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Tisdag, 16. November 2010     0 comment(s)
Sinikukka Saari
forskare - forskningsprogrammet EU:s östra grannskap och Ryssland

Kaikki itäiset kansalaisyhteiskunnat – yhtykää!

EU:n itäisen kumppanuuden kansalaisyhteiskuntafoorumi tuo yli kaksisataa järjestöaktiivia Berliiniin tämän viikon lopulla. Onko foorumi vain EU:n sponsoroima leirikoulutyyppien tapahtuma vai voisiko foorumilla olla ihan oikeasti jotain merkitystä?

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Måndag, 18. Oktober 2010     0 comment(s)
Arkady Moshes
programdirektör – forskningsprogrammet EU:s östra grannskap och Ryssland

Losing Russia, part II: losing Ukraine

Analysts no longer hide their concerns about the future of Ukraine’s democracy. Within several months that have passed since Viktor Yanukovich’s election as Ukraine’s president there were enough warnings telling that the earlier achieved standards will not necessarily be preserved.

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Måndag, 20. September 2010     2 comment(s)
Sinikukka Saari
forskare - forskningsprogrammet EU:s östra grannskap och Ryssland

Rikos ja rangaistus - eli kuka jallittaa ja ketä?

Lakia sovelletaan Venäjällä poliittisten tarpeiden mukaan. Ulkomaiset toimijat saattavat tulla vedetyksi mukaan oikeuden kaapuun pukeutuneeseen poliittiseen peliin tajuamatta itse mistä oikeasti on kysymys.

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Onsdag, 26. Maj 2010     0 comment(s)
Arkady Moshes
programdirektör – forskningsprogrammet EU:s östra grannskap och Ryssland

Russia-Ukraine: business is business, and what this actually means

Russian-Ukrainian relations are now back to normal. That means that the sides disagree.

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Fredag, 30. April 2010     0 comment(s)
Igor Torbakov
specialforskare

Crafting a common history for post-Soviet Eurasia?

The perennial urge to use historical scholarship, among other things, as a kind of glue for what has now come to be known as post-Soviet Eurasia leads to a larger question: Is “Eurasia” merely a handy way of describing the “post-Soviet space”? Or does it have a larger and deeper meaning somehow being intimately connected with the notion of “Russia” and with what some tend to call the “Russian civilization” or the “Russian world”?

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Tisdag, 2. Mars 2010     0 comment(s)
Arkady Moshes
programdirektör – forskningsprogrammet EU:s östra grannskap och Ryssland

Belarus: Avenue of Independence

For a few years already the main street of Minsk has been called the Avenue of Independence. Since this is the major artery linking the city with its international airport and, most importantly, the Moscow highway, renaming of the street was an unmistakable signal to the external world about Belarus’s priority – to be viewed as a truly independent country, definitely friendly towards Russia, but no less definitely separate from it.

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Måndag, 1. Mars 2010     0 comment(s)
Sinikukka Saari
forskare - forskningsprogrammet EU:s östra grannskap och Ryssland

What explains Russia's hostility towards the EU's Eastern Partnership?

Russia has expressed mistrust of the Eastern Partnership from the outset. No matter how patiently the EU explains that the EaP is not directed against Russia, it remains unlikely that Russia will be convinced.

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Måndag, 1. Februari 2010     0 comment(s)
Maija Salonen
koordinator

Ukrainalaiset äänestävät presidentistä

Ukrainan presidentinvaalien toinen kierros käydään tämän viikon sunnuntaina. Ensimmäinen kierros sujui rauhallisesti, mutta ristiriitaisissa tunnelmissa.

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