Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
How Moscow Is Subverting Ukraine’s Bid for Freedom
Rather than separating the government from the oligarch class, or demolishing the old state apparatus, the top priority was to ensure that everyone — no matter how unsavory — would stay in the fight against the Russians. FP: How Moscow Is Subverting Ukraine’s Bid for Freedom …read more Source: The American Center for a European...
Poroshenko signs “party dictatorship” law
Today, Feb. 25, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed notorious “party dictatorship” bill No. 3700 into law, which will let parties delete party candidates from their election lists after elections, according to an announcement on the page of the law on the parliament’s official website. Despite the fact that lawmakers had refused...
Poroshenko signs law ratifying NATO representation status in Ukraine
President Petro Poroshenko signed law on ratification of the agreement between the Government of Ukraine and NATO on the status of the NATO mission to Ukraine. The document was signed on September 22, 2015 in the course of the visit of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to Ukraine. The abovementioned agreement provides for the establishment...
Ukraine’s Antimonopoly Committee files case against Privatbank
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has opened a case against public joint-stock company commercial bank PrivatBank, the committee’s press service has reported. The committee said that it asked PrivatBank to provide information as part of two ‘oil’ investigations, but the bank refused to do this. “The Antimonopoly Committee filed...
Forget the Voters: Ukraine’s Leaders Bring in ‘Party Dictatorship’
President Poroshenko has ignored calls to veto a bill which has been condemned as a violation of electoral rights which could be used to enable parties to ignore voters’ choice and bring in obedient MPs, or those who pay most …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Militants again refuse to release Luhansk journalist Maria Varfolomeyeva
Kremlin-backed militants in the Luhansk oblast had promised to release 31-year-old Maria Varfolomeyeva on Feb 26, but yet again failed to do so. The Luhansk journalist who has been held hostage since for 13 months is said to be in a very bad physical and psychological state. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
A brief description of KHPG strategic litigations for 2015
A brief description of 264 cases of the KHPG Strategic Litigations Center is given …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
US Plotting Color Revolt in Russia?
The annual meeting of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which is the successor organization to the Soviet-era KGB is an important occasion to take the temperature in the ‘East-West’ relations. (The Cold War cliche is becoming useful once again.) President Vladimir Putin’s customary address at the FSB meeting was the...
How Russia Evades Responsibility for War Crimes in Syria
By @JettGoldsmith Since the start of its bombing campaign in Syria in late 2015, Russia has racked up an impressive list of accomplishments: over 1,000 civilians killed, over two dozen hospitals and aid buildings bombed, and numerous instances of illegal cluster bomb use on civilian populations – all of which puts the Russian Federation squarely...
Six Takeaways from Today’s Dutch Safety Board MH17 Response
On February 25, the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) published responses to questions asked by the Dutch Parliament on February 4 and 10, along with its response to a letter written by Oleg Storchevoy, the Deputy Director of Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency. Many of the questions posed by the Dutch Parliament concern the air traffic control...
