Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Georgia’s Main Opposition Party Suffers Declining Support, Internal Fracturing
Giorgi Vashadze, a high-ranking member of Georgia’s formerly ruling United National Movement (UNM) and a member of the Georgian parliament, left his political party on May 5. Immediately, he unleashed harsh criticism for the organization to which he had pledged his allegiance for more than a decade. As Vashadze stated, UNM has adopted a...
Normandy Meeting Aborts Ukraine’s Proposal on OSCE Police Mission
Russia, Germany, France, and Ukraine held an expanded meeting of their foreign affairs ministers and senior staffs on May 11 in Berlin (the “Normandy” format). Two overlapping issues topped the meeting’s agenda: possible “elections” in the Russian-controlled Donetsk-Luhansk territory, and policing those proposed elections to make them look...
Ukraine Develops Its Case Against Elections in the ‘People’s Republics’
The “Normandy” powers’ (Ukraine, Germany, France, Russia) latest meeting, in Berlin, on May 11, which failed to address Ukraine’s concerns, has stiffened Kyiv’s refusal to go along with local “elections” in the Donetsk and Luhansk “peoples’ republics” (DPR, LPR). That territory is Ukrainian de jure but Russian-occupied de...
Engaging the Arts for a Vibrant, International Ukraine
Jamala’s victory at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest reminded the Ukrainian political class of the critical role arts and culture play in foreign relations and their unique ability to promote national interests. Ukraine’s culture holds tremendous potential to counteract what many perceive as a growing “Ukraine fatigue” in the West. To...
Russia Threatens Response After Montenegro Joins NATO as Observer
The Balkan nation might become a full member by mid-2017. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine cannot allow the Russian military to participate in the OSCE peacekeeping mission
Deployment of the OSCE police mission to Donbas is a very complex process that requires the consent of all parties. This opinion was expressed to the news agency Obozrevatel by Joint Director of Foreign Policy Programmes and International Security of the Razumkov Centre Mykhailo Pashkov. “Capabilities of the OSCE are limited. First of all,...
Counting down to Russia’s 2016 Duma Elections
As Russia gears up for parliamentary elections this autumn, how can the country’s embattled opposition and civil society offer a real contest to the Kremlin’s “imitation democracy”? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Former Tory Cabinet Ministers force Government to accept amendment demanding NHS protected from US trade deal
Former Tory Cabinet Ministers force Government to accept amendment demanding NHS protected from US trade dealThe Government has declared it is happy to sign up to a cross-party move to exclude the NHS from the terms of TTIP, the EU-US trade deal currently being negotiated. More than 25 Conservative MPs, including former cabinet ministers Peter...
Tortured Ukrainian ‘Sentenced’ by Kremlin-backed militants to 30 years
A Ukrainian volunteer fighter from Makiyivka who is on Ukraine’s list for exchange has been ‘sentenced’ to 30 years in the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DNR]. The Kremlin-backed militants have ‘convicted’ Yevhen Chudnetsov of “an attempt to violently seize power on the republic’s territory”....
Western Policy Toward Russia: Swinging Between Deterrence and Appeasement
In trying to find a way to stop the bloodshed in Syria and settle the conflict in the breakaway eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, Western foreign ministers have taken to guardedly praising Russia’s constructive role. This week (May 17), in Vienna, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov co-chaired another session of the...
