Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Forget Fukushima: Chernobyl still holds record as worst nuclear accident for public health
The 1986 Chernobyl and 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accidents both share the notorious distinction of attaining the highest accident rating on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) scale of nuclear accidents. No other reactor incident has ever received this Level 7 “major accident” designation in the history of nuclear power....
Child Survivor of the Holocaust in Poland and Ukraine tells the story. Film screening and discussion. May 18, 18:30
As a little boy, Shimon Redlich survived the Holocaust in Poland under Nazi German occupation after being rescued by a Ukrainian and a Polish family. He returns to the places of his childhood to re-connect with this past, to understand what the Holocaust meant for those communities and how it is remembered. A film screening, followed by a...
The shadow of Chornobyl. Ukraine thirty years after the disaster
The consequences of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster are still a permanent element of the economic, environmental and social situation of Ukraine. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
From fiction to gallows humour – how Chernobyl survivors are coping with trauma
It’s been exactly 30 years since the world’s worst nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine. Yet the trauma is still fresh. Exactly how the survivors handle this trauma has been the subject of a lot of psychological research – and it has identified a range of sometimes surprising defence mechanisms....
Violent Protests in Moldova
Anti-government demonstrations take a turn for the worse as many police injured. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukrainian court quashes rigged conviction of famous musician but leaves him in prison
It should have been victory against a terrible miscarriage of justice. Instead the Kyiv Court of Appeal’s ruling on April 20 has caused bemusement. The convictions against Ihor Zavadsky, a world-renowned accordionist and two other men were quashed, however Zavadsky remains in detention over four years after his original arrest on fabricated...
Why Has a Former Soviet Dissident Gone on Hunger-Strike in Britain?
My British friends are puzzled: why should one weaken oneself? Why jeopardize one’s already very poor health? Can’t things be resolved in court? No, says Vladimir Bukovsky, a man of outstanding courage and integrity, who has devoted his life to the struggle with the Soviet regime …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
New Russian Ombudsperson sees no political prisoners in Russia, only ‘extremists’
The Chief of Russia’s Investigative Committee has proposed criminalizing ‘denial’ of the fake ‘Crimea referendum’, and the country’s new Human Rights Ombudsperson plans to fight attempts by the West to ‘use’ human rights as a weapon “to destabilize Russia”’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
The Crimean Tatars: Under Threat
More than seventy years after Stalin deported the entire Crimean Tatar population to central Asia, Mustafa Dzhemilev, leader of the Crimean Tatar National Movement and former Soviet dissident, is once again banned from the peninsula. At this meeting, Dzhemilev will give an update on the situation of the Crimean Tatars. Speaker...
Obama’s Message to a Sober Germany
Transatlantic TakeBERLIN—As U.S. President Barack Obama today delivers the opening speech at the world’s largest industrial fair in Hannover, he will find a very different country than the one he saw upon his campaign visit in 2008. From the heights of excitement when Obama took office in 2009 to the depths of outrage when the NSA affair...
