Election Season in Southeastern and Eastern Europe
Social Democrats win in Romania, while conservatives have slim lead in Macedonia, and Transdniester gets a new president. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
HRW: The Investigators
Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of roughly 400 staff members around the globe. Its staff consists of human rights professionals including country experts, lawyers, journalists, and academics of diverse backgrounds and nationalities. Established in 1978, Human Rights Watch is known for its...
Wave Of Arrests Among Pro-Moscow Belarusians
Several detentions of Belarusians showcasing their pro-Russian feelings on the internet might point to a wider, security-related crackdown. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Human Rights Council: Maintain scrutiny of situation in Ukraine
Human Rights Watch welcomes the new periodic report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The report is an important opportunity to reinvigorate discussions on addressing key human rights issues in Ukraine. We would like to highlight several concerns described in the report, some of which have been areas of extensive Human Rights Watch...
Crimean Tatar rights activist placed in psychiatric clinic on eve of Human Rights Day
Emir-Huseyn Kuku, a human rights activist imprisoned in Russian-occupied Crimea on gravely flawed charges has been placed in a psychiatric clinic. This is purportedly for a ‘psychiatric assessment’, but the lack of any grounds and forced hospitalization make charges of punitive psychiatry in his case and that of five other prisoners...
Ukrainian activist arrested on fabricated charges in Russian-occupied Crimea
Crimean activist Volodymyr Balukh has been arrested by the Russian FSB just 10 days after he hung a plaque on his home in memory of the people killed during Euromaidan. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Torture, threats & absurd ‘confessions’ in FSB’s new ‘Crimean saboteur’ plots
The FSB’s new Crimean ‘plots’, in their use of torture, televised ‘confessions’ and grandiose claims, bear an eerie similarity to the first Crimean arrests in May 2014 of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and other opponents of Russia’s occupation, but there are some key differences …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Information war monitor for Central Europe: November 2016 US Elections
By Lóránt Győri, Patrik Szicherle, Veronika Víchová, Daniel Milo, Katarína Klingová. Photo: Flickr|Darron Birgenheier, licensed by CC BY-SA 2.0.GLOBSEC Policy Institute’s bi-weekly overview of conventional and social media discourse in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia monitors propaganda and disinformation attempts, as well as...
A Grim Anniversary?
Twenty-five years after, the majority of Russians mourn the collapse of the USSR, and its reverberations into their private lives. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Work in Progress
Despite state funds earmarked for its activities, Ukrainian public broadcasting still hasn’t materialized. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
