Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Putin Talks Syria, Ukraine With Normandy Format Leaders
May 24, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine fatigue is spreading in Europe
The appointment of Yurii Lutsenko as Ukraine’s general prosecutor on 13 May will even further curb enthusiasm for Ukraine in Europe’s capitals. All branches of power in the country are in desperate need of reform, writes Michael Meyer-Resende. …read more Source:...
Cyberwarfare: Overhyped or Underrated?
Tactics used in Ukraine and Syria could be an accurate foreshadowing of one future aspect of warfare. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Normandy Four leaders discuss OSCE monitoring of eastern Ukraine
The leaders of the Normandy Four countries: Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine, held a telephone conversation early today (24 May) over the issue of improving OSCE monitoring in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Russia and Turkey Escalate: Russia’s Threat to NATO Goes Beyond Eastern Europe
By Genevieve Casagrande, Christopher Kozak, and Franklin Holcomb with Kimberly Kagan, Nataliya Bugayova, and Jennifer Cafarella Key Takeaway: Russia is waging a multi-front campaign against Turkey in order to weaken NATO in line with its strategic objectives. The use of a high-end Soviet-era MANPADS against a Turkish helicopter in southeastern...
Ghosts of MH17
The fallout from the senseless deaths of 298 people is not going away. Sooner or later, Vladimir Putin and his cronies will need to answer for their actions. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Chief Rabbi of Ukraine: The world must not ignore the suffering of the Crimean Tatars the way it once ignored ours
Our cry must be heard, so that the horror of the past is not repeated here and now. Our voice must ring out because the world is now silent about the fate of the Crimean Tatars. This was the message on May 18 from Yaakov Dov Bleich, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Not Forgotten! Solidarity Campaign for ‘Crimean Four’ imprisoned in Russia
Russia has hidden Crimean political prisoners: renowned filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, Oleksandr Kolchenko; Gennady Afanasyev and Oleksiy Chirniy as far from their families, the media and western diplomats as could be achieved, which in Russia is far. Join Ukrainian civic organizations in proving that it’s not far enough! …read more Source:...
The Futility of Dialogue With Putin
The need to keep the channels of dialogue open with an unpredictable Russia is taken as an absolute imperative by many Western politicians. But they are often surprised when this tactic backfires. The foreign ministers of the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held talks, on May 19–20, in preparation for the July...
Ukraine Could Join the European Union by 2030
Following the Revolution of Dignity, Ukraine has taken big political and economic steps forward. Today, we need to assess what has been accomplished and what Ukraine should achieve in the next fifteen years. The nation needs to set ambitious goals, aiming for an average economic growth rate of 6-7 percent a year. That kind of growth is possible...
