What about Pensions?
Economy Judging by his statements, President Vladimir Putin does not plan to retire any time soon. Yet many of his potential voters are worried about their own retirement prospects. Will their pensions be sizeable and reliable? At what age can Russians count on receiving them? During a televised call-in show held in mid-June, the president left...
Political Elite Renewal in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
Invitation Only Research Event 2 Oct 2017 – 14:00 to 15:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Cristina Gherasimov, Academy Robert Bosch Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House …read more Source: Chatham...
Reagan Documents Shed Light on US ‘Meddling’
“Secret” documents, recently declassified by the Reagan presidential library, reveal senior White House officials reengaging a former CIA “proprietary,” The Asia Foundation, in “political action,” an intelligence term of art for influencing the actions of foreign governments.The documents from 1982 came at a turning-point moment when the Reagan...
Kleptocracy Daily: September 15, 2017
Fighting back: We live in an era of authoritarian influence, writes Thorsten Benner. How should democracies respond? (Foreign Affairs) Anonymous companies: At a Helsinki Commission hearing on Russian disinformation yesterday, Molly McKew responded to Sen. Whitehouse’s question on U.S. shell firms: “The anonymous movement of money… into...
Six Major US Foreign Policy Failures of the Post-Cold War Era
In the 1990s, US officials, all of whom would go on to serve in the George W. Bush White House, authored two short, but deeply important policy documents that have subsequently been the guiding force behind every major US foreign policy decision taken since the year 2000 and particularly since 9/11.These documents include the Defense Planning...
New law on judicial reform could return Ukraine to secretive court proceedings
The changes, proposed by President Poroshenko, would be a serious step backwards away from the greater court transparency achieved since Maidan …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
The Victory at Stake in the Russian-Belarusian War Games
Despite all the reputational risks posed by its war games with Russia, Minsk is trying to reap diplomatic benefits from them. The Belarusian military can show Western observers that Minsk’s guarantees can be trusted. On the other hand, it can convince Moscow that the country isn’t “going down the Ukrainian route,” because it...
Crimean Tatar abducted after ‘search’ by masked men in Russian-occupied Crimea
Renat Paralamov has not been seen since masked men carried out what they claimed to be an ‘inspection’ of his home in Nizhnegorsk, in Russian-occupied Crimea. Even if, as seems likely, the Russian FSB is behind this latest seizure, there is every reason to consider that their treatment of the young Crimean Tatar should be viewed as an...
How Attorneys in Ukraine Can Use Health Law to Save Lives
In Ukraine and other parts of the world, attorneys who understand how laws governing justice and health intersect have a much better chance of protecting their clients—both literally and legally. …read more Source: Open Society...
Will Ukraine’s Parliament Accomplish Anything This Fall?
On September 5, a new political season began in Ukraine. Parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy has already branded parliament’s new plenary session “the autumn of reforms” by promising to deliver results on some of the most hot-button issues, including healthcare, pension, education, and judicial reforms …read more Source: Kharkiv...
