Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
NATO-Georgia: The Open Door Policy’s Failing Test (Part Two)
*To read Part One, please click here. It was a summit of modest expectations and modest results for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Warsaw on July 8–9. These results are of an interim nature: building-blocks for further decisions at upcoming ministerial meetings, not waiting until next summit. The Warsaw results do not, as yet,...
What Putin Actually Said about Donald Trump
When it comes to speculations about the Russian president’s love for Trump, Western observers are lost in translation By Olga Kuzmina July 27, 2016 The massive leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee, likely the work of Russian hackers, has fueled speculations that the move was an attempt by the Russian government to boost the...
Lessons from Ukraine: Why a Europe-Led Geo-Economic Strategy is Succeeding
Over the past three years, the United States, Europe, and other Western allies have been unexpectedly successful at maintaining a unified, coherent, and effective policy to block Russian assertiveness. This is true even though proximity, intense interests, and the decision by Europe and the United States to rule out direct use of military force...
Ukraine’s Deadly Profession: Three Journalists Attacked in July
On July 20, investigative journalist Pavel Sheremet was assassinated in Kyiv. Sheremet hosted a morning show at Radio Vesti and was a top reporter at Ukrainska Pravda. A crusading journalist and native of Minsk, Belarus, he had already been expelled from both Belarus and Russia. He was killed by a car bomb.It would be easy to dismiss...
Moldova Earns IMF Reprieve
But scandal-plagued Chisinau hears latest of many warnings that it must reform its banks and clean up corruption before it can access international money. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Obama Hints at Russian Hand in Damaging Leak
U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating reports that government-backed hackers may have penetrated Democratic Party servers. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Moscow Patriarchate Throng Enters Kyiv
Officials, nationalists accuse marchers of being pawns in a Kremlin-backed effort to destabilize the country. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
All the Olympics are a stage, and all the athletes merely players: the rich history of the modern Games
The Olympics transfix us. Six in every ten people in the world – including both you, dear reader, and me – watched the London 2012 Olympics. Use of the word Olympics increased in relative frequency 3,300% between 1924 and 1984. But what are the Olympics to us, how are we to read them socially and politically? The Olympic Games are a theatre —...
What do the Olympic medal tables say about your nation’s sporting priorities?
from www.shutterstock.comEach time the Olympic and Paralympic Games come around, a small minority of nations tend to do well. On average, only 25% of competing nations at the Olympics will win a gold medal – and they’re pretty much the same ones year in, year out. Intrigued, we dug into data spanning back to 1948 – derived from our...
Trump, Putin and information warfare
The recent DNC hack, which led to the leaking of emails purporting to show favouritism towards Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders, is another example of the arms race moving into cyberspace. It has also sparked a frenzied hunt for the perpetrator, with Russia the most logical candidate. Undermining Clinton’s bid for the White House — or so...
