Journalists & rights activists warn against continuing “real tradition of impunity” a year after Pavel Sheremet’s murder
It is exactly one year since Pavel Sheremet, the renowned Belarusian journalist and former prisoner of conscience was killed by a car bomb in Kyiv. Friends and fellow journalists are holding a gathering to mark a Year without Pavel at the time he was killed a year ago, after which they will march to the President’s Administration, the SBU...
Crimean Tatar jailed for Facebook reposts critical of Russian occupation of Crimea
A court in Russian-occupied Crimea has sentenced Emil Minasov to one year and three months’ imprisonment for supposed ‘incitement to enmity’ on Facebook. This appears to be how the FSB – and judge Anna Klimova – chose to view posts or reposts critical of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Two Ukrainians get 5-year prison sentences for ‘Russian world’ anti-Ukraine social network groups
The Donetsk Regional Court of Appeal has upheld five-year sentences passed on two young men for creating several social network groups with a pronounced anti-Ukrainian, pro-militant position. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Is Transatlantic Governance Ready to Face European Citizens?
Recent elections in the Netherlands and France spread a sigh of relief across the continent, but the structural reasons for discontent among many European citizens should not be overlooked. A growing number of studies and opinion polls are coming to this same conclusion: disaffection with the EU, the establishment, and governing elites is here to...
Night at the Metro, Game-of-Thrones Style
The seventh season of the internationally popular television series premiered in a Moscow metro station. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Pro-Russian Rebel Leader in E. Ukraine Unveils Plan for New State
July 18, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
When Revisiting History is a Threat
Why do the Belarusian authorities oppose the revision of the Great Patriotic War myth? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine in NATO? America Should Reject a Bad Idea That Only Grows Worse with Age
Doug Bandow The government of Ukraine reaffirmed its desire to join NATO. The alliance said the door is open for Kiev. It’s an idea that only grows worse with age. Earlier this week Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko met NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Kiev, proclaiming that “Ukraine has clearly defined its political future and...
The Enduring Importance of Captive Nations Week
Every July since Congress unanimously passed the 1959 Captive Nations Resolution, the United States officially recognizes the struggle of those nations held captive by communist tyranny. Since the time that President Eisenhower published the first Captive Nations Week proclamation, most of the countries named in the original law have achieved...
TI Ukraine opposes creation of anti-corruption chambers instead of independent anti-corruption court
Transparency International Ukraine strongly opposes the creation of anti-corruption chambers under existing courts. Ukraine is in need of an independent anti-corruption court. The chapter of the global network is certain that there are no good alternatives to the High Anti-Corruption Court and the system of independent anti- corruption courts in...
