Sentsov’s lawyer to defend Russia’s new tortured ‘Ukrainian Crimea saboteur’ hostage
2 and a half years after Russia’s FSB first seized Crimean filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 3 other opponents of Russia’s annexation, and charged them with a non-existent ‘terrorist plot’, the same scenario is being followed with (at least) two other Ukrainians. Yevhen Panov and Andriy Zakhtei have been illegally taken to Moscow with...
Turkish Stream: The Cost of Russia’s Stubbornness
Unlike Russian gas pumped via Ukraine and Germany, that flowing through Turkey will face tough competition from Azerbaijani, Iranian, Iraqi, and possibly even Turkmen and Israeli gas. Gazprom’s rivals won’t need to ship their gas as far, and they will have much lower pipeline construction costs. The gas market in southeastern Europe...
America’s Russia Policy Has Failed
By any number of measures, Washington’s Russia policy has failed. While ostensibly suffering from diplomatic and economic isolation under a U.S.-led international sanctions regime, Moscow has succeeded in challenging a wide range of American interests, most notably in Ukraine, Syria, and cyberspace. Coming up with a new approach on Russia...
Parliamentary Elections in Georgia
A few days ago, the Georgian population elected a portion of the 9th parliament since the country’s independence. In more than 50 single-member districts a second round of elections is scheduled. A few days ago, the Georgian population elected a portion of the 9th parliament since the country’s independence. (In more than 50...
Tatars Mark One Year of Blockading Crimea
A few hundred protesters vow not to let up the pressure until the peninsula is back in Ukrainian hands. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Citizen’s attitudes to the situation in Donbas
Survey Results The survey was conducted by the Razumkov Centre Sociological Service in the period from 9 to 14 September 2016. Responses were obtained from 2,018 respondents aged 18 and above across all Ukrainian regions, except for Crimea and the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions on the sample that is representative of adult...
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...
