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Kazakhstan
Democracy - Civil Society | Kazakhstan
Public Opinion in Kazakhstan
Report | April 1, 1997 | 139 pages
This report for the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) based on a country-wide opinion survey analyzes the public opinion environment in Kazakhstan regarding the views of the public on political and economic development, the performance of government, and civic and political organizations. The results of the survey show that the public is discontented with conditions in the country; fairly favorable toward a market economy and economic reform, and strongly attached to private property; supportive of democratic rights, but increasingly dissatisfied with the performance of government institutions; and favorable to multi-party democracy, but not to the existing parties.
Ukraine
Conflict Resolution & Stabilization | Ukraine
What Do Ukrainians Want?
By Craig Charney | Global Observatory | June 5, 2014
In the confused debate on Ukraine’s whirlwind of change since the fall of its pro-Russian president in February of 2014 and Russia’s subsequent takeover of Crimea, one key question has often been lost sight of: what do Ukrainians really want?
Conflict Resolution & Security | Ukraine
Putin Blinked
By Thomas L. Friedman | The New York Times | May 27, 2014 | 1 pages
There was a moment at the height of the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 when Soviet ships approached to within just a few miles of a U.S. naval blockade… The crisis in Ukraine was on course to become another case of brinkmanship. And it seems Putin just blinked.
