Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Child Survivor of the Holocaust in Poland and Ukraine tells the story
Shimon Redlich: “understanding humanity” “We want more events like this,” said a Ukrainian member of the audience of the event on May 18, 2016, dedicated to the personal experience of surviving the Holocaust in Poland and Ukraine. It brought together the representatives of the Ukrainian, Polish and Jewish communities in London. Communities which...
Moscow Frees Ukraine Pilot in Swap for Russians Held in Conflict
May 25, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
The Struggle to Reform Odessa Reflects Wider Malaise in Ukraine
May 25, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
EU and Ukraine celebrate the release of Nadia Savchenko
Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko arrived home in Kyiv today (25 May) after nearly two years in a Russian jail, part of a prisoner swap in which two Russians held in Ukraine were returned to Moscow. …read more Source:...
Savchenko Released in Prisoner Swap
In exchange, Kyiv releases two Russians it accuses of being special operatives. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Realism Restrained: the Washington Playbook Strikes Back
Emma Ashford In Washington, D.C., where calls for the United States to do more abroad are incessant — whether in Syria, Libya, Ukraine, or the South China Sea — it can be unexpected and even jarring to hear speakers say that America should do less. So last week’s Advancing American Security conference, hosted by the Charles Koch Institute,...
Worldwide Search for Chechen Leader’s Missing Cat
‘I knew long ago that in the USA unevenly breathe to my younger friends,’ Ramzan Kadyrov says in puzzling Instagram post. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
One year of Ukraine’s De-communisation. A change in the historical narrative
The implementation of the de-communisation laws is visibly changing Ukraine’s political landscape, both in its physical aspect and its intellectual-moral aspect. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Nazi-era philosopher who wrote the blueprint for the New Authoritarianism
Donald Trump, Rodrigo Duterte, Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin – from Manila to Moscow, Washington to Budapest, populist authoritarians are the new normal. In Hungary, Orban, the prime minister, aims to build an “illiberal democracy” while in Russia, Putin long ago crushed independent journalism and political opposition. Turkey’s Recep Tayyip...
Russia-Chechnya Conflict: A Lion Waiting to Roar?
The deal struck between Kadyrov and Putin that brought the Chechen conflict to an end has led to a period of relative peace for the small republic, but the latitude granted to the Chechen president by Putin may cause long-term problems for the security of the Russian Federation. There’s a common tendency in articles concerning Russia to...
