... countries were involved, but by today Belarus, Armenia and Azerbaijan have dropped out as they have signed onto the alternative plan that Russia has been proposing, i.e. the Eurasian market. So the countries that are most advanced in this programme are Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. And they are all basically promised the same things: to travel freely, visas, prior access to the European market, etc. These are the first benefits that are to be given to these countries once they reach the stage of development ...
Starting to heat up the internet (well, at least in Russia and Eastern Ukraine, while likely not even to be acknowledged in Western Europe) is a hacked telephone call last week between the former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council Nestor Shufrich and the former Prime Minister, recently-freed-from-prison,...
... Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, and Sergey Kulik, Director for International Development at the Institute for Contemporary Development to obtain their views on the future of Russian-American relations and U.S. strategy on the settlement of the Ukraine crisis.
Vladimir Baranovsky
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The situation might trigger a more profound dialogue, unknown before the Ukraine predicament
Sergey Kulik
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The list of sanctions provides the president with a lot of room for toughening his stance
Valery Garbuzov
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1. Recent tragic developments in Ukraine, which have brought East-West
relations to the edge of the Second Cold War could hardly be understood if
we look only three months back. Recent developments have effectively put
an end to the period of partnership and cooperation between the West ...
... discontent. It is ironic to consider that as events continue to unfold in Crimea the path that might hold the most hope for future peace and stability is the one that guarantees all sides being at least somewhat disappointed. Allow me to elaborate:
Why Ukraine should be disappointed: Crimea is done. As the famous Southern saying in America goes, ‘closing the barn door after the horses have left doesn’t do much good.’ Authorities in Kiev are understandably displeased. They will remain ...
RIAC experts' comments
The Ukraine crisis has ruptured the talks on Eastern Partnership. We have met Vladislav Belov (RAS Institute for European Studies), Nikolay Kaveshnikov (MGIMO-University), Olga Potyomkina (RAS Institute for European Studies), Kyrill Entin (Higher School of ...
Ukraine experts' comments
Representatives of Ukrainian expert community propose their assessment of events that currently take place in Ukraine, comment the perspectives of Ukrainian European integration and share their forecasts on further development ...
... of East Central Europe. The Crimean adventure, seasoned with a large amount of the usual disinformation, has occasioned a huge rise in Putin’s popularity — much like the last time in Georgia. He now has the recipe.
But the situation in Ukraine is bound to escalate. It will not come to a Cold War — but it looks like Putin is dead set on testing the limits.
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International experts' comments
The rapid development of situation in Ukraine led many G8 countries’ officials to show their concerns about the possibility of keeping the forum in a past format. We asked international experts to share their opinion on the consequences that situation in Ukraine may have on the G8 summit ...
... there is a Russian military presence in the peninsula and of course that might also have an impact on the referendum. However, having said that, I still believe that the overwhelming majority of Crimeans would prefer to stay with Russia than with the Ukraine. The sense of any Ukrainian identity within the peninsula is not strong developed and I would even venture to say that Russia is associated with a potential miracle from this viewpoint: those in Crimea are not different from those in Kiev. In ...
