Report Traces Odessa Crime Proceeds to London
Ukraine’s top anti-corruption prosecutor suspected of aiding key figure in money laundering scheme. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Threat From Russia: Can Putin Be Stopped?
Is Vladimir Putin the most powerful – and dangerous – man in the world? With Putin in the Kremlin, we have returned to an era where former Russian spies are mysteriously poisoned on British soil and where Russia feels emboldened to roll its tanks into an eastern European state. The Kremlin uses deadly force to wipe out opponents and stifle...
De-Mining Donbas
While the conflict between the central government in Kyiv and Russian-backed separatists simmers, the process of making frontline villages safe has begun. From Hromadske International. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia’s Efforts to Destabilize Bosnia and Herzegovina
Photo Credit: Fredy Thuerig / Shutterstock More than 20 years have passed since the United States brokered the Dayton Peace Accords to end the conflict that ravaged Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) after the collapse of Yugoslavia. The peace agreement ended the war, but the country remains bedeviled by old demons, particularly nationalist political...
Russia Claims Anti-Terror Success in Dagestan
Local authorities are also widening probe into corruption in the capital and other cities. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Mother of arrested Crimean Tatar activist sentenced for ‘insulting’ and ‘depressing’ a police officer
49-year-old Zarema Kulametova has been convicted in Russian-occupied Crimea of ‘insulting’ a police officer on the day that her son disappeared for several hours after being taken away by armed enforcement officers. The officer was awarded ‘compensation’ after claiming to have ‘been depressed for several months”...
No more than 3% of police torture cases in Ukraine reach the courts
Two and a half thousand Ukrainians who sought help from medical institutions in 2017 reported that their injuries had been caused by police officers. While the number of such cases is on the rise, the number of criminal proceedings initiated by the prosecutor’s office has decreased …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia tries to ‘give itself’ more Ukrainian territory
The Russian-controlled ‘government’ in occupied Crimea has decided to ‘hand over’ Ukraine’s Tuzla Island to Russia. The move is linked with Russia’s construction of a bridge between Russia and Crimea, and is legally meaningless …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia Plays Cat and Mouse With Telegram
Google, Apple, Amazon could be roped in as Moscow tries to enforce a shutdown of the popular app. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
History: From coal to climate
Energy has played a major role in the history of the European Union. Coal was the first fuel to be exploited; signed in 1951, the Treaty of Paris established the European Coal and Steel Community. With the signing of the Euratom treaty in 1957 to promote nuclear power, energy was once again the backbone of European integration. The economic base...
