Love the Briber, Hate the Bribe
Universities have been capitalizing on the cognitive dissonance governing informal payments in Ukraine. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine
The situation in eastern Ukraine remained tense in 2016 despite the Minsk II Agreements forged a year earlier that called for a ceasefire and withdrawal of heavy weapons by all sides. Civilians in both Ukrainian and Russia-backed separatists’ detention were subjected to serious abuses. Abuses in conflict-affected areas remain largely...
Ukraine: Urgent Need for Accountability
(Kiev) – Detentions and abuses of civilians in the context of the conflict in eastern Ukraine went largely unaddressed during 2016, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2017. Ukrainian government and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine detained dozens of civilians for allegedly collaborating with the other side and held them...
American Troops ‘Roll Into Poland’ In Largest Deployment Since The Cold War
“American soldiers rolled into Poland on Thursday, fulfilling a dream Poles have had since the fall of communism in 1989 to have US troops on their soil as a deterrent against Russia.” That’s how the AP begins its report on the first deployment of US soldiers into the central European country, previewed here earlier in the week...
Russian Yogi Charged Under Extremism Law
Legislation has been used against Scientologists, Protestants, and other small religious groups. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The return of Kremlinology
Whatever the truth about who knew what and about whom, it is clear that the Kremlin sees itself locked in an ideological war. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Shapes of a Union: From Ever Closer Union to Flexible Differentiation after Brexit
Farewell, “ever closer union” The logic behind “ever closer union” was gone well before the Brexit referendum. When negotiating a definitive opt-out from the clause, David Cameron revealed how the growing trend towards integration had reached a symbolic limit, regardless of the referendum result. In that European Council of February 2016, it...
Ukraine’s Parliament slips in dangerous carte blanche for blocking torture investigations
A new norm sneaked in when nobody was looking will lead to a situation where investigations into allegations of torture and ill-treatment by prison staff are carried out by the suspected perpetrators’ colleagues . …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukrainian MP Nadia Savchenko Publishes List of Conflict Prisoners and Missing People
The former Ukrainian military pilot’s initiative was criticized for being detrimental to relatives of those on the list, and to the Ukrainian side. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Public Debate “What is after the Budapest Memorandum?”
On 5th of December, the anniversary of signing the Budapest Memorandum, the Institute of World Policy held a debate and presentation of the research on new opportunities for strengthening security of Ukraine. …read more Source: Institute of World...
