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...
Three Questions with Bruce Jones
The Marshall Plan was conceived and implemented 70 years ago. Since then, many aid and development initiatives and institutions of greater scale have been created. Why does the Marshall Plan still matter after 70 years? First of all, I challenge the premise of greater scale. If you look at the percentage of the federal budget that the United...
An American’s Death in Ukraine Is a Wake-Up Call for Russia and the West
Unless the United States and its allies increase diplomatic pressure on Moscow, the violence in Ukraine will continue to kill innocent people. …read more Source: Open Society...
Navalny Accuses Russian Government of Green Dye Attack
Protesters throughout the country took to the streets this weekend, with letters asking Putin not to run for a fourth term. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Fake Newness of Fake News
World faked out by phenomenon known oh so well in Eastern Europe! …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Crimea: ‘Not Our Home Anymore’
“This used to be our home but it’s not anymore.” A Simferopol resident, who asked not to be identified for safety reasons, told us this when we spoke with her in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Russia has occupied since February 2014. After three years, she no longer feels at home in the place where she grew up. Since occupying Crimea...
