Key Issues and Policy Recommendations by The Eighth International Conference “Human Rights and Security Sector Governance: Ukraine’s Reform Challenges” (Razumkov Centre, Ukraine)
This publication offers the Key Issues and Policy Recommendations based on the results of the Eighth International Conference “Human Rights and Security Sector Governance: Ukraine’s Reform Challenges”, Held 21-22 June 2017 in Kiev. Since 2014, Ukraine’s security sector has been undergoing reforms. The implementation of state reforms...
Yurii Yakymenko participates in the International Round Table “Before and After Elections – Is the Populism Receding?”
On 4 October 2017 took place the international round table “Before and After Elections – Is the Populism Receding?” organised by the Adenauer Foundation Office in Ukraine and the Embassy of the Republic of Austria in Ukraine. In the work of the round table took part the Deputy Director General – Director of Political and Legal Programmes of the...
Key Issues and Policy Recommendations by the Second International Conference “Security Sector Governance:The Role of Democratic Institutions & International Best Practices” (Razumkov Centre, Ukraine)
This publication offers the Key Issues and Policy Recommendations based on the results of the Second International Conference “Security Sector Governance: The Role of Democratic Institutions & International Best Practices”, held 16-17 March 2016, in Kiev. This publication offers the Key Issues and Policy Recommendations based on the results...
Ukraine’s Internally Displaced Persons: Understanding Population Displacement in Ukraine
Invitation Only Research Event 6 Nov 2017 – 10:00 to 12:00Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Melinda Harding, Editor, Ukraine Alert, Atlantic CouncilBen Robinson, Fellow, Institute of StatecraftDr Irina Kuznetsova, University of BirminghamAmbassador John E. Herbst, Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council...
JIT Publishes New Photograph of Buk 332 from Day of MH17 Downing
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Dark clouds over the Ukrainian gas market reform
In September, three out of five members of the supervisory board of Naftogaz, Ukraine’s largest gas company, announced their resignation. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Hazardous Legacies: An Open-Source Overview of the Destruction of Deir ez-Zor’s Oil Industry
Now that the so-called Islamic State (IS) is rapidly losing terrain in eastern Syria, a race is underway to capture the oil-rich Deir ez-Zor governorate. The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and militias loyal to the Syrian government, under cover of the Russian airstrikes, rush towards the fields east of the Euphrates River; but so does a contingent of...
U.S. Helsinki Commission Takes the Lead on Combatting Kleptocracy
The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (also known as the Helsinki Commission) has used a series of recent events to highlight the threat posed by global kleptocracy to the U.S. and its allies. On October 3, KI Executive Director Charles Davidson testified at a Helsinki Commission hearing on Combatting Kleptocracy with Incorporation...
The European Council: What makes it to the agenda and why?
Written by Izabela Bacian, The Leaders’ Agenda presented by European Council President Donald Tusk in October 2017 sets priorities for action at the European level for the coming two years. Interestingly, the Leaders’ Agenda is based on the Bratislava and Rome declarations informally adopted by the EU27 leaders, and not on the...
Kleptocracy Daily: October 18, 2017
China: Xi Jinping opened the 19th CCP Congress with a three-and-a-half hour speech setting out “a vision of total control — with the party guiding not only the economy and the Internet but culture, religion and morals,” writes Simon Denyer. Xi cited the “virus” of corruption as the greatest threat to the Party and promised to maintain the...
