Maradona Heads for Belarus
The Argentine football legend’s career takes another startling twist. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine Accuses RIA Novosti Editor of Treason
Authorities say the Russian state news agency participates in the Kremlin’s “hybrid information war.” …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Only Way to Improve Ukraine’s Courts
Right now, not only the future of anticorruption and judicial reforms is at stake. All the country’s other successes depend on whether we get the anticorruption court right this time …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
European Lobbying Could Save Russian Industrial Giant
Complaints from European governments and multinationals apparently persuaded White House to take a second look at sanctions against Oleg Deripaska’s Rusal. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia-and-the-west
A strategic confrontation between Russia and the West has been under way for at least four years: for understandable reasons, given Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interference in the internal politics of the United States and some European countries, and his military adventurism in Ukraine and Syria. Yet Russia and the West are both...
No World Cup as usual as Oleg Sentsov lays his life on the line, demanding the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners
Ukrainian filmmaker and Kremlin hostage Oleg Sentsov has declared an indefinite hunger strike with his sole demand being the release of all the Ukrainian political prisoners held by Russia. It seems he has been planning this move for the last month and a half and he told his lawyer: “If I die before or during the World Cup, there will be...
Russia Crows Over Crimean Bridge Opening
Engineering feat will simplify life in Russian-controlled peninsula, but will also likely worsen relations with Kyiv. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine: Radical Groups Disrupt LGBTI Event
Expand Kyiv police waiting outside the venue where an Amnesty International event was disrupted by members of radical groups. Kyiv, Ukraine. May 10, 2018. © Tanya Cooper/Human Rights Watch (Kyiv) – Members of radical nationalist groups violently disrupted a May 10, 2018 discussion in Kyiv about LGBTI rights, Human Rights Watch said today. Despite...
U.S.-Ukraine Energy Cooperation: A Discussion on Strengthening Ukrainian Energy Security
Section 257 of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act stipulated the development of a plan to support strengthening Ukrainian energy security. While the sanctions act developed a framework for short-term U.S.-Ukraine collaboration, there are still questions about how collaboration between both the U.S. and Ukrainian...
4 years of Kremlin’s ‘Donbas republics’ and their far-right and left-wing friends
It is surely appropriate that the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics’ [DPR, LPR] date their ‘statehood’ from a fake referendum that even Russia eventually decided not to recognize. This is not the way the so-called ’11 May referendum’ is presented in the militant-controlled media and a new...
