Kennan Cable No.26: Women’s Organizations Peacebuilding across Conflicts in the Former Soviet Union
The collapse of the Soviet Union spurred numerous conflicts at the edges of the former empire. Many of these ethnic conflicts, including Chechnya (Russian Federation), Transnistria (Moldova), Nagorno-Karabakh (Armenia-Azerbaijan), and Abkhazia (Georgia), have turned into frozen conflicts. However, the outbreak of the 2008 war in Georgia and the...
Also in Media: Excerpt: “Mikhail Khodorkovsky Lantos Rule of Law Speech”, October 10, 2017
It is a great honour for me to give the first Tom Lantos Rule of Law Lecture. I would like to thank Annette Lantos, Katrina Lantos, and their whole large family for all their support over these 10 long years. Today, the outside world is seeing Russia more and more as an aggressive country with an outmoded economy… Against the background of the...
Hungary: a state captured by Russia
Mihály Vajda, a renowned Hungarian philosopher[1] recently resigned from his post as Professor Emeritus after the University of Debrecen awarded Vladimir Putin an honorary degree. This event took place during the Russian president’s most recent visit to Budapest and remarkably encapsulates how Hungary’s political right has come full...
Hungary wants EU to review Ukraine ties over minority languages law
Hungary will ask the European Union to review its ties with Ukraine over Kyiv’s decision to scrap teaching subjects in languages of its ethnic minorities, including in Hungarian, from its secondary school curriculum. …read more Source:...
Ukraine Won’t Be Solved Any Time Soon
Russia-backed rebel guards his position near division line with Ukrainian army with anti-tank missile near Dokuchaevsk, eastern Ukraine, image by Mstyslav Chernov via Wikimedia CommonsBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 611, October 11, 2017 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The conflict in East Ukraine has reached a frozen phase in which neither side is making...
Ukraine Reform Monitor: October 2017
President Poroshenko’s power consolidation-and pushback against it-is the hallmark of Ukrainian politics heading toward elections in 2019. Yet reform progress is being made, even if the pace remains slow. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The Active Measures Orchestra: An Examination of Russian Influence Operations Abroad
“The approaches used by Moscow include control of the press in foreign countries; outright and partial forgery of documents; use of rumors, insinuation, altered facts, and lies; use of international and local front organizations; clandestine operation of radio stations; exploitation of a nation’s academic, political, economic, and media...
Event: How Non-State Actors Export Kleptocratic Norms to the West
Event: Join KI and distinguished experts tomorrow for the launch of Ilya Zaslavskiy’s report, How Non-State Actors Export Kleptocratic Norms to the West. RSVP to attend or watch live from 10:00 a.m. Podcasts: Alex Cooley discusses luxury real estate’s money laundering role with Masha Udensiva-Brenner. (EurasiaNet.org) John Cassara...
Catalonia awakens questions from Europe’s past
All eyes have are now on the Catalonia, inducing Moscow’s. In the second report of a two part series, CEPA’s Edward Lucas re-examines independence movements from the Baltics to Crimea in order to find lessons learned amidst the self-determination process. …read more Source: Center for European Policy...
Russia abducts and ’arrests’ two Ukrainian border guards
There seems no let-up in Russian abductions of Ukrainian citizens of late, however the seizure of two border guards on October 3 stands apart, both because this is a brazen abduction of state officials, and because of the fairly obvious motive. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
