Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
This isn’t ‘information warfare’. It’s a battle between truth and falsehood
The British government is responsible for the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, then falsely accusing the Kremlin of the crime and killing two guinea pigs in order to cover up the damning evidence. Meanwhile, a purported chemical attack on civilians in the Syrian city of Douma was a hoax concocted by British agents in order to...
No more than 3% of police torture cases in Ukraine reach the courts
Two and a half thousand Ukrainians who sought help from medical institutions in 2017 reported that their injuries had been caused by police officers. While the number of such cases is on the rise, the number of criminal proceedings initiated by the prosecutor’s office has decreased …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia tries to ‘give itself’ more Ukrainian territory
The Russian-controlled ‘government’ in occupied Crimea has decided to ‘hand over’ Ukraine’s Tuzla Island to Russia. The move is linked with Russia’s construction of a bridge between Russia and Crimea, and is legally meaningless …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine Matters: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Join the VOLYA Institute for Contemporary Law and Society and the NYU Program in International Relations for a Lecture-Discussion with His Excellency Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, titled “Ukraine Matters: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.” Ambassador Yelchenko will discuss the most...
Watch List: April 23, 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...
Russia Plays Cat and Mouse With Telegram
Google, Apple, Amazon could be roped in as Moscow tries to enforce a shutdown of the popular app. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Far Reaches of US Soft Power
Originally produced on April 16, 2018 for Mauldin Economics, LLC By George Friedman and Xander Snyder The Russian ruble, Turkish lira, and Iranian rial are all falling in value. What do they have in common? The United States is in some way involved in their decline. It’s a sign of US power: Even as its military becomes more limited and it...
History: From coal to climate
Energy has played a major role in the history of the European Union. Coal was the first fuel to be exploited; signed in 1951, the Treaty of Paris established the European Coal and Steel Community. With the signing of the Euratom treaty in 1957 to promote nuclear power, energy was once again the backbone of European integration. The economic base...
IFC & Germany to Boost Ukrainian Energy Efficiency
IFC – a member of the World Bank Group, the European Union, and Germany signed agreements on April 23 to support the Ukrainian government’s work in reducing energy waste and greenhouse gas emissions in the residential sector. Under the agreements, the IFC will initially manage up to 53 million euros of funding from the EU (43 million euros)...
Ukrainian neo-Nazi C14 vigilantes drive out Roma families, burn their camp
The far-right C14 organization has carried out an operation, possibly in cooperation with a Kyiv district administration, which resulted in Roma families being forced to flee their camp on Lysa Hora in Kyiv …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
