Voices During the Maidan as Captured by Public Radio Ukraine
A lot has been written about the Euromaidan in Ukraine. Many have written about their memories. Oral histories are being recorded. But what were people saying, at the time, as events were unfolding? …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 31 March 2015
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. The SMM, based on its monitoring – which was restricted by third parties and by security considerations* – observed that fighting continued in areas around the Donetsk airport and...
Apocalypse a bit later: The meaning of Putin’s nuclear threats
The words that Russian President Vladimir Putin chose for describing the nuclear angle of the special operation for seizing and annexing Crimea in March 2014, might appear so odd that it is well-nigh impossible to make sense of them. “Yes, we were ready,” he said to the question about whether the option of putting strategic forces on high alert...
Kaliningrad: ‘Just Another Russian Region’
How European is this formerly German, possibly nuclearized piece of Russia wedged in among its Western neigbors? From CEPI. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Post-Easter Attack Predicted in Ukraine, More Deaths on Bulgarian Border
Plus, hackers release text messages from Russia’s Internet watchdog and Belgium wants an Albanian pol in a murder case. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
It’s not in the interest of Poroshenko and Kolomoyskiy to fight with each other
Fifty-two-year-old oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskiy didn’t take the news lying down. Within hours of the parliamentary vote on March 19 he mobilized a group of armed men who barricaded themselves in UkrTransNafta’s offices in Kyiv, the Deutsche Welle reports. “After that compromise between the politicians the threat is minimized to almost...
Putin’s dogs
Co-director of foreign affairs and international security programmes at the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk contributed to the Kyiv Post newspaper about the role of Putin’s dogs in Russian foreign policy. …read more Source: Razumkov...
OSCE Representative Mijatović warns of further restrictions to media pluralism and access to information in Crimea, Ukraine
VIENNA, 1 April 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said that media pluralism and access to information in Crimea, Ukraine, have been limited even further, following the end of the imposed re-registration period for all media outlets by 1 April 2015. “Crimean Tatar media outlets are having their registration...
The Ukraine Crisis: Risks of Renewed Military Conflict after Minsk II
Danger of renewed fighting in Ukraine’s east is mounting. Crisis Group’s new briefing shows that neither side is looking to compromise or able to win outright. Our accompanying statement sets out a new Western strategy with Russia to defuse one of the greatest post-Cold War threats to European stability and global order. …read...
The Biggest Threat to American Liberty
George Washington pointed out, “Overgrown military establishments, which under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.” Wise words by the father of our country, but ones, unfortunately, rejected by modern-day Americans, who love and idolize the...
