EU Propaganda Fighters Get Cash Infusion
Team says it has only scratched the surface of disinformation and fake news spread by Russian and European media. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Aid Groups Decry Migrant Push-Backs
‘Illegal’ refusal to allow entry to would-be asylum seekers said to be rising in the Balkans and Poland. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
American-Born Doctor Takes on Ukraine’s Health Care System
Ulana Suprun is a woman on a mission. The 53-year-old radiologist from New York who was appointed Ukraine’s Acting Minister of Health in July is determined to shake up Ukraine’s sclerotic health care system …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Journalist faces mandatory 5-year sentence for saying Russia should leave Crimea
Any lingering doubt that Russia would genuinely convict a journalist for expressing the same position as the United National and all democratic countries has now been quashed. On Jan 20, Mykola Semena and his lawyer were presented with an indictment that is both eerily Soviet and openly surreal …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Top Ukraine court posts for super-rich judges & defender of Yanukovych’s dictatorship laws?
Among the candidates for posts in the Supreme Court [SCU] are the former President of the Court who justified Viktor Yanukovych’s draconian ‘dictatorship’ laws and judges involved in politically motivated prosecutions. The CHESNO civic movement has sounded the alarm to ensure that purportedly fair competition does not re-establish the...
Russia braces itself for a Trump presidency
Russia braces itself for a Trump presidencyThe long-awaited inauguration of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president has been a source of constant debate within Russia’s expert community, which continues to point to his unpredictabilityThe long-awaited inauguration of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president has been a source of constant...
Cheers, Caveats Greet Birth of Ukraine’s ‘Three-Parent Baby’
Ethics, safety concerns hang over the controversial treatment, so far approved by medical regulators only in the UK. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Facebook Snafu Briefly Silences Russia’s RT
The huge state-funded international broadcaster also loses access to Twitter-based data mining service. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Moldovan Opposition Seethes Over President’s Russia Trip
Igor Dodon drops welcome words into his Russian counterpart Putin’s ear. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Australia-NATO Cooperation and Trump
The closing months of 2016 provided ample fodder for sceptics of the future of NATO, as well as critics of the Australian relationship with the Atlantic alliance. The questions about NATO come at a time of unstable global security, amid ongoing tensions with Russia and the uncertainty of the Trump presidency. What does this mean for Australian...
