Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The UK’s global engagement begins in Europe
The advocates of Brexit like to paint an optimistic picture of a post-EU Britain as an active, globally engaged power. ‘Who has the parochial mindset here,’ asks Dan Hannan, ‘those who want a global role of the United Kingdom, or those who think that our role must be mediated by Federica Mogherini, the EU’s Foreign Minister?’...
Europe betrays Ukraine’s ‘heavenly hundred’
They died wearing EU ribbons, hoping that one day their corrupt government might reform and Ukraine might be admitted into the ever closer union. Commemorating the one-year anniversary of the killings in Kiev last year, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wisely tried to lower the nation’s expectations. Politico: Europe betrays...
Two Years After Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution, Is The West Betraying Its Values?
This year we are struck by how different things feel. Many of the promises of the revolution remain unfulfilled. Many of the dangers of Russian interference have only become more real. interpretermag: Two Years After Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution, Is The West Betraying Its Values? …read more Source: The American Center for a...
Cometh the Hour; Cometh the Man?
There are two famous Soviet sayings that usually went hand in hand: что делать и кто виноват? (what is to be done and who is to blame?). The normal sequence was as follows: first to determine that really, nothing was to be done; then find someone to pin the blame on. Ukraine was a part […] …read more Source: The American Center for a...
Ukrainians Mark Maidan, Nationalists Ransack Russian Banks
Thousands attend ceremonies on second anniversary of deadliest day of protests against former pro-Russian government, mark martyrdom of slain ‘heavenly hundred.’ …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Late Russian Anti-Doping Chief Planned to Expose Cheating
Nikita Kamayev had contacted a British newspaper offering to reveal the full extent of illegal performance-enhancing drugs in Russian sport. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
How Cities You’ve Never Heard of will Shape the Future
The world is urbanizing at breakneck speed. But not all regions are moving at the same speed. Most population growth today and tomorrow will occur in the sprawling cities and slums of Africa and Asia. Just three countries — China, India and Nigeria — will account for 40 percent of global growth over the next decade. Meanwhile, many cities in...
The Self-Government Body of the Crimean Tatar People must not be banned
Russia’s attempt to ban the Mejlis amounts to the ethnic, cultural and political discrimination of the Crimean Tatar people. Please endorse this protest by human rights groups …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian convicted of ’inciting enmity’ for criticizing Putin’s war against Ukraine
A court in Yekaterinburg has found 46-year-old Yekaterina Vologzheninova guilty of ‘inciting ethnic enmity’ for reposting or ‘liking’ material on social networks critical of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and war in Donbas. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
In Syria there are about 12.000 Russian soldiers who participated in the genocide of the Syrian people.
Gen. Ahmed Rahal: in Syria there are about 12,000 Russian soldiers who participated in the genocide of the Syrian people 02/21/2016 Gen. Ahmed Rahal – former senior Syrian officer, a former deputy defense minister of Syria, and the commander of the fleet. In 2012, he publicly refused to perform criminal orders of the regime of Bashar al-Assad and...
