Ukrainians Tortured & Imprisoned in Russia’s Revenge for Maidan
How large a role the Kremlin played in trying to crush Ukraine’s Euromaidan protests still needs to be established, but Russia’s politically motivated prosecutions of Ukrainians who took part in Maidan certainly suggest an element of revenge. On this 3rd anniversary of Euromaidan, spare a thought for the Maidan activists now serving...
Ukraine Seeks EU Support to Keep U.S. Sanctions on Russia
November 21, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Pro-Russian Moldovan President-Elect Plans Forced Resignations
A week after winning the presidential election, Igor Dodon has already earmarked heads to roll. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia hopes to benefit from Britain’s departure
For several decades, the United Kingdom has been vital to the formation of the European energy market. It was one of the first European countries to privatise and deregulate its national electricity and gas markets, and has since benefited from the collective power of the EU to counter the threats of energy exporters such as Russia, thereby...
Ukraine’s Security Service’s strange collaboration with Russia in its political persecution of opponents
Ukraine’s Security Service [SBU] appears to be collaborating with its Russian FSB counterpart even where there are strong grounds for believing that FSB interest in Russian citizens living in Ukraine is as politically motivated as its persecution of Ukrainians in occupied Crimea and Russia …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Russia Challenges World’s Highest Criminal Court
The controversial tribunal is ineffective and biased, Kremlin believes. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Hello, Petro? Almazbek Here
Infamous Russian pranksters hit another Ukrainian target. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
EU approves Ukraine visa-free travel
European Union member states yesterday (17 November) approved visa-free travel for Ukraine citizens, long sought by Kyiv to help cement ties as it combats pro-Russian rebels in the east. …read more Source:...
The Russian Plot against Europe
There is no single formula for how Russia projects power in Europe, but the goal of its Trojan Horse strategy is the same: to build a web of political leaders, parties, and civil society organizations that will legitimize Russia’s aims to destabilize European unity and undermine European values …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Jailed & now subjected to punitive psychiatry for being Muslim in Russian-occupied Crimea
Muslim Aliev, a Crimean Tatar held in detention since armed and masked men burst into his home, terrifying his children, in February this year, has now been forcibly placed in a psychiatric clinic in Simferopol. There are fears that he and other political prisoners will face undisclosed ‘psychiatric treatment’. …read more Source:...
