Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Ukrainian parliament extends moratorium on Russian eurobond payments
Verkhonva Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian parliament) voted for a termless moratorium on payment of Eurobonds on the loan granted to Ukraine by the Russian Federation in December 2013. 242 MPs voted for the bill in the first reading. Presenting the bill, Deputy of the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Oksana Markarova explained, that in case […]...
Yatsenyuk’s Resignation and the Formation of Ukraine’s Next Government
With Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s resignation, President Petro Poroshenko has entrusted the mission of creating a new cabinet to his close associate, Volodymyr Hroysman, believed to be a reformer. However, the next prime minister will be held hostage by the president’s strategy of half-hearted reform and temporary compromise...
