On August 26, 2015, the Russian International Affairs Council held a roundtable on intermediate effects of the 1st Minsk Agreement.
The event was opened by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and attended by authors of RIAC working paper The Ukraine Challenge for Russia – Assistant Professor of Post-Soviet Space Chair at Russian State University for Humanities Alexander Gushchin, Assistant Professor of Foreign Regions and Foreign Policy Studies at Russian State University for Humanities ...
... diplomatic relations with Russia, and there are regular flights between Kiev and Moscow. Georgia has allowed the same kind of relations to continue.
As for the situation in Ukraine, Georgia unequivocally supports the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine and endeavours to provide the necessary aid to our close neighbours.
Has the Ukrainian crisis altered the perception of the situation in South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia?
Some people have changed their opinion, some have adopted even stronger stances. On the whole, the dramatic events that have unfolded in Ukraine are reminiscent ...
... deep and comprehensive free trade area with Moldova, with these effective preferences expiring on January 1, 2016.
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As for Moldova, it is trying to exploit the situation in order to impose regulative control over Transnistrian enterprises.
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The Ukrainian crisis is making the life of Tiraspol much harder. Since consumer demand in Ukraine and Russia is falling, Transnistrian companies are losing their eastern markets. Moreover, in spring 2015, Kiev strengthened its blockade of Transnistrian exports by restricting Ukrainian supplies and the banning delivery of excised items to the ...
Working paper 24/2015
The events in Ukraine in 2013-2014 did not reveal any new, deep-rooted contradictions between Kiev and Moscow; they had existed long before, albeit not so acutely.
They have, however, triggered the fiercest confrontation between the two biggest countries in the post-Soviet ...
On July 2, 2015, the Russian International Affairs Council held roundtable "Prospects for Russia-Ukraine Relations" featuring presentation of RIAC's working paper "
Ukrainian Challenge for Russia
".
Opening the event, RIAC Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov stressed the significance of an expert analysis for the Ukraine crisis ...
Four months after the Minsk II accords, the Ukraine crisis continues to simmer, with occasional violent eruptions. The ceasefire in Donbass has not prevented some 1,000 people from losing their lives since February, adding to the previous fatality count of more than 5,000. Some of the heavy weapons ...
The recent
article
by Amnesty International on summary killings in Eastern Ukraine (in particular the case of Ihor Branovytsky), committed by separatist forces, added factual and legal analysis to growing pile of data on woeful violations in Eastern Ukraine. The
non-international armed conflict
between the Ukrainian government ...
On April 9, 2015, Riga played host to the Second Meeting of the Young Expert’s Group on Resolving the Ukrainian Crisis and Ensuring Safety in the Euro-Atlantic Region. One of the topics discussed at the meeting was the role of civil society in establishing peace in Ukraine. The second session was dedicated to the issue of security in the Euro-Atlantic region as a whole.
The meeting was attended by young leaders from Ukraine, Europe, Russia and the United States, representatives of NGOs, research institutes, universities ...
... different sets of issues – in both short-term and long-term perspectives. Long-term issues concern Euro-Atlantic security, stable trade relations and democracy-building in the region. Short-term issues concern conflict-management in the Eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian territorial integrity and economic stabilization. The Ukrainian crisis and atmosphere of distrust between Russia and the West showed that Europe’s security architecture is dysfunctional and has to be partially revised. Government efforts and official diplomatic channels seem unable to overcome the ...
... regimes but of societies as well has been put at risk.
The Ukrainian Scenario for Central Asia: Reflections and Distortions
The Ukrainian crisis has revived regional elites’ dormant fears of internal destabilization and of possible outside intervention.... ... scenario in the region, which faces much more acute ethnic and elite conflicts. The official assessments of the destabilization in Ukraine were based on the historical memory of the turbulent 1990s and the political cataclysms in the mid-2000s. Analyzing the ...
