‘Alternative for Germany’ and the Kremlin: A marriage of convenience?
Russia / Europe ‘Alternative for Germany’ (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD), a political party founded by Eurosceptics in 2013, which emerged in its current political shape in 2015, has became a notable political force in German politics within a short space of time. Representatives of AfD have already been elected to 13 of the 16...
ETLA forecast: Finland’s GDP will grow by 2.9 per cent in 2017
FINNISH ECONOMY 2017/2 Finland’s economic environment is favourable: economic growth in the euro area and China has strengthened and growth in the US continues at a moderate pace. The greatest risks are related to financial markets, international politics and trade liberalization. Finland’s GDP will grow by 2.9 per cent in 2017....
A View From Ukraine’s Edge
Bessarabia is a remote multiethnic region in the southwestern corner of Ukraine. But with its peculiarities, it can be considered as a more extreme version of Ukraine as a whole. …read more Source: Carnegie...
Dramatic Acquittals in Trial over Odesa 2 May 2014 Riots
There were violent scenes in Odesa on Monday evening following the sensational acquittal of 20 pro-Russian activists who had been charged over the fatal disturbances in Odesa on May 2, 2014. The outrage from some quarters, and the prosecutor’s stated intention to appeal the ruling cannot hide the brutal truth that a guilty verdict, given...
Court in occupied Crimea demands 3-year suspended sentence for journalist over criticism of Russia’s annexation
The prosecution in Russian-occupied Crimea has demanded a three-year suspended sentence for Mykola Semena, the 67-year-old journalist on trial for expressing his opinion – and the position of international treaties which Russia remains a party to. De facto prosecutor Svetlana Petrovna Budinskaya also proposed to ban Semena from engaging in...
Human rights in the territory controlled by the Government of Ukraine along the delimitation line and in so-called Luhansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic (2017)
Human rights in the territory controlled by the Government of Ukraine along the delimitation line human rights on so-called Luhansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic, main problems in investigation of grave HR violation …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Investigative News Startups Talk Membership Models
Many people don’t trust media giants. That’s what we’ve been hearing in the past two months of interviews with a wide variety of European publishers with membership models. These upstart publishers represent different newsroom and audience sizes, focus areas and geographies. Yet they’re hearing similar complaints around...
Russia’s Peacekeeping Proposal in Ukraine Is a Sham
Russia has introduced a United Nations draft resolution for peacekeepers in Ukraine amid acclaim by German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel and the chairman of the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia bans Crimean Tatar Football Match in Occupied Crimea, yet allowed to host 2018 World Cup
Police controlled by the country which is hosting the World Football Cup in 2018 banned young Crimean Tatars from holding a football match on September 16, and forced them to remove the Crimean Tatar flag. The match which had already begun was not allowed to continue, and three people were taken aside for ‘questioning’, including the...
Ukraine: Woman Detained, Held Incommunicado, Tortured
(Berlin) – Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) arbitrarily detained a Ukrainian woman, held her incommunicado, and tortured her, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities charged the woman, Daria Mastikasheva, with treason, and a court in Dnipro has ordered her pretrial detention pending investigation. Mastikasheva, 29, a Ukrainian...
