Why block VKontakte when it provides evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine?
President Poroshenko’s Decree blocking VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, and other Russian-based social media, TV channels, etc. provoked a torrent of angry accusations of censorship from some and the question why it had taken so long from others …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
No penalty against Ukrainian judge who ordered Berkut to disperse Maidan
The High Council of Justice has decided that there are no grounds for dismissing Yevhen Ablov, the Kyiv judge who ordered Berkut riot police to forcibly disperse Euromaidan activists in December 2013. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
The Two Parts of Ukraine’s Donbas
A new survey reveals that people living through the war in eastern Ukraine are not characterized by clear-cut ethnic or political identities. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The Future of the Venezuelan Crisis
By Allison Fedirka In our 2017 forecast, we predicted that Venezuela’s government would not survive the year. Throughout 2016, the administration of President Nicolas Maduro faced political gridlock and nationwide protests that seemed to be reaching a critical point, and the problem has not subsided. For more than a month now, large-scale...
The Two Parts of Ukraine’s Donbas
A new survey reveals that people living through the war in eastern Ukraine are not characterized by clear-cut ethnic or political identities. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
If Russian in Trump national security scandal is UN’s new anti-terror chief – just how murky can things get?
The UN building … but what’s really going on inside? ShutterstockAs if there wasn’t enough controversy surrounding Sergey Kislyak. The Russian ambassador to the US at the centre of the Trump national security storm appears likely to become the United Nations head of counter-terrorism, probably at Under Secretary-General level....
Russian in Trump national security scandal to be UN’s new anti-terror chief – just how murky can things get?
The UN building … but what’s really going on inside? ShutterstockAs if there wasn’t enough controversy surrounding Sergey Kislyak. The Russian ambassador to the US at the centre of the Trump national security storm is set to become the United Nations head of counter-terrorism, probably at Under Secretary-General level. The irony...
Kleptocracy Daily: May 16, 2017
News Investigators looking into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia will be able to pursue leads by tapping into a huge database of suspicious financial transactions maintained by FinCEN. President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko to Block Russian Social Networks
May 16, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Even Remembrance of the Crimean Tatar Deportation prohibited in Russian-occupied Crimea
Crimean Tatars are for the fourth time facing bans and likely arrests on the 73rd anniversary of the Deportation in 1944 of the entire Crimean Tatar people from their homeland …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
