Decision Looms for Ukrainian Journalist Accused of Spying on Russia
Prominent defense lawyer Mark Feygin claims Roman Sushchenko could be sent home in a prisoner swap. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
EU Lets Gazprom Off Without Fines
Some eastern member countries unhappy with Commission ruling on the dominant player in the continent’s gas market. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Bessarabia’s Hopes and Fears on Ukraine’s Edge
How Kiev manages the diverse region of Bessarabia will be closely watched elsewhere in Ukraine, where political trust in the central authorities is still low. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Estonia, Russia Exchange Tough Talk on Border Treaty
Russia will not ratify the treaty until Estonian leaders stop their “Russophobic rhetoric,” Russia’s embassy in Tallinn fumes. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Latvian Banking: Recent Reforms, Sustainable Solutions
Photo Credit: Meunierd / Shutterstock Introduction Latvia’s non-resident banking sector, which caters to clients from Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), has finally become politically untenable. After years of scandals and massive illicit flows through Latvia, the government has concluded that the...
Russia Suspected in New Cyberattack on Ukraine
FBI says it hobbled the attack, but researchers warn it may not be over; Dutch police accuse Russia in MH17 shootdown. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
,Another Roma camp set alight, this time with gunshots & racist media report
There has been another arson attack on a Roma camp in Ukraine, the third in just over a month, with this one accompanied both by shooting and by an appallingly xenophobic report on the Facebook page of a local media publication. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia admits complicity in abduction of Crimean Tatar activist through refusal to investigate
It is two years since 31-year-old Ervin Ibragimov, member of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars, was abducted by men in road patrol uniform from near his home in Bakhchysarai. Despite video footage showing the abduction, the Russian occupation regime effectively never carried out a real investigation, which has only...
Under No Illusions
As new textbooks on Russian history, close to the Kremlin playbook, are rolled out in the country’s high schools, some teachers make clear that they are not so easily fooled. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Getting Out from In-Between
The West and Russia currently find themselves locked in a dangerous competition. Meanwhile, other states in the region, including Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia, remain to varying degrees unstable, unreformed, and rife with conflict. The approaches to regional order seem likely to exacerbate these problems. The panelists will discuss these...
