Prosecutor ‘loses’ critical evidence regarding Khmelnytsky Maidan killings
Three and a half years after shots fired from inside the Khmelnytsky SBU [Security Service] office at Maidan activists killed 73-year-old Ludmila Sheremet and seriously injured others, the investigation appears to have been deliberately sabotaged …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Name those who help Russia jail a frail & elderly Crimean Tatar for defending political prisoners
This torture of Server Karametov, a frail and elderly man who suffers from Parkinson’s Disease and many other serious illnesses elicited outrage and revulsion far beyond Crimea, yet ‘judge’ Natalya Anatolyevna Terentyeva claimed there were no grounds for overturning the jail sentence …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Russian Journalist Found Guilty of Extremism
Prosecutors said Aleksandr Sokolov and three other accused ex-People’s Will Army members wanted to bring down the government. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
A New Low for Russian Authorities in Crimea
Expand Server Karametov, 76 year old Crimean Tatar, after his arbitrary arrest in August 2017. © 2017 Private Just when you think the situation cannot get any worse for Crimean Tatars in Crimea, it does. Yesterday, a court in Simferopol sentenced Server Karametov, a 76-year old Crimean Tatar, to 10 days in jail for …read more Source: Human...
The ICRC in Ukraine: Facts and figures, January – June 2017
Article | An overview of ICRC’s work from January to June 2017 in Eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: International Committee of the Red...
Watch List: Aug. 10, 2017
The items listed below represent potential emerging issues that our analysts are tracking. These can be long term or short term, but will be updated daily. If an item on our Watch List becomes critical, we will email you a full analysis explaining its significance. Each Saturday, we will follow up our daily Watch List for each week with our...
New armed search in Crimea ends with Crimean Tatar Imam hospitalized
Russia has marked International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples with both continuing and new repression against Crimean Tatars. These included an armed search of the home which Umer Emiramzaev shares with his wife and three small children, and his parents and brothers. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Moldovan Students Set to Learn More About the Holocaust
Critics say that teaching on the subject has been far too little, partly because of the sensitivity of discussing the atrocities committed by the Romanian fascist state. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Moral Combat in International Politics – Part 1
This paper was written for the ‘V4 for Europe — Developing positive scenarios for Europe’s future’ workshop, organised by the Hungarian Europe Society in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Budapest on 16 May 2017. “The positions of the opposing forces were clearly outlined in 2016. Nations rose up against the globalists,...
Russian Hackers Can’t Beat German Democracy
Less than two months remain before Germans go to the polls in a general election. On the surface, this has been as regular an election season as can be: Parties have assembled their programs and teams, candidates have been out campaigning, and politics have mostly revolved around the classic issues: taxes, social benefits, public investment. Yet...
