Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
’They Took Everything Away’: Russia’s Disabled Hit Hard By New Rules
Although he relies on a daily cocktail of drugs to survive, 5-year-old Daniil was struck off the disability register in October, leaving his family to fend for itself. Daniil is one of hundreds of thousands of patients who were denied disability benefits in 2015 under new measures that health advocates say are hurting many of Russia’s most...
Russian court overrules historical facts in show trial of two Ukrainians
Where the facts do not coincide with the Russian investigators’ charges against two Ukrainians on trial in Chechnya, it is the facts that are discarded, the witnesses who are sent awa …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
The Catastrophic Collapse of Independent Media in Crimea: The Last Two Years and the Road Ahead
The developments in today’s “Information Age” continue to raise scores of important questions. Is free media a human right? How does the media function in a closed society, where propaganda is more readily available than trustworthy information? How does the information leak out from these societies to the rest of the world, so that the...
Russian Nationalist Discourse Reemerges Ahead of Elections
Kazakhstan is taking final steps in preparation for the upcoming early parliamentary elections, scheduled for March 20. According to the Central Election Commission, as of March 4, the government has accommodated applications from 308 international observers and 116 media representatives. This year’s elections are widely expected to be the...
Ukraine, Turkey May Forge Anti-Russian Alliance in Black Sea
Russia, a common enemy since recently, has prompted Turkey and Ukraine, the big neighbors across the Black Sea, to step up political, economic and military ties. Bilateral contacts have been particularly intensive this year. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu flew to Kyiv in February, followed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s...
More Russian nuclear saber-rattling?
Reuters and the newspaper L’Obs reported last week that the French navy in January detected a Russian ballistic missile submarine off the French Atlantic coast in the Bay of Biscay. There was no military reason for that submarine to be there. Was this Moscow’s latest attempt at nuclear intimidation? The report was sourced to an...
“Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post–Cold War International Order” by Rajan Menon and Eugene Rumer
Rajan Menon and Eugene Rumer try to make sense of the Ukraine crisis for a general audience. The book’s major contribution lies in its attempt to provide what the authors term a “first cut at explaining the context, causes, and consequences” of a crisis that is still very much underway. …read more Source: Carnegie Council...
Is Russia’s National Character Authoritarian?
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and the public’s acquiescence in direct government control of news media have many people wondering if Russians are predisposed to authoritarianism. But survey evidence counsel caution about drawing conclusions about national character from isolated events. …read more Source: Project Syndicate...
UN Human Rights Chief Decries Reports Russia Office to Close
Closure would reflect the ‘shrinking space for dissent’ in Russia, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein says. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Director of the IWP participated in the meeting of the Consultative Committee of the Presidents of Ukraine and Poland
Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the IWP, participated in the meeting of the Consultative Committee of the Presidents of Ukraine and Poland held on March 3-4, 2016, in Warsaw. …read more Source: Institute of World...
