Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Defending a national hero or dangerous extrajudicial methods?
The events on July 2 around the detention of former Aidar commander Valentyn Lykholit elicited widely divergent reactions and some worrying assumptions about what need not be considered in fighting ‘separatists’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
NATO’s Russian strategy must look beyond a Baltic mission: Christian Leuprecht in the Globe
Macdonald-Laurier InstituteMacdonald-Laurier Institute – Canada’s leading public policy think tank The strategic context is important. The worst outcome to follow would see Russia withdrawing from the INF-Treaty. Resurgence of a new arms race is… NATO’s Russian strategy must look beyond a Baltic mission: Christian...
Russia’s 200th Motorized Infantry Brigade in the Donbass: The Tell-Tale Tanks
The following post originally appeared on the Russian-language blog of the author, Askai707. There are three installments to this investigation: Part One, here (EN) and here (РУ), this post, and the final part, “Hero of Russia,” here (EN) and here (РУ). Below is an English translation of the post (translated by Aric Toler), which concerns the...
Brexit Spurs Worries in Ukraine Over Its Future With EU
July 4, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Chechen Leader Will Host ‘Apprentice’ Style Reality Show
Ramzan Kadyrov seeks a new aide – anyone can enter, only one will win. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Where Europe Still Lives
When history comes to a turning point, it’s useful to maintain a broad perspective on events as they unfold. Watching the passage of the UK’s Brexit referendum from Lviv, in Western Ukraine, drives the point home. …read more Source: Project Syndicate (Czech...
Post-Brexit power plays put Germany firmly in charge of Europe
Irrespective of petitions, speculation about when Article 50 will be triggered and the implosion of the UK’s two leading political parties, one thing is certain in post-referendum Britain – the country has voluntarily and irrevocably surrendered its privileged place within the inner circle of EU leaders. Nature – and politics – abhors a...
Outcome of the European Council of 28 June 2016 and the informal meeting of 27 Heads of State or Government on 29 June 2016
Written by Joséphine Vanden Broucke, Ralf Drachenberg, Susanna Tenhunen and Suzana Anghel, The 28 June 2016 European Council was described by its President, Donald Tusk, as ‘very much a British European Council’. The result of the UK referendum held on 23 June 2016 – in which 51.9% of the 71.8% of the electorate who voted opted for the...
Warsaw NATO Summit and Ukraine: What to Expect?
On July 6, the Institute of World Policy will organize a public discussion titled “Warsaw NATO Summit and Ukraine: what to expect?” …read more Source: Institute of World...
America Should Exit From NATO and the National Security State
In its reporting on Brexit, the New York Times asks an interesting question: “Is the post-1945 order imposed on the world by the United States and its allies unraveling, too?” Hopefully, it will mean the unraveling of two of the most powerful and destructive governmental apparatuses that came out of the postwar era: NATO and the US...
