Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Protesting Tatars Block Roads to Ukraine from Crimea
Tatars stage economic blockade to protest violations of minority rights since Russian annexation. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russian Soldiers Refuse ‘Secret’ Deployment to Syria
Refusniks claim army official said they’d be sent to Latakia under a ‘secret decree’ and may have to fight. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia will be blackmailing Ukraine with possible invasion for a long time
Russia is building not one but several military bases near the Ukrainian border. This was stated by Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk, informs the news agency Radio Liberty. “This is definitely not the last base that will be built there. As we can see, Russia will continue...
Russian involvement in Syria doesn’t mean the loss of control over Ukraine
Not that Russia’s support for the Assad regime is new, but now it’s official. And with the giant Antonov strategic airlifters flying daily to Syria, the satellite footage of airfield expansion and construction, and the reports of Russian tanks, artillery and personnel already in Syria, this is the biggest deployment of Russian forces...
Imperial Gamble : Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War
Brookings Institution Press 2015 230pp. Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine. The...
La mémoire condamnée, ou le patrimoine mondial entre négligences et destructions
Janvier 2015, une vieille rue d’Alep, un des sites classés au Patrimoine Mondial. Hosam Katan/ReutersAu coeur des villes syriennes, le “tunnel-bombing” est l’une des tactiques de guerre urbaine utilisées par les milices jihadistes telles que Jabha Shamiya. Au-delà de son coût humain, cette stratégie participe également à la...
Albanian Marijuana Goes Up in Smoke
Tirana claims to have destroyed 99 percent of the country’s cannabis plants this year. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Bulgaria Scraps Statute of Limitations for Communist-Era Crimes
Cases which could now be investigated include 1978 ‘umbrella killing’ in London. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Croatia Closes Border After Two-Day Migrant Influx
Orban plans to build another fence, this time along Hungary-Croatia border. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Police Clash with Migrants at Croatia, Hungary Borders with Serbia
Use of tear gas, water cannon at Serbian border ‘unacceptable,’ says Ban-Ki Moon. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
