Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
A Rare Bright Spot in Ukraine’s Fight Against Corruption
Health Ministry buoyed by better procurement system, but electronic asset declaration hits a snag. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia – a “challenge” and “threat”.
August 23, 2016 “Belarus in the context of opposition to the NATO – Russia Threats and challenges to the sovereignty, independence and national security.”. Under this heading the dry analytical report is in peaceful relations with President Lukashenko in Minsk Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies hides a fascinating text about how the...
Long before Trump rolled in the deep, music and politics were entwined
Donald Trump in Scotland – musicians have asked that he refrain from using their songs at his political events. David Moir/ReutersTake three apparently trivial events: Ukraine wins the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, a rock star cancels a concert and a political rally features the song Rolling in the Deep by Adele None of these moments might strike...
Ukraine’s fledgling fight against corruption deserves EU support
It is crucial that the EU continues to help Ukraine fight its ‘culture of corruption’ in its struggle to establish democracy and integration into the West, writes Mark Demesmaeker on its 25th independence day anniversary. …read more Source:...
Putin Appoints Apologist for Stalin as Russian Education Minister
Olga Vasilyeva, the new arch-conservative Russian Minister of Education is known for her highly specific position on bloody dictator Joseph Stalin and for remarks implying that the figures given for victims of Stalin’s Terror are exaggerated …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Raising the Ukrainian Flag Volodymyr Rybak and Many Others Died For
The 25th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence would have been a very special date under any circumstances. After Maidan and then Russia’s invasion, that anniversary and the Day of the Ukrainian Flag have become imbued with acute poignancy …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Escalation in Crimea threatens Erdogan – Putin rapprochement
With tensions rising between Russia and Ukraine, Erdogan may find himself forced to decide which side of the fence he sits on. That may entail falling out of love with Russia all over again. …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
Ukraine at Twenty-Five
Twenty-five years ago, after seventy years of Soviet dominance and over three hundred years of rule by Russia, Ukraine declared its independence. This occurred after a national referendum in which over 90 percent of Ukraine’s voters chose independence. Every part of the country, including Crimea—which at that time had a population that was...
Russia is Surrounding Ukraine, but Where’s the West?
In recent weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been doing what he is best at: war mongering. It began with the Kremlin’s accusation that Ukrainian leaders had “chosen terror over peace,” despite the fact Russia has not been able to produce any credible evidence of the alleged “sabotage plot” in Crimea. Additionally, neither the...
Why has Russia been flying airstrikes over Syria from an Iranian airbase?
Kremlin/Ru, CC BY-SAThe Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, made it very clear where his country stood in February 2013 when he answered speculation that Russia might intervene to stop the implosion of Syrian state structures in a war that by then had been raging for more than three years: “We will not be fighting for our positions … and...
