Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine Won’t Accept Changes to Association Agreement
June 30, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukrainian Opera Singer Dies While Fighting in Donbas
Wassyl Slipak had left a 20-year opera singing career in France to fight in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The dislocations of Brexit: can India gain?
On 23rd June 2016, citizens of the United Kingdom (UK) shocked the world especially their European partners by voting to leave -“Brexit” – the European Union (EU). Equally upset was the United States (U.S.), whose president had campaigned against Brexit. The U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry lamented that Brexit constituted the loss of his...
Gove and Leadsom declare Tory leadership bids as poll finds May would beat Johnson among party members
Gove and Leadsom declare Tory leadership bids as poll finds May would beat Johnson among party membersA number of Conservative MPs have today formally announced they are standing for the leadership of the party including Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom, Justice Secretary Michael Gove and former Defence Secretary Liam Fox, all of whom backed...
Where the new government should concentrate its efforts beyond our shores
The Australian government and opposition have largely focused on domestic issues in the election campaign. This emphasis is understandable, but in the longer term the government elected on this weekend will need to address the greatly changed world of 2016. Both Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Shadow Foreign Minister Tanya Plibersek have...
Inside the Green Economy: Nature or natural capital?
Green Economy sets out to rectify the failure of classical economics witnessed with regard to climate change and biodiversity loss by assigning a monetary value to nature and by integrating ecosystem services into the market system. Quantifying (accounting), appropriating and offsetting are the key methods of this route out of the climate and...
Russia extends embargo on EU food products
The Russian government decided on Wednesday (29 June) to prolong a ban on EU food imports from August, until the end of 2017, in retaliation for EU sanctions over Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Brexit is England’s silliest decision since Suez
It’s now over 70 years since British Prime Minister Winston Churchill told his Australian counterpart John Curtin of his wish to see a united western Europe, of which Britain would be a member. The allies had fought their way up the southern Italian peninsula but the Normandy landing was still a month away, Hitler still controlled Europe...
Kremlin Donbas Proxies launch Russian-style ‘fight against Ukrainian extremism’
While Russia continues, without any credibility, to deny its undeclared war against Ukraine, the Kremlin’s proxies in Donbas are introducing measures to ‘combat the ideology of extremism and terrorism’ copied straight from the Russian original. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
“Christ did not write denunciations!” Protest at mounting repression in Russia
Courageous believers have held a third picket in Moscow affirming that denunciations and prosecutions for ‘offending believers’ feelings’ run counter to Christ’s teachings. Their protest came as Russia’s upper house of parliament passed a law which criminalizes failure to denounce others and makes it possible to prosecute...
