Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Lack of Reforms Has Turned Ukraine into a Vulnerable Basket Case
Marian L. Tupy Ukraine is back in the news. The country’s conflict with Russia, which has been ongoing since 2014, is heating up again. There is a real possibility that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin will try to grab even more Ukrainian territory in the months to come. The Russians are suffering from an economic downturn caused by Western...
Hillary Clinton Could Easily Push America into Open Conflict with Russia
Ted Galen Carpenter One especially disturbing trend in global affairs is the marked deterioration in relations between the United States and Russia. Much will depend on the outcome of the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Donald Trump has staked out a reasonably conciliatory policy toward Moscow. And in the highly improbable event that...
Denmark Lectures America on NATO
Doug Bandow Denmark is a shrimp in the European ocean. A pleasant place to live, it is a geopolitical nullity. No one much cares what the Danes think about the world because, they can’t do much to change it. Of course, not unless they gain control of another nation’s military, most notably, that of the United States, the biggest whale...
U.S. Closes in on Ukraine’s Firtash
The mega-wealthy businessman, who once partnered with Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, loses another round in extradition fight. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Putin flies into Crimea amid war games and tension
Vladimir Putin flew into annexed Crimea on 19 August, a day after staging war games there, and said he hoped Ukraine would see “common sense” when it came to resolving a diplomatic crisis over the peninsula. …read more Source:...
Manafort exit unlikely to end Trump’s Russian fetish
At the start of this strange US presidential election cycle only a hubristic Vladimir Putin might have expected that he and the Russian-influenced world would play such a prominent role, beyond that is the usual Reaganesque invocations of the former Soviet Union’s inherently evil nature. Yet the resignation of Donald Trump’s campaign...
What Should We Do About Crimea?
Is Crimea about to explode? The mainstream media reports that Russia has amassed troops on the border with Ukraine and may be spoiling for a fight. The Russians claim to have stopped a Ukrainian sabotage team that snuck into Crimea to attack key infrastructure. The Russian military is holding exercises in Crimea and Russian President Vladimir...
The West Has a Ukraine Challenge, and It’s Not Going Away
The Kremlin has found that Ukraine is too big to swallow. Nonetheless, despite Russia’s international isolation, sanctions against it, decline in oil prices, and subsequent recession, the Kremlin has not changed its Ukraine agenda …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Grave Fears for Crimean Tatar leader in Psychiatric Clinic for Saying Russia must Leave Crimea
There has been a sharp deterioration in the health of 59-year-old Ilmi Umerov who has been forcibly placed in a psychiatric clinic in Russian-occupied Crimea despite the lack of any grounds for the criminal charges Russia has brought against him, or for the supposed ‘psychiatric assessment’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Deutsche Welle is continuing to mislead the public about Russia’s Crimea land-grab
Internationally recognized borders are not re-drawn by armed annexations. This is certainly understood by Germany’s leaders and it is baffling that Deutsche Welle is continuing to present a different picture …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
