Russia’s recent decision to grant official recognition of civil documents issued in the self-proclaimed people’s republics of Luhansk and Donetsk (LNR and DNR) starting from February 18, 2017 is incompatible with the Kremlin’s official denial of its direct military involvement and support of separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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The ICDS research fellows Kalev Stoicescu and Anna Bulakh discuss the Ukrainian future. The discussion was moderated by Erkki Bahovski.
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ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik participated in the Annual Conference on Russia, which was organised by the Baltic Defence College in Tartu on 15-17 February 2017.
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Every armed conflict, not just full-fledged war, has a multidimensional impact that echoes throughout society in many ways, some of which can be easily predicted, while others might not be immediately apparent either to participants or outside observers.
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ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik participated in the panel discussion “Social consequences of the war in Eastern Ukraine”, held in the framework of the X Europe-Ukraine Forum in Rzeszów, Poland on 27-28 January 2017.
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On January 23, 2016 Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko visited Estonia just two days after the inauguration of the 45th US president, Donald Trump – a known skeptic of NATO. While the timing of the two events was not related, the messages raised in Donald Trump’s inaugural address and his vision of the US foreign policy have alarmed Ukraine and its European allies.
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What makes eastern Ukraine more resilient than expected and/or calculated by the aggressor, which has succeeded in annexing the Crimea and occupying a territory of some four million people,1 but was stopped from penetrating further? A non-violent civilian defence was one of the key factors in deterring the aggression. A bigger question is what is required to build a sustainable societal and national resilience, where society can become an effective player in providing security. We have been seeking the answers to these questions, as the security threats in Ukraine are similar to those in Estonia.
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On December 12, 2016 experts of the International Centre for Defence and Security held a public discussion on the topic of national resilience in Ukraine with the students of the Tallinn Technical University (TTÜ) in the framework of the project “Resilient Ukraine: Civil society support for strengthening national resilience and security in Ukraine”.
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On December 7, 2016 International Centre for Defence and Security organized a panel discussion with on the occasion of the launch of the development cooperation project “Resilient Ukraine: civil society support for strengthening national resilience and security in Ukraine” in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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On December 6, 2016 ICDS organized a panel discussion with the distinguished speakers from Estonia and Ukraine at the Embassy of Estonia in Kyiv on the occasion of the launch of the development cooperation project “Resilient Ukraine: civil society support for strengthening national resilience and security in Ukraine”.
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