Ukraine

Seminar on national resilience in Kyiv and report presentation “Resilient Ukraine”

In the framework of a large-scale development cooperation project, focused on introducing Estonian experience to representatives of security sector in eastern Ukraine, ICDS-led team conducted a comprehensive research aimed at delivering realistic policy recommendations on acknowledging civil society’s role in strengthening national resilience and security in Ukraine and enhancing co-operation between the state authorities and civil society in this field.

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La Razon interview with Piret Pernik

La Razon, a daily newspaper based in Madrid published on 28 March 2018 an article and an interview with Piret Pernik, a Research Fellow at ICDS, about Russia’s cyber and information operations against Ukraine and other countries.

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Societal Resilience in Eastern Ukraine: Building Solid Foundations for a Nation

The long-awaited and much-debated official adoption of the so-called Donbas De-Occupation Law by Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada provoked a heated discussion in Ukrainian society over the last three months on whether this legal act is merely a symbolic (if communicatively important) gesture to label Russia as a state aggressor, or whether it reflects a serious intention to create a strong foundation for the region’s re-integration.

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“Private sector” of the Russian Invasion

Within the last four years, i.e. the period of direct aggression of Russia against Ukraine, the Russian private military companies (PMCs) have become an inseparable military attribute of the Kremlin’s policy aimed at pursuing its own agenda abroad, using the methods that are nowadays commonly regarded as hybrid.

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Public seminar “De-occupation of Crimea: When and How?”

ICDS hosted a public seminar the main aims of which were to stress the importance of maintaining the Crimean occupation issue high on the international political agenda as well as in global media focus and to emphasise the need for more vigorously counteracting Russia’s persistent efforts to manipulate public narratives and legitimise this occupation.

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Taking Stock of Estonian Foreign and Security Policy in 2017

On Friday, December 15th, ICDS hosted a public discussion with Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Sven Mikser, and Minister of Defence, Mr. Jüri Luik, entitled “Taking Stock of Estonian Foreign and Security Policy in 2017.” ICDS Director, Sven Sakkov offered introductory remarks and the event was moderated by ICDS Research Fellow, Eerik Marmei.

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