Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Get Naked and Get Workin’
Belarusians are stripping off their clothes in “support” of their president’s wishes for more nudity in the workplace. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia, Balkan Countries Sign Declaration of Military Neutrality
Most parties who signed the declaration oppose pro-Western initiatives prevalent in the region. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Brexit is not the beginning of a global security crisis
Now its people have decided to back out of the EU, Britain’s future place in the world order is more unclear than it has been for decades – but that still doesn’t mean that the world is less safe because of the British electorate’s decision. To read some reactions to the result, you might think the opposite. The journalist...
Groysman: Ukraine will join EU within 10 years
Ukraine will join the EU within the next decade, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said Friday, adding that his country still believed strongly in the bloc despite Britain’s vote to leave. …read more Source:...
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Strategic communication: the EU’s response to invasive narratives [Policy Podcast]
Written by Naja Bentzen, © Kheng Guan Toh / Fotolia Strategic communication (StratCom) is not a new concept, but its significance for the European Union’s external relations policy and security environment is increasing in the context of disinformation practices in relation to the Ukraine conflict and spreading into the EU, as well as...
Russia and the Security of Europe
Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014 was the latest step in Moscow’s long process of rejection of the post–Cold War Euro-Atlantic security order, reflecting a deeply held view that is unlikely to change anytime soon. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Worried About Brexit? No, Scared, Says Ukraine’s Former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
“I’m not worried [about Brexit]. I’m scared,” said Arseniy Yatsenyuk at the Atlantic Council on June 30. In one of his first public appearances in Washington since stepping down as Ukraine’s prime minister on April 14, Yatsenyuk urged Europe to get its act together. Brexit, he said, is a “huge geopolitical crisis”: the United...
Russian fined for reposting that the USSR & Nazi Germany invaded Poland
37-year-old Vladimir Luzgin has been convicted and fined 200 thousand roubles for reposting a text which correctly states that the Soviet Union, in collaboration with Hitler, invaded Poland in 1939. A Russian prosecutor claimed and a court in Perm accepted that Luzgin was guilty of posting “knowingly false information”. …read more Source:...
Minority Rights Group: On the situation in Crimea
In order to avoid further escalation of tensions between Crimean Tatars and the de facto authorities, MRG urges the international community to send a strong message to the Russian Federation, emphasizing its obligation to secure the human rights of Crimean Tatars as indigenous people of Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Belarusians Debate Their Development Path
The Fifth All-Belarusian People’s Assembly (ABPA) opened in Minsk, on June 22. The two-day gathering brought together 2,500 delegates representing managers from all levels of power along with publicly acclaimed “rank-and-file” workers, scientists, students, and so on (Belta.by, June 22). It is debatable why there is a need in Belarus for...
