Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
How Crimean Tatars Stand Up to Repression in Russia-Occupied Crimea: Public Lecture and Documentary Screening. March 24, King’s College
Crimean Tatars hold an action on Independence Square in Kyiv to commemorate victims of the deportation of 1944. Public Lecture & Documentary Screening “Banished and Persecuted in their Own Land: How Crimean Tatars Stand Up to Repression in Russia-Occupied Crimea” Talk with Refat Chubarov, leader of Crimean Tatar people and Chairman of Mejlis...
Russian Teens Taught ‘Telegony’
Schoolchildren shown video blaming US for corrupting girls, urging boys to marry virgins to avoid being cuckolded. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Poland was the first victim of terrorism.
Defense Minister: Poland was the first victim of terrorism 03/13/2016 Polish defense minister said that Katyn and Smolensk disaster and crime in the context of contemporary conflicts were acts of terrorism against Poland. “Currently used terrorism against Western nations as a tool to provoke the flow of migration to destabilize the European...
Former Soviet political prisoners call on Holland to say yes to Ukraine’s European future
More than eighty former political prisoners from ex-Soviet republics have appealed to the people of the Netherlands to vote in favour of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian Lawyer demands Russia investigate Kremlin-backed militant leader’s war crimes in Donbas
Following the public admission by Igor Girkin [Strelkov] that he ordered extrajudicial killings during his period as military leader of the Kremlin-backed militants in Donbas, a St Petersburg lawyer has demanded that Russia initiates criminal proceedings against Girkin for committing what are undoubtedly war crimes in eastern Ukraine. …read...
Russian court orders Crimean political prisoner Afanasyev to be sent closer home
A Russian court in the far northern Komi Republic has accepted that holding Gennady Afanasyev in a prison 2,700 kilometres from his family violates his rights under the European Convention. . This unexpectedly positive move comes as fellow Crimean political prisoners Oleg Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko are being moved as far east as Moscow can...
The Cyber Attack on the Ukrainian Electoral Infrastructure: Another Warning
This commentary looks at the 23 December 2015 cyber-attack on the electrical network in Western Ukraine, which was most likely perpetrated by Russia. The text’s authors also explain why the attack may help legitimize the use of cyber warfare against states and briefly discuss why the Israeli electrical grid is particularly vulnerable to...
Prosecutor’s office announces suspicion to Mykhailo Yezhel
The Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) has delivered a notification of suspicion to Ukraine’s former Defense Minister Mykhailo Yezhel due to improper performance of his official duties, the PGO press service reported. The PGO mentioned the minister’s negligence when agreeing the list of military equipment owned by the Ukrainian...
Poroshenko, Juncker agree on next steps for implementation of EU visa-free regime
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko held a telephone conversation with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker on Friday, press secretary of the Ukrainian head of state Sviatoslav Tseholko has said. In particular, the two officials discussed the changes in the Ukrainian legislation related to electronic declaration and welcomed...
Ukraine-Style Hybrid War Unlikely in Latgale
On the second anniversary of the start of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the BBC gave its viewers a chance to “look inside the war room” with a program featuring a committee of former senior British military and diplomatic figures. In a quasi-documentary titled World War Three: Inside the War Room, the participants are faced with a...
