Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
US Troops To Russia’s Border – To Fight ‘Russian Aggression’
It is going to cost the US $3.4 billion, but Commander of NATO’s European Command Gen. Philip Breedlove announced that the US will be sending thousands of additional troops to deploy on Russia’s border in the Baltics, as well as in Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria. This “European Reassurance Initiative” is said to protect...
Morocco Bids to Replace Turkey, Egypt as Russian Tourist Destination
The North African kingdom wants to quintuple the number of Russian tourists within three years. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ivan Vejvoda Tertimony – U.S. Policy Toward National Self-Determination Movements
Mr. Chairman, thank you for the invitation to come and testify before you today. It is an honor to be here before this Subcommittee of the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress. I am here to offer my personal views on the question of self-determination. Introduction The democratic revolutions at the end of the 18th and beginning of 19th...
Europe Must Adapt to a Dangerous World
BRUSSELS: The terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22, following those in Paris last November, mark a turning point in the modern history of Europe. The European Union had already been weakened by a perfect storm of crises – the hemorrhaging of the eurozone, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a Biblical tide of Middle Eastern refugees and the...
Conflict Management in Ukraine
…read more Source: International Institute for Strategic...
PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTING OF KEY REFORMS IN UKRAINE
IWP has prepared an infographic about implementing of kea reforms in Ukraine. It may become a strong argument of the Yes-campaign on the eve of the referendum in the Netherlands on 6 April, 2016 on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. …read more Source: Institute of World...
New poll finds strong support for Boris Johnson to take over as Tory party leader
New poll finds strong support for Boris Johnson to take over as Tory party leaderA new ORB poll for The Independent has found that 38% of respondents would like to see London Mayor Boris Johnson taking over as Conservative party leader from Prime Minister David Cameron, with 23% backing Home Secretary Theresa May and 9% backing Chancellor George...
Tony Abbott’s open contempt for international human rights law
Reuters/Dinuka LiyanawatteFormer Prime Minister Tony Abbott has penned an essay in Quadrant defending his government’s stance on national security. It betrays an extraordinarily open contempt for international human rights law. Mr Abbott starts by saying that he is proud that his government was committed to “uphold[ing] our values around...
Was Abbott right on national security?
The transformation of Tony Abbott from a social conservative to security commentator has been stark. In his 2009 book Battlelines he offered a bare 4-5 pages of perfunctory defence of the Howard Government’s actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. In office, however, a portrait emerged of a man who ‘sits for much of the day…pondering...
Putin Cautions Kadyrov, But Gives Green Light For His Reelection
Meeting on March 25 in the Kremlin with Ramzan Kadyrov, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had signed a decree appointing the current Chechen leader as acting republic head when his second term expires on April 5. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
