaliation for Belarus’s insistence on lower prices, as “terrorism at the highest level.” And...
Can Vladimir Putin Make the Twenty-First Century a Russian Century?
The role Russia is playing in Donald Trump’s election campaign is quite extraordinary. The candidate’s son has acknowledged that Trump’s companies have received large Russian investments. His former campaign manager Paul Manafort worked for Ukraine’s disgraced pro-Moscow authoritarian president for almost a decade. Two of...
