Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Fleeting Raptor
For the last several weeks, Air Force Secretary Deborah James has been touting the deployment of F-22 Raptor fighters – the best plane America owns – to Germany as “the strong side of the coin” in an effort to reassure Eastern Europeans who have seen their air space increasingly violated by Russian jets. “Russia’s military activity in the...
Ukraine Investigates Health Care Abuses as Torture
Since deciding the Convention against Torture applies to health facilities, Ukraine has helped patients get the palliative care they need. …read more Source: Open Society...
Kyiv Ex-Security Chief Held Over 2014 Maidan Killings
As Ukraine comes to terms with yesterday’s deadly clash in Kyiv, prosecutors are slowly closing in on the officials behind the savage repressions in 2014. From the Kharkhiv Human Rights Protection Group. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine Report: A Look Inside East And West
September 1, 2015 │Journalist Igor Rotar traversed the country during a 3-month trip. Read the first installment of his four-part series, from the conflict zone of eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine’s New Party of Power
The merger of President Poroshenko’s party with the UDAR party of Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko is another step in the consolidation of power by the Ukrainian leader. Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front may be the next in line for absorption. But recent Ukrainian history shows that these big united parties have all ended in...
Ismayilova, Fierce Critic of Aliev Regime, Jailed
Plus, Tajikistan bans Islamist party and a blacklisted Russian singer is given permission for EU entry on medical grounds. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Putin’s deceptive pause: What are Russia’s next steps in Ukraine?
A deceptive late-summer pause has settled over the Ukraine crisis. At least, in the coverage of it. For many weeks now, the war in the Donbas has slipped off the front page. Although leaders such as Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko still search for an acceptable formula to end the war, it has...
Hungary Arrests Migrant Traffickers
More tension with neighboring countries as Hungary stops trains, ejects migrants. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Nationalists Assault Ukraine’s Parliament
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Nationalists Assault Ukraine’s Parliament, Hungary Arrests Migrant Traffickers
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