Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Stuck in the Ukrainian Conundrum: U.S. And Europe Need to Drop Sanctions and Negotiate a Way Out
Doug Bandow Many Ukrainians expect America and Europe to save them. Suggest that they are living a fantasy gets you tarred as a blatant fool and Russian stooge. Yet Ukraine shouldn’t waste time posing as a fairy tale maiden in distress waiting for rescue by the Western knight in shining armor. Kiev risks ending up as a failed state. Ukraine...
No, ‘We’ Aren’t Responsible for Chibok Girls: Political Proclamations Won’t Solve World’s Problems
Doug Bandow What do you do after you brought your party’s control of government to a dramatic end? You become an international scold and blowhard, blaming the world’s problems on everyone else—who have no ability to solve any of them. In fact, has-beens and once-weres often are brought in as decorations for international gatherings,...
Zhirinovsky Headed for the Scrap Heap?
A statue of the controversial Russian nationalist may be dismantled for breaching federal law. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Chernobyl Anniversary: Ukraine Holds Fast to Nuclear Energy Despite Disaster
April 18, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukrainian Prosecutor Wants 15 Years for Alleged Russian Soldiers
Kyiv says Russians participated in conflict in eastern Ukraine, as swap for jailed Ukrainian pilot might be moving closer to reality. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
HCSS: Defense Reform in Ukraine: Civil Society to the Rescue
Stephan attended a meeting on Ukrainian Defense Reform at the NATO Liaison Office in Kyiv. …read more Source: The Hague Centre for Strategic...
Treasury analysis warns UK GDP would be 6% smaller post Brexit even with Canadian-style free trade agreement
Treasury analysis warns UK GDP would be 6% smaller post Brexit even with Canadian-style free trade agreementThe Treasury will today release its analysis of the long-run cost of the UK leaving the EU. The 200 page report is expected to predict that if the UK left the EU and adopted a Canada-style free trade agreement with the EU, UK GDP would be...
Military Russian special forces do not accidentally select Juodkrante.
Vaidas Saldzhyunas April 17, 2016 The Russian military a few years ago could land in Juodkrante. This information is disclosed by the head of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence Arturas Paulauskas, has caused a lot of discussion. There were anxiety, and doubt, and even mockery, this scandalous fact silenced a few years – the...
Verdict awaited on Russian military intelligence officers captured in Donbas
Media hype suggesting that Monday’s verdict due on two Russians believed to be from GRU or Russian military intelligence could immediately be used to ensure Nadiya Savchenko’s exchange and return to Ukraine, is, her lawyer warns, premature …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Draconian laws set scene for mass arrests in Russia & Occupied Crimea
Two draft laws tabled in the Russian parliament have been described as setting the ground for Russia’s FSB to imprison people en masse on ‘extremism’ charges, with these increasingly used in Russia to silence criticism of the regime, and especially its annexation of Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
