Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
How to Avoid Becoming Ukraine’s Most Unpopular Politician
Ukraine is a relatively young country. Its political traditions are still developing and its electorate can still be easily beguiled by every new leader who promises to bring the nation out of the economic misery it was immersed in after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ukraine is still desperately poor, ranked among the poorest countries in...
Fixing Europe’s collective insecurity
Leaders of NATO countries will open a summit in Warsaw on Friday which is expected to authorize a force of 4,000 soldiers in the Baltics and Poland — an attempt to prevent Russia from repeating its Ukraine policy of instigating an insurgency somewhere in the alliance’s eastern flank. Russia has already vowed to respond by deploying three...
Tymoshenko and Kolomoyskyi Score Wins in Ukraine’s Special Elections
Populism is on the rise in Ukraine, so it’s little surprise that Fatherland party leader Yulia Tymoshenko and oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi gained the most in Ukraine’s special parliamentary elections on July 17. Elections were held in seven districts across the country. Fatherland candidates won in Kherson and Poltava, while...
Russian Heads Roll in Doping Scandal
Allegations of state-sponsored doping during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics might lead to Rio Games ban. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Energy Reforms in Ukraine: On the Track to Climate Protection and Sustainability?
The energy sector in Ukraine is undergoing a fundamental transition. Yet, to overcome old structures and deep-rooted corruption, Ukraine needs a clear long-term strategy on the transition to green economy and sustainable energy. German and the EU technical support can play a key role in this process. Two years after the Euromaidan protests in...
Turkey Convulsed by Failed Coup: Turkish Voters, Not Soldiers, Should Topple Erdogan
Doug Bandow Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled Turkey for more than a decade. He should be enjoying his time of triumph. He towers above the political system, able to create and dismiss governments at will. The mayor turned prime minister turned president created a new, victorious Islamic movement. He eradicated the gaggle of old, squabbling secular...
With Blinders On
Russia’s privileged young millennials are savvy and sophisticated but also disillusioned, paranoid, and politically apathetic. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Explaining Germany’s contradiction: Energy Union and Nord Stream 2
The construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany has become one of the most controversial topics in European energy policy. For a majority of European policymakers and analysts, it seems hard to understand how Angela Merkel’s government can back the creation of a more secure Energy Union and a seemingly...
Genuine Investigations and Prosecutions for Increasing Crimes Committed in Eastern Ukraine Urgently Needed
Paris-Kharkiv, 19 July 2016. After a three-day seminar on documenting human rights violations held for Ukrainian lawyers and human rights defenders in Kharkiv from 4 to 6 July 2016, our organisations express their concern on the prevalent climate of impunity for crimes committed since the beginning of the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine....
Ukrainians Beware! Avoiding Arrest in Russian-Occupied Crimea in the Face of Mounting Repression
New FSB interrogations only confirm the need for the advice just issued by the Crimean Human Rights Group for Ukrainians wanting to avoid being arrested for ‘extremist’ views such as Crimea is Ukraine. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
