FTAC: Reprise: How ISIL Serves Moscow, Damascus, and Tehran
Again: Assad (w/ Putin and Khamenei looking on) incubated ISIL as a tool with several interesting functions: –A “jihadi” trap that has drawn thousands of fighters to itself, including from Chechnya, to serve as a “Kill Zone” for the type. Not a bad idea, eh? –However: the same ploy turns out for bribing the west — “Assad OR The Terrorists” in...
Russian media twist Bellingcat study to find Ukrainian Buk in Donbas before MH17
Incredibly, some Ukrainian websites have copy-pasted Russian propaganda media, including a website closely linked with the defence ministry, which deliberately distorted the findings of a new Bellingcat investigation …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
FTAC: Syria – “Expect ‘Mission Creep’”
Posted to YouTube by The New York Times, April 7, 2017. Comment: The public presentation of conflict may attempt to keep separate Syria, Ukraine, Russia, and Iran, but I don’t think the Kremlin (this is a good comment for Kremlin Watch) has an “Off” button in association with the defense of the autocratic feudal past that each dictatorship...
Tightening the RuNet Screws
Russian lawmakers want to ban kids from social media, require ‘real name’ registration. From Global Voices. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Fake News in the Service of Post-Truth Belarus
The fate of the Independent Institute for Socio-Economic and Political Studies emphasizes the need to protect the few remaining independent sources of information in the country. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Mixed Motives
Smeared by some as mere mercenaries, a band of Georgians fighting in Ukraine says neither money nor revenge underlies their drive to battle Russia on all fronts. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Europe’s Eastern Crisis: The Geopolitics of Asymmetry
In recent years a series of crises have erupted on the European Union’s eastern borders. In response, the EU has begun to map its own form of ‘liberal-redux geopolitics’ that combines various strategic logics. …read more Source: Carnegie...
Ukraine: New Law Targets Anti-Corruption Activists, Journalists
(Kyiv) – Recent legislative amendment requires activists and journalists reporting on government corruption to file public declarations of their personal assets, Human Rights Watch said today. The new requirement is vague and could be used to deter or punish investigative journalists and partners of anti-corruption nongovernmental groups for...
Kyrgyz-Born Man Suspected in St. Petersburg Metro Attack
Poverty and lack of opportunity continue to drive millions of Central Asians to Russia in search of work. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Battle for Ukraine: Leadership and Solidarity
Members 19 Apr 2017 – 09:30 to 10:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London Petro Poroshenko, President, UkraineChair: Dr Robin …read more Source: Chatham...
