Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine, Russia and the EU: Breaking the deadlock in the Minsk process
Ukraine, Russia and the EU: Breaking the deadlock in the Minsk processHrant KostanyanStefan Meister09 June 2016 …read more Source: Centre for European Policy...
Polish generals saw in the Ukrainian army, “fifth column”, “Poroshenko should spend personal reform in the armed forces”.
“It’s very alarming signals, if it be connected with the strong influence of the Russian special services in the staff structure” 07/12/2015 To improve the situation in the Ukrainian army to get rid of all the pro-Russian officers, as well as return to the leadership of the army officers who previously gained experience of international...
Local content quotas on TV are global – it just doesn’t work everywhere
Strict security at the South African Broadcasting Corporation before the country’s 2004 national elections. EPA/Jon HrusaThe Chief Operating Officer of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Hlaudi Motsoeneng, announced early in May 2016 that 80% of all films broadcast on one of the public broadcaster’s channels, SABC 3,...
The State of Peace in 2016
The tenth edition of the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace finds that the world is becoming less peaceful and the gap between the most and least peaceful countries continues to widen. Released this week at the House of Lords in London, the 2016 GPI shows that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)...
The beginning of reforms to the Ukrainian judicial system
The new acts are intended to reform Ukrainian justice, which is completely corrupt, and is regarded by the public with suspicion, if not downright hostility. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Outgoing Bulgarian President warns Russia trying to ‘destroy’ EU
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev yesterday (8 June) warned that Russia was out to “destroy” the European Union as the Ukraine crisis ushered in an era of “Cold Peace”. …read more Source:...
Pavlensky says he will not pay fine after his unexpected release
A Moscow court on June 8 rather unexpectedly released Pyotr Pavlensky from custody, after finding him guilty and fining him for damaging what was referred to as a ‘site of cultural heritage’, namely a door to the FSB building on Lubyanka Square …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Import Substitution and Economic Sovereignty in Russia
Project: Russia and Eurasia Programme09 June 2016 Dr Richard ConnollyAssociate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme Professor Philip Hanson OBEAssociate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme Russia’s dependency on oil and gas exports makes its economic sovereignty fragile and import substitution would reduce this dependency only if it were...
Russian lawyers face reprisals for defending tortured Ukrainian prisoners
Russia’s contempt for the law demonstrated in the trial of Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh who were illegally imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to over 20 years on trumped-up charges has now extended to the lawyers defending them. . …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine Update
David Speedie discusses with Dr. Nicolai Petro the situation in Ukraine–political, economic, and the growing civil conflict between East and West–two years into the Poroshenko presidency. …read more Source: Carnegie Council for Ethics in International...
