10 Things You Should Not Do in Belarus
In Europe’s “last dictatorship,” you should definitely be careful what you photograph and joke about. From European Radio for Belarus (ERB). …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine Quarterly Digest: #1 (January – March, 2017)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS PULSE INTERNAL PULSE #PROGRESS DONBAS PULSE …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Ukraine Rocked by Ransomware Attack
Officials also suggest Russia was behind yesterday’s death of a military intelligence officer in Kyiv. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The new antiquity versus the new Middle Ages
Politics The “new Middle Ages” has been a common term for referring to Russia’s present and near future since the publication of Day of the Oprichnik in 2006. The publication of Telluria in 2013 and the 2014 release of “Hard to be a God”, a dystopian film directed by Aleksei German, brought this medieval analogy to wider attention. A plot...
Cyber Attack Hits Oil Giant and Banks in Russia and Ukraine
June 27, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Running in Place
Ukrainian officials haven’t stopped agitating for the release of political prisoners in Russia, but in an interview, the cousin of jailed film director Oleg Sentsov says she’s heard things are at a dead end. From Hromadske. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Introducing a new TEPSA member, The Razumkov Centre
On the occasion of the TEPSA Pre-Precidency Conference that took place in Tallinn, Estonia on June 15, 2017, the TEPSA General Assembly voted unanimously in favor of the Razumkov Centre (Kiev, Ukraine) to become a full TEPSA member. The Razumkov Centre is a non-governmental think tank founded in 1994. It carries out research on public policy in...
Will Europe’s defense momentum lead to anything?
Photo Credit: Studio 37 / Shutterstock.com, Wlad74 / Shutterstock.com Summary According to Federica Mogherini, more has happened in ten months than in ten years for European defense. The cultural change in Brussels is indeed undeniable, as several concrete instruments have been recently delivered to create an incentive for member states to...
Ukrainians Travel Visa Free
New visa-free arrangements for Ukrainians traveling to the EU will have several practical and, more importantly, symbolic impacts. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
