Ukraine: A warm room and hot tea at a contentious checkpoint
Article | The line of contact between Lugansk in Ukraine and Stanytsia Luhanska is a vital road of commerce. Red Cross volunteers help visitors who cross the checkpoint by providing health care, medical assistance and food. …read more Source: International Committee of the Red...
A Permanent State of Sanctions?
Sanctions seem to have become a permanent element in relations between the EU and Russia. They have contributed to curbing the war in Donbas but are not capable of forcing Russia to return Crimea to Ukraine and implement the Minsk agreements. In 2017, consensus within the EU on sanctions against Russia is more fragile than it has been previously....
Moldova Moves Closer to Russia-Led Trade Bloc: President
Not so fast, rejoins the prime minister, who recently inked a new agreement with the EU. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine Reform Monitor: April 2017
In the past year, Ukraine’s reform progress slowed as the president condolidated power and key decentralization reforms met opposition in the parliament. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Dissecting a Case of Baltic Fake News
A Re:Baltica investigation has traced the latest propaganda mouthpiece to colorful, Kremlin-funded characters. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Putin Joins the Climate Change Deniers
Were his comments just off-the-cuff remarks, or a reflection of a deeper policy change? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
NATO’s Real Alliance Dilemma
Ted Galen Carpenter NATO’s European members, especially the newest members in eastern Europe, incessantly fret about the threat that Vladimir Putin’s Russia poses to their countries and the continent. Their worries were noticeable even before the eruption of the Ukraine crisis in 2013 and 2014. Moscow’s 2008 military...
Germany, Russia, Ukraine, France Discuss Ukraine Peace Deal
April 18, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Supreme Court Candidate Exposed for Sentencing Innocent Man to Life Imprisonment
It is, of course, for the court to determine a man’s innocence, however in the case of life prisoner Volodymyr Panasenko, nobody has ever believed he is guilty. Now, after Panasenko has been in prison for over 10 years, his trial has proven a career nemesis for one of the judges who sentenced him. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Hague Court To Issue Ruling On Ukraine Case Against Russia
April 17, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
