Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Belarus Reforms Its Elections and Commemorates Chernobyl
Western organizations tend to use a single set of criteria to evaluate the electoral processes and the sundry aspects of the democracy and human rights situations in various non-Western countries. Many consumers of those ratings give no second thought to this practice, implicitly believing that everybody should be like “us.” Some, however, like...
Aleppo – Syria’s Stalingrad?
In a message on Thursday addressed to Vladimir Putin felicitating Russia on its Victory Day, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad compared the fighting around the city of Aleppo to Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II. It’s a powerful metaphor for the Russian psyche, driving home that winning the Syrian war in Aleppo’s battle...
How Ukraine Can Solve Its Local Election Conundrum
Even when it is effective, diplomacy can be an unsightly business. Perhaps nothing illustrates this better than that ugly, illegitimate child of Mother Russia’s war in Ukraine: the Minsk agreements. In recent months, Germany and France have been pressing Ukraine to pass a local elections law as the basis for holding elections in the Donetsk...
Information Wars: Ukraine and the West vs. Russia and the Rest
In the media battle between the West and Russia over what really has been going on in Ukraine, round one went to Russia — at least among audiences in former Soviet Union republics. Pro-Russian protesters remove a Ukrainian flag and replace it with a Russian flag in front of the Donetsk Oblast Regional State Administration building in March of...
Russian Orchestra Plays in War-Torn Syria
Symbolic concert honors victims of terrorism, as Russian and Syrian dignitaries look on. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Uncovering ancient Ashkenaz – the birthplace of Yiddish speakers
Did Ashkenazi Jews descend from ancient Turkey? Everett Historical/ShutterstockThe search for the location of Ashkenaz – thought to be the birthplace of Ashkanazic Jews and the Yiddish language – is one of the longest quests in human history. It has been lasted at least 1,000 years and is perhaps second only to Noah’s Ark, which has been...
Russia Says Foiled Terrorist Attacks
Security service says arrested Central Asians had been planning major attacks. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Why Ukraine’s NATO membership is not in America’s interests
It is time for Washington to make clear that Ukrainian accession to NATO is not on the table, writes Josh Cohen. …read more Source:...
Russian blogger gets 2-year sentence for reposting that Crimea is Ukraine
If the truth about the Soviet Union once resulted in imprisonment for ‘anti-Soviet propaganda’, just reposting an article entitled ‘Crimea is Ukraine’ can now result in a prison sentence for so-called ‘public calls to separatism’. You’ll also end up on Russia’s ‘List of extremists and terrorists’ …read...
An Unfrozen Karabakh Threatens to Ignite Entire Region
The Azerbaijani-Armenian confrontation over Azerbaijan’s breakaway territory of Karabakh has been simmering for years. The 1994 ceasefire was broken time and again, soldiers on both sides were killed year after year, and all attempts to find a political solution to the conflict ended in deadlock; but the outside world paid little attention....
