Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
,Another Roma camp set alight, this time with gunshots & racist media report
There has been another arson attack on a Roma camp in Ukraine, the third in just over a month, with this one accompanied both by shooting and by an appallingly xenophobic report on the Facebook page of a local media publication. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean Tatar National Congress delegate seized and tortured on anniversary of Ervin Ibragimov’s abduction
Asan Egiz, delegate of the Qurultay [National Congress] of the Crimean Tatar people, was abducted on 23 May by men in police uniform. This was a chillingly brazen repeat of the abduction and disappearance exactly two years ago of another prominent Crimean Tatar Ervin Ibragimov with the only difference being that Asan Egiz was, thankfully, found,...
Russia admits complicity in abduction of Crimean Tatar activist through refusal to investigate
It is two years since 31-year-old Ervin Ibragimov, member of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars, was abducted by men in road patrol uniform from near his home in Bakhchysarai. Despite video footage showing the abduction, the Russian occupation regime effectively never carried out a real investigation, which has only...
Under No Illusions
As new textbooks on Russian history, close to the Kremlin playbook, are rolled out in the country’s high schools, some teachers make clear that they are not so easily fooled. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The US overtakes Hong Kong to rank first among world’s most competitive economies
The US has broken back into the lead. shutterstock.comThe US has leapfrogged Singapore and Hong Kong to top IMD’s latest World Competitiveness Rankings. The top five most competitive economies in the world remain the same since 2016, but their order has changed. With the US at the top, Hong Kong has dropped one spot to second and Singapore...
The Paradoxes of Polish-Ukrainian Relations
BY WOJCIECH KONONCZUK The narrative that Polish-Ukrainian relations are in crisis is too simplistic. An obvious problem lies in the two countries’ different perceptions of the tragic past and the politicization of history, but less recognized is that they are engaging in an unprecedented level of cooperation in other spheres. Poland’s...
Putin: Negative Reflection in Western Eyes
Putin: leader of nationalist Russia, master of “realpolitik” — leverage, punishment, reward — the Boss of bosses, capricious and absolute. Whatever the game, why play one side or the other when you can own the whole board? Medieval Political Absolutism v Modern Democratic Societies KGB Colonel, President, Emperor Putin has taken Russia back the...
Mike Pompeo Hurls ‘Assassination’ Charges at Iran, but Nobody Knows What the Hell he’s Talking About
America’s chief foreign negotiator has a message for Iran: stop assassinating people.The problem is, nobody from security experts to Iranian dissidents has any idea what the hell he means.The Guardian picks up the story: Mike Pompeo’s claim that the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is carrying out ‘assassination operations in...
Social care homes in Ukraine
Talking to a person who entered the social care home labyrinth in Ukraine because of a mishap in his or her life, who understands full well that there is no exit except after death, leaves a permanent mark in your memory (Opening words to a conference on May 18, 2018) …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia turns to abduction & torture to try to discredit the Crimean Tatar Mejlis
Oleksandr Steshenko, the young Ukrainian who disappeared after being seized by the FSB in occupied Crimea, has been shown on Russian television ‘confessing’ to involvement in an ‘extremist group’ supposedly created by the Head of the Mejlis, or self-governing body, of the Crimean Tatar people. This alleged ‘plot’ has been made...
