With smart cities, your every step will be recorded
pxhereModern cities are brimming with objects that receive, collect and transmit data. This includes mobile phones but also objects actually embedded into our cities, such as traffic lights and air pollution stations. Even something as simple as a garbage bin can now be connected to the internet, meaning that it forms part of what is called the...
In Ukraine a life sentence is for life even when you’re innocent
An important European Court of Human Rights ruling has prompted Ukrainian human rights groups to demand a Constitutional Court review of the current lack of real mechanisms for releasing people sentenced to life imprisonment. The move is particularly important given strong grounds in very many cases for believing that life prisoners are either...
Russian tanks entering Ukraine that the OSCE is mandated to miss
Russia has spent four years denying responsibility for the tanks and huge arsenal of weapons provided to Kremlin-controlled militants in Donbas, and using OSCE observers to purportedly back this denial. While this is not the observers’ fault, the vast expanse of border area physically beyond their scope, as well as the clamps placed on what...
Donbas Businessmen: From Victims to Peace-Builders?
A well-established private sector makes the Donbas conflict different from the separatist conflicts of the early 1990s in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Private business is a strong pro-peace force because lawlessness, a fragile security environment, and a shrinking population and its impoverishment can be crippling to business...
Infighting Hits Opposition Camp as Moscow Mayoral Campaign Opens
Two liberals are fighting for the chance to oust Kremlin man Sobyanin from one of Russia’s most powerful elected posts. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
FTAC: To a Pakistani On the Image of American Warmongering
The Grand Game for Hearts and Minds remains in play between America and Russia. Searching up video title “Five Decades of Lies and Wars” will take you to the prompt for the following text. Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures It was the Soviet Union that poured $1 billion itself into America’s domestic Vietnam Era...
Trends in Innovation from Young European Leaders
The Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI) Fellowship program, implemented by GMF in partnership with the U.S. Department of State, selects young European and Eurasian entrepreneurs and innovators and over the course of one year provides them the tools, networks, and resources they need to turn ideas into action and grow...
Deluded Dreams of a Third Rome
Russia / World Russia’s conflict with the West is entering a dangerous new phase. The war in Syria is flaring up once again. An ex-spy is fighting for his life in a British hospital, amid diplomatic fallout over the first use of chemical weapons on European soil since the Second World War. Investigators in the United States are upping the...
Merkel Gives Ground on Nord Stream 2
Berlin has until now stressed the pipeline’s commercial advantages, but can no longer ignore the swelling chorus of discontent. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine washes its hands of civilian victims of Russian-sponsored war in Donbas
Legislation naming Russia as aggressor and stipulating its full liability for the death and suffering inflicted on Donbas may seem an important affirmation of truth amid all the lies and propaganda. It will not help the thousands of Ukrainians whose lives have been devastated and who need assistance now. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
