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May17

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...

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No World Cup as usual as Oleg Sentsov lays his life on the line, demanding the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners
May17

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...

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Russia Crows Over Crimean Bridge Opening
May16

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...

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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...

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U.S.-Ukraine Energy Cooperation: A Discussion on Strengthening Ukrainian Energy Security
May15

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...

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4 years of Kremlin’s ‘Donbas republics’ and their far-right and left-wing friends
May15

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...

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Another Roma camp attacked and burned down in Ukraine, with police seeing only ‘hooliganism’
May14

Another Roma camp attacked and burned down in Ukraine, with police seeing only ‘hooliganism’

A permanent Roma settlement in Rudne, near Lviv, was burned down on 9 May, leaving a number of families homeless. It was the second attack on a Ukrainian Roma camp in less than a month, although this time nobody has publicly admitted to carrying it out.. While Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsperson clearly views this as a hate crime, and...

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Russian FSB seize the cousin of Crimean Tatar political prisoner
May14

Russian FSB seize the cousin of Crimean Tatar political prisoner

Nuri Primov and three other recognized Crimean Tatar political prisoners are imprisoned in Russia on the basis of a conversation about their Muslim faith, about Ukraine and Russia. It is likely that similar ‘evidence’ will be provided to jail Primov’s cousin Enver Seytosmanov who has just become the latest victim of Russia’s...

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Moscow Region Chokes on Noxious Landfill Fumes
May11

Moscow Region Chokes on Noxious Landfill Fumes

Two officials face charges in one town as protests against bad air from other dumps run on. …read more Source: Transitions Online...

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To Kill a Briber
May11

To Kill a Briber

In an interview with Hromadske, policy expert Alina Mungiu-Pippidi assesses the success of Ukraine’s anti-corruption reforms. …read more Source: Transitions Online...

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