by Deepen Bista , Marie Curie Fellow at Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw With the adaptation of the radical reforms policy by the government of Ukraine after the end of Euromaidan in 2014 and with the technical and financial support by the international communities like European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund…
by Elena Zhirukhina, Marie Curie Fellow at the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. Intensively growing number of researchers use disaggregated data on a variety of conflict types to study their dynamic. N-large datasets present a tremendous opportunity to closely look on how violence evolves. Disaggregated datasets, while providing details, contain certain aspects…
by Ann Tsurtsumia-Zurabashvili, PhD candidate at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution And Reconstruction, Dublin City University Experts have long argued that the efforts of the Russian Federation to secure international recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have largely declined after 2012 and nearly disappeared after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Such circumstances did not appear to…
by Oleksandra Seliverstova, Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Political Science and Governance at Tallinn University Interview originally published in Research Estonia Dilemmas caused by multicultural society are not anything new, but some events place the role of ethnic minorities into a new context. For example, the role of Russian ethnic minorities in former…
by Selbi Hanova, Marie Curie Fellow at the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. Studying the change in development assistance is largely quantitative undertaking that requires relevant methodologies and skilled researchers that could dissect the necessary trends to showcase the impact. Largely, Post-Soviet States remain the recipients of donor funding in various areas that…
by Ashik KC, Marie Curie Fellow at Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw at the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw On 14th April 2017, Igor Dodon, the president of Moldova announced on Facebook that presidents of the five Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) member states had decided to grant Moldova an observer status…
by Saipira Furstenberg , PhD Candidate at the Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen With the suspension of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, along with Azerbaijan’s withdrawal, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) finds itself at a critical juncture. In March, EITI rapped Azerbaijan over the government’s failure to fully implement “corrective actions related to civil society space,”…
by Chiara Loda, PhD candidate at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution And Reconstruction, Dublin City University On 2 April 2017, a parliamentary election took place in Armenia. This was a particularly remarkable event in the political life of the country, as it was the first national vote after the approval of the constitutional reform, in December 2015 and…
by Eglė Kesylytė-Alliks, PhD candidate at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo. On the 11 March 2017 Lithuania will be counting 27 years since the declaration of its independence from the Soviet Union. This period produced a generation of citizens who were socialized within the newly re-established state. How then does this generation relate to…
by Giorgio Comai, PhD candidate at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution And Reconstruction, Dublin City University Presidential elections in Transnistria, a de facto independent state within the internationally recognised borders of Moldova, are scheduled for 11 December 2016. Out of a total of seven registered candidates, the two main contenders for the position are the…
