Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Cryptocurrencies and the Kremlin
By Anna Semler Cryptocurrency has emerged as an exciting new medium of exchange with rapid changes in value. As brands like Bitcoin become household names, questions also arise around the different uses for cryptocurrency and growing calls for regulation. The U.S. government must develop rules to protect against illicit cryptocurrency activity,...
Podcast: What Are the Odds of Nuclear War? A Conversation With Seth Baum and Robert de Neufville
What are the odds of a nuclear war happening this century? And how close have we been to nuclear war in the past? Few academics focus on the probability of nuclear war, but many leading voices like former US Secretary of Defense, William Perry, argue that the threat of nuclear conflict is growing. On this month’s podcast, Ariel spoke with...
Russia Extends Detention for Ukrainian Teen Terror Suspect
Family says Pavlo Hryb was abducted by the Russian FSB when he visited Belarus to meet a Russian girl. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Watch List: April 30, 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...
Enlargement and our fundamental values
Recently, more attention has been given to the Enlargement file. After having presented its Strategy for the Balkans last February, on 17 April the European Commission came forward with its annual Enlargement Package. Onthat same occasion the Commission proposed to the Council to open membership negotiations with (the Former Yugoslav Republic of)...
The EU has a duty to the population of Donbas
In Donbass, Ukraine is experiencing a catastrophe comparable with the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Now as then, it is urgent to restore confidence of the affected people in the state and their trust to each other, argues Sergii Parashyn. Sergii… …read more Source:...
Syria’s Growing Chemical Weapons Entanglement
One of the munitions used in Ghouta on January 22, 2018. Image via Twitter @Azm_LensBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 816, April 30, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The chemical weapons (CW) possessed and employed by Syria since it undertook to completely get rid of them have become an increasingly tangled web over the past year. This has many...
Critically ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner denied hospitalization
Without immediate hospitalization, Uzair Abdullaev’s life is in danger, yet the Russian-controlled SIZO prison staff in Simferopol are simply injecting him with antibiotics that only fleetingly reduce his temperature …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukrainian-Belarusian journalist seized in Belarus could face 6-year sentence
38-year-old Dzmitry Halko was arrested on 22 April on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border and is facing charges of ‘attacking a police officer’, with many assuming the arrest to be in fact linked with his role in Belarusian Partisan and other independent Belarusian publications. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Watch List Findings: April 28, 2018
What follows are the preliminary findings for issues identified in the daily Watch Lists this week. We are only sending findings that we regard as significant or potentially significant to keep this list manageable. We have findings for all the Watch List items. Should you be interested in findings not listed here, please contact us and we will...
