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...
Latest U.S. Sanctions Take Aim at Russian Oligarchs
Russian stocks plunge as investors react to a stinging new round of economic measures. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia Turns Screws on Popular Messaging App
Saying user messages are sacrosanct, Telegram is refusing to give the authorities back-door access to accounts. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Plundering & Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia & occupied Crimea
A year after Russia outlawed the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a first believer is on trial, facing a ten-year prison sentence and repressive measures are gaining pace. These include armed searches and arrests, as well as the state theft of Jehovah’s Witness land and property. It seems only a matter of time before Jehovah’s Witnesses...
