Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
A new era may be dawning again for radical right populists in Austria and Europe
This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st century. After Brexit, last week delivered another potentially far-reaching result for radical right populists in Europe. On...
Crimean activist detained for defence of political prisoners Sentsov & Kolchenko
The organizer of a small picket calling for the release of, among others, Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko was detained on Saturday in Russian-occupied Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Rafis Kashapov spends 2nd birthday in prison for criticizing Russian annexation of Crimea
Veteran Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemiliev is surely speaking for all Ukrainians in addressing birthday greetings to Russian Tatar activist Rafis Kashapov and his twin brother Nafis on their 58th birthday. For all, in fact, appalled by the monstrous sentence passed on Rafis Kashapov for social network posts criticizing Russia’s...
Lessons for the post-EU British film industry from the collapse of the Soviet Union
Can the fall of the Soviet Union give us insight into the possible ramifications of the Brexit vote? Chris DorneyAlmost a week on from Brexit we have begun to see the ramifications of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, both financially and politically. Very little attention has been paid, however, to the effect this vote has had on...
Gorbulin: Russia is really preparing for war.
07/02/2016 According to Vladimir Gorbulina “big war”, to which more and more insistently, and which is prepared to provoke Russia, may well become a reality. This was director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, National Academy of Sciences, wrote in an article for the Mirror of the Week. “The current brief, apparently, a period –...
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European security and the NATO summit [What Think Tanks are thinking]
Written by Marcin Grajewski, © mrallen / Fotolia Challenges to security in Europe will take centre stage at the NATO summit in Warsaw on 8-9 July when its heads of state and government will discuss issues ranging from Russia’s conflict with Ukraine and its growing military assertiveness to turmoil across the Middle East and North Africa,...
Night Wolves Visit to Bulgaria Sparks Tensions, Clashes
The arrival of the notorious pro-Kremlin bikers club triggers fights between supporters and critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Slovak Eustream, Gazprom agree to cooperate on Nord Stream-2
Slovak government initially opposed the project, which creates a gas corridor between Germany and Russia …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Brexit is a Win for Putin
A vote for Brexit is a big win for Russia’s foreign policy. Moscow has made no secret of its desire to upend the post-Cold War settlement in Europe. Russian President Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian officials have regularly said that there will be new rules for global order or no rules. They insist that Moscow has the right to a...
Energy sector of Ukraine in 2014-2016: review and SWOT-analysis
Victor Logatskiy, a leading expert of energy programmes at the Razumkov Centre, provides a brief review and SWOT-analysis of the energy sector of Ukraine in 2014-2016. …read more Source: Razumkov...
