NRA’s Ties to Russian Banker Probed
Alexander Torshin boasted of his NRA membership, and sought meetings with Trump. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
New Fissures Appear in Ukrainian Christian Faiths
Worsening relations with Russia over the Donbas conflict are driving a wedge between the two main Orthodox branches. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Polish Extremists Suspected in Ukraine Arson
Ukrainian officials hint at Russian involvement in two attempts to burn down a building used by the Hungarian minority. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia and Ukraine Locked in Gas-Related Court Battle
A four-year dispute over gas deliveries between Russian and Ukrainian energy giants ended in a court ruling on Wednesday, only to spark new disagreements. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
U.S. Confirms Antitank Missile Sale to Ukraine
Head of Pentagon’s DARPA tech incubator says the agency is working with local partners. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Return of Crimea
VOLYA Institute for Contemporary Law and Society and the NYU Program in International Relations are happy to announce an upcoming panel discussion on March 6th, 2018 titled “The Return of Crimea”. The event “The Return of Crimea” calls upon the Ukrainian community and those concerned about the fate of Crimea and its people, following the...
Assessing the Impact of Sanctions on the Russian Defence Sector
Corporate Members Nominees Breakfast Briefing Partners and Major Corporates 23 May 2018 – 08:00 to 09:15Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London …read more Source: Chatham...
Ukraine four years after the Maidan
By Steven PiferIn late February 2014, following three months of demonstrations on Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), then-President Victor Yanukovych fled the Ukrainian capital on a tortuous path that ultimately took him to Russia. On February 22, 2014, Ukraine’s parliament appointed an acting president and acting...
History Begins (Again) for the Pentagon
The views expressed in this article are the authors’ own and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Government, the U.S. Department of Defense, or the U.S. Army. Thanks to a near-myopic obsession with eradicating transnational Islamic terrorism, costly invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, and a zero-risk approach to...
A Classic Dilemma: Russia’s Threat to Withdraw from the Council of Europe
When Russia joined the Council of Europe in 1996, this was a major step and a sign of a fundamentally new time. The successor state to the Soviet Union joined a pan-European human rights regime that provided the citizens of its member states with effective judicial tools to defend their rights. Today, a good two decades later, Russia’s...
