Belarus Turns the Screws on Online Media
Journalists push back against proposed amendments that would complicate the work of online reporters and impose restrictions on social media users. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Fears of Radiation Leak From Flooded Ukraine Mine
Kyiv and Washington are calling on Ukrainian separatists not to stop the pumps in a mine where a small nuclear bomb was detonated in 1979. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Murder trial but no probe into police behaviour during anti-Roma pogrom in Loshchynivka
Objections have been quashed against holding the high-profile trial of a young man accused of the rape and murder of a child behind closed doors. The trial is of public interest because of the anti-Roma pogrom which followed it, and because there are grounds for believing that the defendant is innocent. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Azeri-Dutch Journalist Dodges Baku’s Extradition Bid
Ukraine decides against sending reporter back to Azerbaijan, where he faces charges similar to those thrown at other regime critics. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
A Likely Story: Russia Urges Foreign-Based Students to Come Home
Government agency launches program aimed at students in Britain and other “unfriendly countries.” …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Washington Puts the Macron Method to the Test
Transatlantic TakeThere’s No Moving Trump WASHINGTON, DC — One of the most consequential developments in U.S. security policy in the last eight years is the growing strength of the security partnership between Washington and Paris. This may seem surprising. After all, it was not that long ago the U.S.–France relationship was characterized...
Partners in Piety: Inside Ukraine’s Evangelical Business Empire
This church will “really change your consciousness and reform your life”. But at what cost? From openDemocracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Secret Collaborators and Traitors used to persecute for faith in Russian-occupied Crimea
Crimean Tatar Human Rights activist Emir-Usein Kuku and five other Ukrainian Muslims are facing huge sentences on fatally flawed charges with the ‘evidence’ so far provided by a traitor, now working for Russia’s FSB, and an alcoholic ‘secret witness’, whose testimony seems to have been dictated by the prosecution …read...
Doubts Raised Over Russian Journalist’s Death
Authorities are not treating Maxim Borodin’s death as a crime, although colleagues say the young reporter’s stories about local mercenaries might have hit a nerve. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Here Are All the Reasons Striking Syria Was a Bad Idea
Ted Galen Carpenter The air and missile strikes that the United States and its British and French allies launched against Syrian government targets are reprehensible for so many reasons. First, Washington’s action is a flagrant violation of the U.S. Constitution. Except in cases of responding to an attack on the United States, that document...
