Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Where Putin’s Russia Ends
In early 2014 the existence of an independent Ukraine hung by a thread. Russia had annexed the Crimean Peninsula, and with the “Russian Spring” a “hybrid” war in eastern Ukraine was initiated. At this moment the watchwords of “Novorossija” and Moscow’s “reconquering” of South-Eastern Ukraine gained popularity. Ultimately, the failure of the...
Cautious and rotational – US military engagement on NATO’s eastern flank
The Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 put a stop to the gradual scaling down of US military engagement in Europe. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Ukraine: The Line
The 500km line of separation between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatist rebels suffers heavy daily violations of the ceasefire agreed in Minsk in 2015. Escalation is possible, and the status quo risks a political backlash against the Kyiv government and no way out of sanctions for Moscow. All sides should pull back heavy weapons from...
After Warsaw: NATO, Russia and the Future of Security in Europe
There was a time when it was legitimate to wonder what NATO’s future role would be. Not anymore. If anything, the Atlantic Alliance is facing too many missions. Russia and terrorism are not the only problems: there is unfinished business in the Balkans, in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the migration challenge. NATO Heads of state and...
Two years on, Ukraine villagers mourn at MH17 crash site
Dozens of villagers carried flowers and lit candles on Sunday (17 July) at the site in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, where flight MH17 crashed two years ago, killing all 298 people on board. …read more Source:...
Bellingcat says Russia used ‘fake evidence’ to point finger at Kyiv in downing of MH17
The Russian Defence Ministry published doctored, misdated satellite imagery to support its suggestion that Ukraine was responsible for downing of a passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014, independent investigation group Bellingcat alleges in a new report. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Mass protest in occupied Donbas: “We want the system we had under Ukraine”
Attempts by Kremlin-backed militants in Horlivka to milk small business owners has prompted the first mass demonstration in the city since 2014. Over a thousand people, came out in protest against the militants’ methods for extracting money, demanding a system like that they had under Ukrainian government control. …read more Source:...
Prayers amid Mounting Terror on Birthday of Abducted Crimean Tatar Activist
17 July is the 31st birthday of Ervin Ibragimov, the Crimean Tatar activist abducted on May 24 this year from near his home. There has been no sign of him and there is nothing to indicate that the de facto authorities are making any real effort to find his abductors. That is if we assume that they were not behind his abduction …read more...
Crimean political prisoner’s brother also prosecuted
Yevhen Kostenko has been fined for showing disrespect to the judge who handed down a knowingly unjust sentence against his brother and Maidan activist Oleksandr Kostenko on May 15, 2015. The latter was sentenced to over 4 years’ imprisonment for an unproven offence during Euromaidan in Kyiv over which a court under Russian law had no...
TESTIMONY OF AMBASSADOR MASHA YOVANOVITCH NOMINEE TO BE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE
MARIE L. YOVANOVITCH CONFIRMED BY U.S. SENATE TO BE AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE Chairman Corker, Ranking Member Cardin, members of this committee. It is a privilege and an honor to appear before you today as President Obama’s nominee to serve as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine. If confirmed, I look forward to working with this […]...
