Ukrainian Reform Activists Derail Effort To ’Destroy’ Anticorruption Body
Ukrainian activists and reformist lawmakers worked tirelessly overnight to remove a bill from parliamentary consideration that they say would “destroy”the country’s only independent investigative body by dismissing its chief. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
New article by Johannes Leitner and Hannes Meissner on Political Risks in the Ukraine
Der Beitrag New article by Johannes Leitner and Hannes Meissner on Political Risks in the Ukraine erschien zuerst auf Competence Center for Black Sea Region Studies. …read more Source: Competence Center for Black Sea Region...
Ukraine: a commotion around Saakashvili
On 5 December in Kiev an attempt was made by the security service of Ukraine to detain Mikheil Saakashvili. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
FTAC: “Oh, Jerusalem” and Islam’s New Divide
The prompt was the familiar — too familiar — and now cliche threat: the whole Muslims world will now unify against the “Little” and “Great” Satan that would be Israel and the United States were it not that Moscow, Damascus, and Tehran have consistently and with enthusiasm proven themselves cruel and evil to the Believers fervent or moderate:...
Ukraine’s Key Trends: Looking Ahead to 2018
Invitation Only Research Event 12 Dec 2017 – 10:00 to 11:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London Russia and Eurasia Programme, …read more Source: Chatham...
Legal experts demolish the allegations against Mikheil Saakashvili as his associate jailed
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General cane up with apparently serious allegations on December 5, as well as some intercepted telephone conversations, to back the aborted attempt to detain Mikheil Saakashvili which made headlines throughout the world. While Saakashvili remains at liberty, his close associate Severion Dangadze has been remanded in...
Ukraine: 20 years since Ottawa, much remains to be done
News release …read more Source: International Committee of the Red...
Skiing in Emerging Europe
With the first snows of the winter having already fallen across Emerging Europe, many people’s thoughts would have already turned to winter holidays, and to skiing. While for many the countries of the region are not the first to spring to mind when planning a ski trip, there are in fact a number of very good ski resorts in this part of the...
Excerpt: from hybrid to asymmetric warfare
The following is an excerpt from the Debating Security Plus 2017 report published by Friends of Europe. Since Russia’s 2014 actions in Crimea, the term “hybrid warfare” has become a new buzzword in security discussions. Hybrid warfare can essentially be defined as representing amplified use of irregular, nonconventional and subversive...
Britain needs to wake up to the Russian threat
It’s hard to avoid mention of Donald Trump and Russia in British political circles these days. And the combined threat they pose. Liberal democracies have come late to an understanding of the threat Russia’s hybrid warfare pose. The threat has been super-charged by an investigation into Trump’s collusion with Russia, which could...
