Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Chafing at sanctions, Moscow pokes and pries at EU unity
Moscow is reaching out to EU states to undermine the bloc’s unity in hopes of encouraging them to use their power of veto to ultimately end or dilute the sanctions regime, which requires unanimous renewal every six months. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean Court refuses to find Crimean Tatar remembrance unlawful
The first good news from any court since Russia invaded and annexed Crimea caught everybody unawares. On June 7, the Sudak City Court found nothing illegal about the actions of four Crimean Tatars detained on May 18 for a peaceful act of remembrance …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Color Revolutions – Opium of the People
Karl Marx said of religion: Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness...
Civil Society Gives Ukraine’s New Prime Minister Positive Marks
During almost eight weeks in office, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groisman has inspired largely negative reactions from Western analysts. Noting Groisman’s close relationship with President Petro Poroshenko, observers fret the young prime minister will merely function as a yes-man. His appointment was variously described as “same old,...
The Savchenko Effect
The release from a Russian prison and return of helicopter pilot Nadiya Savchenko to Ukraine has ignited speculation about her future political plans. Elected as the first candidate on the party list of Yulia Tymoshenko’s bloc in the October 2014 parliamentary elections, Savchenko immediately entered politics upon her return to...
Ukraine Defies Anti-Semitic Stereotypes
Confronting a difficult history is no easy matter, particularly in Ukraine—a country caught between murderous regimes throughout the twentieth century. In his book Bloodlands, Yale historian Timothy Snyder places Ukraine at the center of a region where more than 14 million “non-combatants” were ruthlessly killed by the competing geopolitical...
Russia Says Will Resume Selling Gas to Ukraine
June 7, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine Struggles to Shake Off Legacy of Corruption
June 7, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Washington Must Stop Challenging Other Major Powers in Their Neighborhoods
Ted Galen Carpenter Every reasonable person understandably cheered the demise of the Soviet Union (a true “evil empire”) in 1991. But one unfortunate effect was to free the United States to meddle around the world in regions that previously were well outside Washington’s security perimeter. Not only did the absence of a powerful adversary...
Andreas Umland at the IWP conference “Ukraine – EU”
Andreas Umland, Ph. D, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, at the International Conference “Ukraine – EU: Turning Challenges into Opportunities” (Kyiv, 20.05.2016) …read more Source: Institute of World...
