Vloggers With a Cause
Belarusian YouTube vloggers are free to talk about what they want – at their own risk. From Belarus Digest. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Petition regarding the ongoing failure to allow Azerbaijani journalist Fikret Huseynli to leave Ukraine
The Prosecutor’s office has effectively stolen Azerbaijani journalist Fikret Huseynli’s passport despite a court ruling which makes it possible for him to leave Ukraine …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia uses hate speech to stir up fear and hatred of Ukrainians in occupied Crimea
Russia is deliberately creating an atmosphere of fear and aggression in occupied Crimea with Ukraine and Ukrainians pitched as ‘the enemy’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Kremlin’s Hybrid Warfare Strategies Revealed
An unpublished report based on an analysis of leaked Kremlin emails reveals the Russian government’s hybrid warfare tactics in Ukraine, some of which are applied in the West as well. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Putin’s Post-Election Policy Priorities
Vladimir Putin again secured the country’s presidency for another six-year term. In the lead up to the elections, the rhetoric from Moscow indicated little reason to expect a change in behavior, but the Kremlin’s post-elections foreign policy direction will have significant implications for the transatlantic partners and the global...
“I can’t afford to show cowardice” – Ukrainian jailed for not betraying Ukraine in Russian-occupied Crimea resists pressure to end hunger strike
Almost two weeks after political prisoner Volodymyr Balukh went on hunger strike in Russian-occupied Crimea, his lawyer has only just been able to see him. She reports that he is looking thin and gaunt, and that the SIZO [remand prison] staff are putting pressure on him to end his hunger strike. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Campaigners Face Prison
Ukraine’s activists and journalists fighting corruption in the country will have to publicly disclose their personal assets beginning this Sunday or face up to two years in prison. In recent years, anti-corruption campaigners had fought hard to make the Ukrainian government more open and transparent. In part because of their advocacy, state...
Learning the right lessons, too late
Russia / World Wherever one looks, Russian foreign policy is missing the mark. Ukraine continues to integrate into European institutions, with a liberalized visa regime put into force in June 2017 and Ukraine designated as an aspirant country by NATO in March 2018. In the United States, President Donald Trump has largely preserved and...
Goodbye Trumpian Promises; Hello Beltway Swamp
Ted Galen Carpenter President Trump’s appointment of John Bolton as national security advisor is his final betrayal of anything resembling a realist foreign policy. During the 2016 presidential run, Trump’s statements were a curious, contradictory mixture of realism and extreme nationalistic belligerence. In the former category were...
Antonov: The Unsung Victim of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Russia and Ukraine have discussed joint aircraft industry projects numerous times, but in the context of other problems, such as their gas disputes. The two sides brought more and more resources to the table, trying to get a better deal in the conflict. Antonov was just one of the tools used as a bargaining chip in gas price negotiations....
