Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Getting Out from In-Between
The West and Russia currently find themselves locked in a dangerous competition. Meanwhile, other states in the region, including Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia, remain to varying degrees unstable, unreformed, and rife with conflict. The approaches to regional order seem likely to exacerbate these problems. The panelists will discuss these...
Russia’s Active Measures Architecture: Task and Purpose
Russia’s latest iteration of the Soviet-era tactic of “active measures” has mesmerized Western audiences and become the topic de jour for national security analysts. In my last post, I focused on the Kremlin’s campaign to influence the U.S. elections from 2014 to 2016 through the integration of offensive cyber hacking, overt...
EU sanctions against Russia : What’s next?
Written by Martin Russell, DG EPRS Policy round table – ‘ EU sanctions against Russia : What’s next? ‘ Four years after Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, the issue of sanctions against Moscow is more topical than ever. Relations between Russia and the West have continued to deteriorate to a level not seen since the end of the...
Russian Big-City Mayor Quits in Protest
The popular, controversial Yevgeny Roizman is one of few regional politicians willing to take on the ruling establishment. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
What If North Korea Makes an Offer Trump Can’t Refuse?
Doug Bandow North Korea has just reminded the United States that it is intent on negotiating with the United States, not accepting an administration diktat, especially one explicitly modeled after the Libya deal, which ultimately ended in the gruesome death of Muammar el-Qaddafi, who agreed to its terms. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently...
Crimean Tatar Civic Activists arrested in new offensive against Crimea Solidarity
Russia has carried out new armed searches and arrests in occupied Crimea, with one of the targets Server Mustafaev, a highly-respected civic activist and coordinator of the Crimea Solidarity movement. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian prosecuted for posting that USSR invaded Poland in 1939 denied asylum in Czech Republic
The Czech authorities have found no grounds for giving Vladimir Luzgin political asylum, and say that they cannot “get into a discussion about historical facts”. No ‘discussion’ is, in fact, required, since 38-year-old Luzgin was prosecuted in Russia for reposting a text that quite correctly states that both Nazi Germany and the Soviet...
Film Industry from Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia Clean Up at Cannes
A Kazakh actress and a Polish director win prestigious awards at the film festival, as some of the region’s appraised films touch on sensitive social and political issues. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Watch List: May 21, 2018
The items listed below represent potential emerging issues that our analysts are tracking. These can be long term or short term, but will be updated daily. If an item on our Watch List becomes critical, we will email you a full analysis explaining its significance. Each Saturday, we will follow up our daily Watch List for each week with our...
