Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
No World Cup as usual as Oleg Sentsov lays his life on the line, demanding the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners
Ukrainian filmmaker and Kremlin hostage Oleg Sentsov has declared an indefinite hunger strike with his sole demand being the release of all the Ukrainian political prisoners held by Russia. It seems he has been planning this move for the last month and a half and he told his lawyer: “If I die before or during the World Cup, there will be...
Crimean Tatar who sued Putin over annexation of Crimea ‘deported’ to Uzbekistan
Russia has sent Crimean Tatar Nedim Khalilov against his will to Uzbekistan after illegally taking him from his Crimean home and holding him in a ‘centre for foreigners’ in Russia for 18 months. This cynical deportation of a 58-year-old who has no links with Uzbekistan can be viewed as reprisal for Khalilov’s attempt to bring legal...
Russia Crows Over Crimean Bridge Opening
Engineering feat will simplify life in Russian-controlled peninsula, but will also likely worsen relations with Kyiv. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia’s Role in the 2008 Russo-Georgian War
After a brief surge of sympathy for Georgia during the 2008 Russo-Georgian war, outsiders reached a general consensus of shared blame, exemplified by the EU fact-finding mission’s Tagliavini report. In retrospect, with an established pattern of Russian aggression in Ukraine and Syria, prize-winning journalist Yulia Latynina will revisit the...
Fighting Anti-Roma Hate, One Story at a Time
One Ukraine community’s response to an anti-Roma group offers a heartening example to all those who are trying to fight bigotry with compassion, dialogue, and understanding. …read more Source: Open Society...
Russia: Telegram block leads to widespread assault on freedom of expression online (UPDATED)
53 international and Russian human rights, media and Internet freedom organisations, strongly condemn the attempts by the Russian Federation to block the Internet messaging service Telegram. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Georgian MP Leads OSCE Mission in Ukraine
A high-level delegation from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly led by George Tsereteli, a Georgian MP (pictured above), has stressed the need for a UN peace-keeping mission to be deployed to Ukraine to help end the fighting in the eastern part of the country and to make full implementation of the Minsk Agreements possible. In meetings with...
The Editor, on a landmark for The Conversation
View from the London office, with a Conversation logo superimposed over some of our local flora. Khalil A. Cassimally, Author providedFive years ago, the first content commissioned by The Conversation in the UK went live. At the time, the project attracted some attention from other media. Most was pretty welcoming and positive. But not all of it...
Russian military ‘overseers’ often issued the orders to torture hostages in Donbas
Two Ukrainian human rights groups have compiled an important report documenting crimes committed by militants of the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DPR], as well as evidence of the deployment of Russian military personnel in Donbas during 2014 and 2015 …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean political prisoner on hunger strike subjected to new ‘trial’ & threats of reprisals for ‘free will’
Crimean political prisoner Volodymyr Balukh was in ‘court’ again on 15 May, looking gaunt and tired after two months of hunger strike in protest at his first prison sentence on overtly falsified charges. Balukh has faced constant harassment under Russian occupation because pf his pro-Ukrainian position and the Ukrainian flag he refused to...
