Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Europe after Brexit: A proposal for a continental partnership
This paper is the outcome of a dialogue among the five authors during the summer. It is published simultaneously in several European capitals under the sole responsibility of the authors, who write in their personal capacities. Abstract After the British decision to leave the EU, Europe’s trajectory, even its destiny, has again become a...
Keep EU sanctions on Russia says Lithuania’s foreign minister
EU sanctions on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine should stay in place as long the situation on the ground does not improve, Lithuania’s foreign minister said on Monday (29 August), dismissing calls from EU’s rotating president Slovakia for them to be lifted. …read more Source:...
Have Ukraine’s Reforms Stalled?
Few Ukrainians realize how impressive their economic reforms were in 2015. The question today is whether that reform wave will continue, or has come to a halt. …read more Source: Atlantic...
E-Declaration—and Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Strategy—in Jeopardy
A key element of Ukraine’s anti-corruption agenda is at a crossroads—and whether it is implemented on August 31 will indicate Kyiv’s commitment to reform. In October 2014, a new law requiring Ukrainian public officials to file an electronic declaration disclosing all of their financial assets was passed by parliament. This...
Ukraine’s Leaders Campaign Against ‘Pro-Putin’ Trump
August 29, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
How Could the United States Benefit from the Reforms in Ukraine?
The energy production at Dnieper Hydroelectric Station in Ukraine represents one of the many possibilities for US-Ukraine collaboration. By Maxim Razin. CC-BY-SA-3.0, accessed via Wikimedia Commons. After Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, the United States sought to establish diplomatic relations with the new nation in order to encourage a...
Russia Opens Probe of Moscow Fire Tragedy
Deaths of 14 Kyrgyzstani migrants underline the often hard conditions that Central Asian workers face. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
How to Manufacture a War
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office has released what it says are recordings of intercepted telephone conversations between Kremlin aide Sergei Glazyev and proxies in Ukraine, in which he gives them specific instructions about instigating unrest in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, and Odesa as early as February 2014 …read more...
Russia steps up torture of Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov amid protest over return of punitive psychiatry
Russia is ignoring international protest over its use of punitive psychiatry against Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov. As well as continuing practice that could endanger the 59-year-old’s life still further, men facing criminal charges have been placed in the same room as him. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Putin started maneuvers incredible proportions – the last time this was before the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Piontkovsky: Putin started maneuvers incredible proportions – the last time this was before the invasion of Czechoslovakia. A full-scale war against the Ukraine would be a suicidal move for President Vladimir Putin and Russia as a whole, however, the Kremlin may decide on it, a Russian historian and publicist Andrei Piontkovsky. “Any rational...
