August 8th, 2017
CHINA China Willing To “Pay A Price” For Stronger North Korea Sanctions James Griffiths and Serenitie Wang, CNN China is willing to take the economic hit of greater sanctions on North Korea, a top official said Monday, as Washington continues to pressure Beijing on the issue. “Given China’s traditional economic ties with North Korea, China...
Ukraine Requires Anticorruption Garbage Collectors to Submit Income Declarations
Ukraine Requires Anticorruption Garbage Collectors to Submit Income DeclarationsAugust 8, 2017Onerous new regulations threaten to cripple Ukraine’s civil society sector, particularly affecting groups engaged in the fight against corruption. …read more Source: Freedom...
America’s Ukraine Hypocrisy
Ted Galen Carpenter There is an abundance of outrage in the United States about Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Multiple investigations are taking place, and Moscow’s conduct was a major justification for the sanctions legislation that Congress just passed. Some furious political figures and members of the...
Pussy Riot Members Detained for demanding that Russia #FreeSentsov
Two members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot are facing administrative prosecution for a totally peaceful protest calling for the release of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov whom Russia arrested shortly after its invasion and annexation of Crimea. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia demands 8-year sentence for Crimean Tatar leader Akhtem Chiygoz
The de facto prosecutor in Russian-occupied Crimea has demanded an 8-year sentence for Crimean Tatar leader Akhtem Chiygoz in a ‘trial’ that breaches even Russian law and which has openly targeted only Crimean Tatars. This has been recognized as a political trial from the outset, and Russia is clearly hoping to get Chiygoz convicted during...
Crimea Marathon of Solidarity as Response to Mounting Repression
Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians have begun enthusiastically collecting ten rouble coins in the latest response to new methods of repression in Russian-occupied Crimea. The coins are a symbol of solidarity and a means of sharing the financial burden of the fines increasingly imposed for demonstrating support for political prisoners …read...
Big Fines in Store for Romanian Anti-Vaxxers
Resistance to vaccination linked to continuing measles outbreak in Eastern Europe and beyond. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
One Way Russia Can Retaliate Against US Sanctions
Originally produced on July 31, 2017 for Mauldin Economics, LLC By George Friedman, Xander Snyder and Ekaterina Zolotova The US Congress has passed new sanctions targeting Russia’s energy companies. Among the other notable aspects of the sanctions is that they take some authority away from the US president (who used to be able to implement...
Vice President Pence Would Fight Russia over Montenegro, Georgia, Kosovo: Where Is President Trump?
Doug Bandow President Donald Trump promised a different kind of administration. But many of those around him remain dedicated to the status quo. Even after President Trump spoke for the forgotten Americans who were tired of subsidizing European states which refused to spend more on defense, Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Eastern Europe...
Ukraine helps Russia imprison an opposition activist for criticizing Putin
There are very many unanswered questions as to how Russian opposition activist Vladimir Yegorov came to be taken by Ukrainian officials to the border and told he had been refused asylum in Ukraine. The questions need answers since Yegorov has now been remanded in custody back in Russia, almost certainly for his criticism of Russian President...
