The Harmful Effects of Antifa
An historic opportunity is being missed. The disastrous 2016 presidential election could and should have been a wakeup call. A corrupt political system that gave voters a choice between two terrible candidates is not democracy. This should have been the signal to face reality. The US political system is totally rotten, contemptuous of the people,...
Sobchak: ‘Against All’ Yet for Navalny?
The celebrity’s presidential campaign picks up speed, although few give her or anyone else a chance to unseat Putin. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Belarus Looks to Improve EU Ties
The former Soviet state sets its sights on expanding trade and economic relations, and developing new sources of foreign capital. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kremlin Gadfly Browder Loses, Regains U.S. Visa
Russia made its latest attempt to have Browder extradited as Canada was enacting its own Magnitsky law. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Watch List: Oct. 24, 2017
The items listed below represent potential emerging issues that our analysts are tracking. These can be long term or short term, but will be updated daily. If an item on our Watch List becomes critical, we will email you a full analysis explaining its significance. Each Saturday, we will follow up our daily Watch List for each week with our...
Poroshenko honours judge who effectively sentenced renowned Ukrainian dissident to death
Valery Marchenko should have turned 70 this year, after a long life which he would have surely spent serving Ukraine. The renowned journalist, writer and human rights defender died in October 1984, just a few months after being sentenced to 10 years labour camp for so-called ‘anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda’. 33 years after the...
Trial imminent of Russian soldier captured fighting in Donbas
The trial could begin in the next few weeks of Viktor Ageyev, the latest serving Russian soldier to be captured in the Luhansk oblast of Ukraine. Ageyev will be represented by a Ukrainian state-appointed lawyer since Russia has refused to provide him with legal aid …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
The Unfinished Business of the 1989 East European Revolutions
Recent developments in Ukraine can be viewed as a third attempt to complete the unfinished business of the 1989 East European revolutions. These revolutions succeeded in Central Europe and the Baltics, but brought mixed results in the Balkans and the former Soviet Republics. Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia remain the only post-Soviet states defying...
October 20th, 2017
CHINA “A Huge Deal” For China As The Era Of Xi Jinping Thought Begins Tom Phillips, The Guardian China’s communist leader, Xi Jinping, looks to have further strengthened his rule over the world’s second largest economy with the apparent confirmation that a new body of political theory bearing his name will be written into the...
NATO’s Eastern Flank and Its Future Relationship With Russia
Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its invasion of eastern Ukraine unified NATO and prompted allies to beef up defenses. But the process of strengthening the alliance’s Eastern flank is far from over. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
