British Bank Closes Russian Broadcaster RT Accounts
UK government denies any role in NatWest’s unexplained move to close the Kremlin’s English-language mouthpiece. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Putin and the West: What Next?
Just when relations between Russia and the West seemed to have reached an all-time low, things have taken a turn for the worse this fall. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Watch List Findings: Oct. 15, 2016
What follows are the preliminary findings for issues identified in the daily Watch Lists this week. We are only sending findings that we regard as significant or potentially significant to keep this email manageable. We have findings for all the Watch List items. Should you be interested in findings not listed here, please contact us and we will...
The New Deterrent? International Sanctions Against Russia Over the Ukraine Crisis: Impacts, Costs and Further Action
Publication date: 14th October 2016 …read more Source: NATO...
PACE & Kremlin-backed militants acknowledge direct Russian control in Donbas
It seems denial is now passé, with everybody – Russia, the militants themselves, and Europe – fairly openly acknowledging the direct control that Russia wields over the militants in Donbas, and their so-called ‘Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Another Crimean Tatar faces 5-year sentence for opposing Russian occupation of Crimea
Russia is literally accusing Suleyman Kadyrov, as it has Ilmi Umerov and journalist Mykola Semena, of ‘separatism’ for opposing Russian occupation of their homeland, with the article of the criminal code – 280.1 carrying a possible 5-year term of imprisonment …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Putin admits to Russian military involvement in Donbas
It is possibly no coincidence that the admission follows what seems like a major campaign to convince the West that we’re on the brink of world war and an extremely obvious attempt via Vladimir Zhirinovsky to link peace with a victory in the US elections by Donald Trump …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
New wave of Crimean Tatar arrests in Russian-occupied Crimea
Five more Crimean Tatars are in custody in Russian-occupied Crimea accused of involvement in an organization which is legal in Ukraine. The five men are all devout Muslims and some at least have this year or last taken part in the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca. Under Russian occupation, no more appears to be needed to face imprisonment on...
Russia’s FSB remove posters asking about abducted Crimean Tatar activist Ervin Ibragimov
“Those who give the command to abduct people should look their own mother in the eye and ask her what it means to lose a child”. Lilia Budzhurova’s words will doubtless not be heard by those in Moscow who bear responsibility for the lawlessness unleashed since Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv...
Daughter of Kadyrov Critic Assaulted
Her father, head of Russian MMA group, had suffered extensive backlash after criticizing MMA children fights in Chechnya. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
