Ukraine

Karatnycky on the Ukraine Crisis and Religion

By Adrian Karatnycky

US News and World Report quotes Transatlantic Relations Program Nonresident Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky on how the conflict in Ukraine has created divisions among the clergy:

Wilson Testifies on Russian Aggression in Eastern Europe

Atlantic Council Executive Vice President Damon Wilson testified on Russian aggression in Eastern Europe before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation on March 4. Read Wilson’s full testimony here. Watch here.

The problem with Putin

By Nicholas Burns

AFTER RUSSIAN democratic leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down in Moscow last weekend, I posed this question at a Harvard Kennedy School conference: Is it possible that, in Vladimir Putin’s highly controlled dictatorship, no one in the Russian government had anything to do with Nemtsov’s murder? We may never know the answer. Possible culprits range […]

Who Will Collapse First?

By Global Business & Economics

Both the Ukrainian and Russian economies are suffering from recent events. While weak domestic institutions and a fight with insurgents in the country's East plague Ukraine, sanctions and low prices for oil and gas are hurting the Russian economy.

To Secure Europe’s Energy, Build a Market and Integrate Ukraine

By Basil Kalymon and Adonis Yatchew

Europe Should Press Moscow to Respect EU Rules—and Kyiv to End Gas Monopoly In recent days, Russia has once more threatened the security of Europe’s gas supplies by announcing that it will refuse to pipe gas through Ukraine and will require that a southern alternative be built through Turkey. The European gas supply system has […]

Herbst on the Ukrainian Pilot Held in a Moscow Prison

By John Herbst

The Philly Inquirer quotes Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Director John Herbst on the Ukrainian pilot being held in a Moscow prison and how the West should respond: