Navalny Said to Be Under Medical Care in Spain
Members of a shadowy extremist group accused of attacking the dissident say they helped pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Hungarian Disabled Home to Close Over Appalling Conditions
Thousands of children and disabled adults remain locked up in understaffed, badly funded facilities. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Anti-Russia Inquisition Intensifies
Ted Galen Carpenter For a brief period in April, it appeared that the campaign that Democrats and neo-conservative Republicans were waging for a comprehensive investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election had peaked and was beginning to ebb. The Trump...
Russia refuses to obey UN Court order to stop persecution of Crimean Tatar Mejlis
Russia is both distorting the substance of the recent International Court of Justice judgement on occupied Crimea, and refusing to stop its extraordinary criminalization of the Mejlis, or self-governing body of the Crimean Tatar people. It is also simply ignoring the order regarding education in Ukrainian …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Ukraine: Prison Sentence for Academic in Separatist Region
(Kyiv) – A military tribunal in the separatist-held area of Ukraine’s Donetsk region convicted a professor with pro-Ukrainian views on trumped-up charges of illegal weapons possession on May 3, 2017, Human Rights Watch said today. The court sentenced the academic, Ihor Kozlovsky, to 32 months in prison. The de facto authorities of the...
Armed searches & jail for deleted reposts to silence protest in Russian-occupied Crimea
Tofik Abdulgaziev and his family were subjected to an armed search on Thursday, almost certainly as a warning to stop reporting cases of repression. In the meantime, the jailing of civic activist Remzi Bekirov, purportedly for a 7-year-old post on a long-deleted VKontakte page, has been upheld …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Treason Trial Against Yanukovych Begins in Ukraine
May 4, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
New York Art Patron Absent as Her Trial Begins in Moscow
Prosecutors say Janna Bullock and her ex-husband led a gang that embezzled billions of rubles from municipalities near Moscow. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Sustainable Development? Human and Institutional Capital in the Eastern Partnership Countries and Russia
Invitation Only Research Event 31 May 2017 – 09:30 to 16:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London …read more Source: Chatham...
What is the Liberal International Order?
Photo credit: Drop of Light / Shutterstock.com In the last five years or so, U.S. and European foreign policy think tanks have become increasingly preoccupied with threats to the set of norms, rules, and institutions known as the liberal international order, especially from “revisionist” rising powers and above all authoritarian powers like China...
