Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kleptocracy Daily: September 9, 2016
Donald Trump appeared on Russia Today, the Kremlin’s influential propaganda outlet. He praised Putin’s leadership while criticizing U.S. foreign policy and the “dishonest” media. (Washington Post) Ukraine’s “technically crippled” asset e-declarations system faces further sabotage attempts by worried lawmakers. (Kyiv Post)...
U.S. Experience In Iraq Can Teach NATO How To Hunt Russia’s “Little Green Men” (from National Interest)
Much has been made over the past three years of the asymmetric or hybrid warfare conducted by Russia in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine. The essence of this supposedly new type of warfare involves the use of non-traditional instruments of [Read More…]The post U.S. Experience In Iraq Can Teach NATO How To Hunt Russia’s “Little Green...
Kleptocracy Weekly: September 2-9, 2016
United States Lobbyists acting for foreign governments routinely flout U.S. disclosure rules (Politico) How do anonymous companies launder money in the U.S.? CBS investigates. A major new report by Global Witness examines the systemic risk to investors posed by anonymous companies. Donald Trump appeared on Russia Today, the Kremlin’s...
East flank of NATO.
September 6, 2016 By Aleksandr Sytin No diplomatic efforts and attempts to “pacify” the Russian aggressors are without the slightest historical and logical rational grounds. Nor should we expect that the change in the first person, or even the ruling group in Russia will lead to a decline in tensions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union....
September 9th, 2016
CHINA A Not-So-Local DifficultyECONOMIST Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has promised a “great revival” of the Chinese nation. Presiding over the G20 summit was a perfect opportunity to show the public that he was on target. How awkward, then, that as he was doing so voters in Hong Kong were sending Mr. Xi a different—and, for the party,...
RUSSIA. ELIMINATION MECHANISM LAUNCHED.
By Anti-colorados 09/08/2016 … West reopen the plan, which has become a noose for the USSR and nudged bald dolls on this path. Anyone with a sense of self-esteem, he went to the abyss, and dragged for a fact that had to collapse in 1991. So all the wild projects, including ships, pipelines to nowhere, etc., should be seen as a movement in the...
Early Voting Underway and Under Fire in Belarus
OSCE has criticized the process meant to elect representatives for the lower house of parliament. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
War of Words
Recent “news” about a transfer of U.S. nuclear weapons to Romania showcased how disinformation, whether Russian-initiated or not, can benefit Moscow. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia fights Ukraine over the “Yanukovych debt”
The slowly developing Russia-Ukraine $3-billion sovereign debt dispute got a sudden new development when, at the end of July 2016, Russia requested the London High Court make the expedited ruling on this dispute. Following that, on 8 September 2016 the High Court has scheduled the hearings of the dispute for the 17-20 January 2017. The debt This...
Crimea Cannot Be Returned to Ukraine, Czech President Says
September 9, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
