Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukrainians Jailed in Russia Flying to Kyiv in Apparent Exchange
June 14, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Dethroning Ukraine’s Oligarchs: A How-To Guide
Ukraine’s oligarchs are its biggest problem. If there is a single obstacle to establishing a functioning state, a sound economy, and true democratic accountability, it is the tycoons who control the country. Real reform does not stand a chance unless the tycoons suffer a severe blow to their wealth and influence. FP: Dethroning...
Plan for life after Vladimir Putin
The only thing that constrains Putin is the fear of an immediate strong-arm response that could destabilize the regime. It was the West’s unexpectedly concerted and tough actions that limited the Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine. Europe’s ability to act in concert is now Putin’s chief geopolitical target, because without it...
Fact Check: do 89% of businesses really support Remain?
Ready for my close up. Irina BragaIndependent poll: 89% of businesses back staying in Europe. Britain Stronger in Europe campaign claim Immigration and the economy have taken centre stage in the British EU referendum. The future economic performance of the UK in particular – its growth, job and wealth creation prospects – depends on how business...
Balancing act in Russia: Memorial – a little complicated and very successful
# 5 Divided DemocracyBalancing act in Russia: Memorial—a little complicated and very successful Memorial is a well-known, large, somewhat complicated, and very successful organization. Established in 1988 – still during the Soviet era – out of a civil-rights movement, Memorial is today a network, a confederation of more than eighty...
Polls swing to Leave as The Sun calls on readers to back Brexit
Polls swing to Leave as The Sun calls on readers to back BrexitIn a front page editorial under the headline “BeLeave in Britain”, The Sun urges its readers to back Brexit and argues that staying in the EU would be “worse for immigration, worse for jobs, worse for wages and worse for our way of life.” It said that outside the EU, the UK could...
Expert discussion “Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the context of domestic processes in Russia and Ukraine”
On June 9, 2016 the Razumkov Centre, with support of the US Embassy in Ukraine, held an expert discussion titled “Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the context of domestic processes in Russia and Ukraine”. The discussion was opened by Professor Alexander Motyl, a prominent Ukrainian-American historian and political scientist from Rutgers University....
Large-scale escalation in Donbas is possible only with the participation of Russian forces
This month, due to the hostilities in Donbas, 28 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, and over a hundred were wounded. Relatively quiet early May gave way to escalation and the biggest losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine this year, informs the news agency BBC. Despite the increase in losses on both sides, currently we cannot talk about serious...
Ukrainian diplomat: EU Association Agreement ‘major opportunity’ for agri-trade
The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is a “challenge” for Kiev but also a “great opportunity” for the longer-term competitiveness of the agriculture sector, a Ukrainian diplomat told EurActiv.com. …read more Source:...
A ‘Crimean Four’ Political Prisoner Placed in Notorious Serbsky Institute
Oleksiy Chirniy, a Crimean tried illegally in the same case as Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko has been brought from a Russian prison in Magadan and placed in the Moscow Serbsky Institute. The move could possibly be a step towards his release. There is still no sign that the Kremlin plans to free Sentsov...
