Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russian Guard began operations abroad long before its formal establishment.
/New Russian SS ?/- GCSSI. 04/13/2016 April 5, 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the creation of a new structure based on the Interior Ministry troops. New paramilitary has been called “The Federal Service National Guard troops” for short – Rusguard. It is noteworthy that under the authority Rusguard declared the possibility of...
Nordic Security: Moving Towards NATO?
This analysis considers how Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has impacted the potential for greater Nordic defense cooperation. By looking at 1) how this collaboration has evolved over time, and 2) the present defense policies of Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, the text’s author concludes that the creation of an enduring...
How many Crimean Tatars will Russia declare ‘extremists’ ?
Nobody expected real court hearings on Russia’s execution of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, yet the level of legal nihilism demonstrated has still been staggering. Crimean ‘Prosecutor’ Natalya Poklonskaya has just announced that she is suspending the activities of the Mejlis until the court ruling – just in case anybody was in...
IWP will present “Foreign Policy Audit: Ukraine-Hungary”
On April 20 the Institute of World Policy is going to hold a public discussion and present the research paper on the Hungarian-Ukrainian relations within the project “Ukraine’s Foreign Policy Audit”. …read more Source: Institute of World...
Putin’s Government in Donbas
In March, the German tabloid Bild published an article based on a secret document that reveals how breakaway areas of eastern Ukraine have come under direct Kremlin control. The revelations cast the ongoing Minsk 2 peace negotiations in a new light, one that illuminates the frustration being expressed by the Ukrainian government. …read more...
In Connections We Trust
Is there a way to develop a country where there is virtually no trust in the state? If someone thinks so, please let us know. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia Pushes Back ‘Putin’s Bridge’ to Annexed Crimea by a Year
April 13, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Russia’s Gazprom Challenges $3.4 Bln Fine From Ukraine
April 13, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Russian Internet Tycoon Reaching for the Stars
Milner pledges $100 million and enlists Hawking and Zuckerberg in space quest. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Saakashvili delivered an ultimatum to Poroshenko
Odesa Regional Governor Mikheil Saakashvili has demanded that the country’s president and government form a government of people’s trust. “We demand, first of all, that this collusion and conspiracy about government be stopped. I am urging people’s deputies not to vote for the new government under the conditions that have been...
