Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Ukraine’s Next Big Reform You Haven’t Heard of Yet
Ukraine watchers know all too well that for every success reported about the country, there are numerous setbacks. Yet there are encouraging signs currently occurring within the reform process, particularly at the local level.Perhaps the most successful reform is quietly taking place outside of Kyiv, and has the potential to reinvigorate civic...
Avoiding the East-South Divide Ahead of the NATO Summit
Transatlantic TakeWARSAW — Tomorrow the foreign ministers of Turkey, Poland, and Romania will meet in Warsaw for the first time in this high-level trilateral format. The meeting will focus on the upcoming NATO summit in July, sending a strong sign of unity in the Alliance’s Eastern Flank, but its implications go beyond the immediate...
Putin Says ‘Nyet’ to State Meddling in Media
Governments should not automatically label as propaganda news reports that rub them the wrong way, Russian leader urges. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
