Malaysia, Australia Demand Justice for Citizens Killed Aboard MH17
Even Russia admits a Buk missile shot down the Malaysian airliner three years ago today, but its version of events is finding few takers. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The True Cost of Siemens Collaboration in Violating Crimea Sanctions
Germany’s Siemens Company was unperturbed that it was sending hugely expensive gas turbines to equip a non-existent Russian power plant. It only ‘noticed’ that the turbines had appeared in Russian-occupied Crimea after they were reported by the media and has since claimed, with minimum credibility, to be shocked and indignant...
Briton jailed on terrorism charges for fighting with Russia-backed militants in Ukraine
41-year-old Benjamin Stimson has been jailed for five years and four months under the UK Terrorism Act for taking part in the fighting in Donbas on the side of the Russian and Russian-backed militants …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine: Separatists ‘Disappeared’ Blogger
(Berlin) – Authorities in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) in eastern Ukraine have been unlawfully holding a blogger known for his pro-Ukraine views in unacknowledged detention for over six weeks, Human Rights Watch said today. DNR security officials forcibly disappeared Stanyslav Aseev on June 2, 2017, and in recent days...
Russia’s Yandex Takes Lion’s Share of Uber Deal
The search engine giant will control almost 60 percent of a new ride-sharing company with a six-country reach. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov faces 5-year sentence over FSB rigged translation
At least one of the mistakes in the faulty translation of Ilmi Umerov’s interview in Crimean Tatar was almost certainly a deliberate distortion to enable charges under Article 280.1, the 2014 addition to the criminal code increasingly used against critics of Russia’s occupation of Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
It’s a Dog’s Life
How did Moscow’s stray dogs learn to navigate the metro? From The Conversation. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Reading Room: A Difficult Neighbourhood
Russia’s aggression against Georgia and Ukraine as well as its reluctance to resolve the frozen conflicts in the region demonstrate that Eastern Europe is again a contested geopolitical sphere between Russia and the European Union (EU). President Putin has now gone further, unleashing a range of active measures against Western democracies...
Ukraine Still Pining for Ryanair
Kyiv would like the low-cost Irish airline to change its mind about operating in the country, amid suspicions that corruption hindered the deal. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Can Macron Reload the Minsk Process?
French President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to change Moscow’s position on the conflict in Ukraine should be accompanied by bolder support for Kyiv. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
