Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Crucial Maidan killings suspect released with courts accused of sabotage
Roman Zavorotny, who is accused of a key role in arming ‘titushki’ or paid thugs with police machine guns, was released from custody just after midnight on Sunday morning …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia employs old Soviet playbook in Georgia as U.S. sits on the sidelines.
REDS UNDER/ON THE OUR BEDS…? By L. Todd Wood – – Thursday, March 24, 2016 ANALYSIS/OPINION: When Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution broke out in 2014, Western leaders should have recognized right at the outset that Russia would employ the same playbook there as it has in another vulnerable slice of the old Soviet Union — Georgia. With its small...
Putin’s “Sacred Mission” in Syria
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 335, March 27, 2016 Russia’s intervention in Syria cannot be fully explained by strategic or economic factors. Russian political culture, which has been permeated since the fifteenth century by a messianic vision of apocalyptic redemption, has long been a significant guiding factor in the decision-making...
Prosecutor General’s Office obtains carte blanche to raid anti-corruption NGO
The ever-obliging Pechersky Court in Kyiv has allowed the Prosecutor General’s Office to search and remove documents, etc. from the Anti-Corruption Action Centre. This, we are to understand, is how the illustrious investigators want to find US money allocated for reforming the prosecutor’s office …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Why murder the lawyer of captured Russian military intelligence officers?
The brutal murder of Yury Hrabovsky, the lawyer representing one of two believed Russian GRU officers captured in 2015 in Donbas, came at a time when the men’s exchange for Ukrainians held prisoner in Russia was being openly discussed. While it is widely assumed that his murder is linked with the case, it is less clear who is behind it....
IS where to start?
…Who can become IS fighter? Anyone – an unemployed, a career officer, fanatic unclear orientation. The main thing – to find these, and seduce someone with money who are “celestial houris”, who – career. And, of course, the main help is to promote, without IS – nothing. If you carefully read the Russian press, it appears that the IS – “main force”...
Critical lawmakers to be expelled from parliament after exposing corruption
The decision on stripping them of mandates follows large-scale corruption accusations by Firsov against Oleksandr Hranovsky, a high-ranking Poroshenko Bloc lawmaker, and his key ally Ihor Kononenko. Some critics even argue that the decision reflects the Poroshenko Bloc’s transformation into something worse than disgraced ex-President Viktor...
The Jaresko manifesto for Ukraine
Ukraine’s US-born finance minister, Natalie Jaresko, released a statement in the evening of March 22 that amounts to both a political manifesto and a direct challenge to President Petro Poroshenko to act decisively and give her the job of PM. IN: The Jaresko manifesto for Ukraine …read more Source: The American Center for a European...
Russian Opposition Meets Abroad, Calls for Greater Democratization and Federalism at Home
The first ever meeting of the Forum of Free Russia took place on March 9–10, in Vilnius, Lithuania. It was a unique public event, featuring a direct dialogue between Russian political emigrants and oppositional activists still residing in Russia. Such a conference would be impossible to hold in present-day Russia. And indeed, many of its exile...
Arrest of an ‘Oligarch’ in Belarus
On March 11, Yury Chyzh, one of Belarus’s wealthiest entrepreneurs, was arrested. Chyzh heads Triple, a conglomerate with 5,000 employees and assets in various businesses, including the oil trade, construction, the import of alcoholic beverages, the hotel industry and other sectors. By the standards of Russia or Ukraine, Chyzh is no...
