Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Here’s how smart power could help the UK reach 100% renewable energy
from www.shutterstock.comBoth Portugal and Germany have recently succeeded in meeting almost all of their power needs using renewable energy. But at the moment, the UK falls far short of this feat. In 2015, less than a quarter of the country’s energy was generated from renewable power sources such as wind, solar, hydro and bio-energy. If...
Putin’s Russia: Concocting an Ideology to Justify an Estrangement
President Putin’s rush to engage with Orthodox Christianity has more to do with politics than piety as he emphasises the differences between Russia and the rest of Europe.It may have escaped most people’s attention – especially the attention of most Europeans for whom Easter is now merely an occasion to buy funny-shaped chocolates –...
Ambassador Pyatt on U.S. and EU Solidarity in Supporting Ukraine
Remarks by US Ambassador Pyatt at the Institute of World Policy’s Ukraine-EU Conference on May 20, 2016. …read more Source: Institute of World...
Pro-suicide Groups on Russian Social Media?
News broke last week of a potentially wide-ranging problem, prompting action by the authorities. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine’s Export to the EU (Infographics)
IWP has prepared the infographics about Ukraine’s export to the EU in 2015 and first quarter of 2016. …read more Source: Institute of World...
“The Association Agreement with the EU: 2 Years On”
The results of the survey conducted by GfK Ukraine on request of the Institute ofWorld Policy. …read more Source: Institute of World Policy
Swedish TV SVT misleads viewers through Moreira’s ‘Masks of the Revolution’ film about Ukraine
Can lies that kill and distortion of events that have led to mass human rights violations be protected by the right to freedom of speech? Swedish TV SVT seems to think that they can since it has, despite strong protest, decided to broadcast Paul Moreira’s ‘Masks of the Revolution’ which gravely misrepresents Euromaidan, a tragedy in...
An End to Sabotage of Maidan Crime Investigations?
Newly-appointed Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko has held a meeting with lawyers representing victims of crimes against Euromaidan. While it is definitely early days, the lawyers are obviously pleased at the moves Lutsenko has announced which may help to remove the sources of sabotage from within the Prosecutor General’s Office …read...
Russia: how long will the inertia?
From BBC archive: …The change must first occur in the minds. For example, if Putin theoretically gone tomorrow, I would anxiously took it, because, given the mass mood, could be even worse. To the mind moves the collision with reality. You want to be an empire? And you have this power? I think in the next few years, regardless of what will happen...
A hole in the budget increasing at a rate of half a trillion rubles a month.
19.05.2016 “… Which is better: an endless horror or horror without end?” – /Russian folk joke/. The federal budget deficit by the end of April amounted to 8.6% of GDP, according to Russia’s Finance Ministry on Thursday. With revenues of 996.6 billion rubles, the government spent 1.591 trillion rubles. In other words, every third ruble of...
