When Neutrality Isn’t an Option
Originally produced on Aug. 7, 2017 for Mauldin Economics, LLC By George Friedman The new US sanctions against Russia overwhelmingly passed Congress. But in parts of Europe, they are far less popular. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel last week called them “more than problematic.” In diplomatese, that means the Germans oppose them. The...
US Power: A Finite Resource
By Jacob L. Shapiro North Korea, China, Russia and Venezuela are all countries that pose very real but different kinds of problems for the United States. These countries have made headlines in the U.S. in recent days, and we will unpack them each separately. Collectively, they indicate that the U.S. has spread itself thin and has been unable to...
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...
