The Russian Revolution is not over
Politics Exactly one hundred years ago, soldiers and citizens marched through the streets of Petrograd and shouted “down with autocracy!” Women protesting the long bread queues that made their lives miserable while the aristocrats feasted in their palaces during Russia’s third year of war joined them. As news from the front was dire, public...
LGBT Activists Freed After Being Held in Eastern Ukraine
Last week, I heard news I feared might never come: two Russian activists detained in eastern Ukraine had been freed, unharmed. Seroe Fioletovoe (Grey Violet), a Russian transgender person, and Victoria Miroshnichenko arrived in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) on January 31 and were immediately detained by DNR security...
Moldovan Homecoming
After years of living and working abroad, can homeward-bound Moldovans make their entrepreneurial dreams come true? From Ziarul de Garda. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine Backs More Sanctions Against Russia in Passport Spat
February 22, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Why Do ‘Progressives’ Like War?
Liberals are supposed to be antiwar, right? I went to college in the 1960s, when students nationwide were rising up in opposition to the Vietnam War. I was a Young Republican back then and supported the war through sheer ignorance and dislike of the sanctimoniousness of the protesters, some of whom were surely making their way to Canada to live...
Vested Interests in Ukraine and Moldova
Invitation OnlyResearch EventVested Interests in Ukraine and Moldova14 Mar 2017 – 14:00 to 15:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, LondonRussia and Eurasia Programme, Ukraine ForumParticipantsKateryna Boguslavska, Academy Robert Bosch Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham HouseDownload ResultsOverviewVested...
A Global Argument About the Future
Medieval v Modern ♠ Medieval Political Absolutism v Modern Democratic and Checked Distribution of Power ♠ Medieval Dissimulation v Modern Integrity ♠ President Putin’s feudal Moscow has set the new low standard for the obliteration of human conscience, empathy, and reason. His state has defied the open democracies of the west by perverting...
The future of the European security order
In recent years numerous new threats have emerged in Europe and across its neighborhood. Several of these represent a resurgence of traditional security threats—from Russia’s annexation of Crimea and destabilization of Western Ukraine, to the rise of Islamic extremism and turmoil in the Middle East, and the terrorism it has bred. Other...
Trump’s Russian Vanishing Act
The Kremlin denies ordering Russian TV to slash coverage of the U.S. leader. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Churkin’s promise: why the solution to the MH17 case may lie with a forgotten legal precedent from 1905
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, has died of a heart attack. Churkin was famous for clashing with his US counterpart Samantha Power over Russia’s bombing of Aleppo, and when Russia vetoed a a United Nations Security Council resolution to establish a war crimes tribunal to investigate the downing of flight...
