Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Outside the Box: How Non-Profits and NGOs Reshape the Ukrainian Tech Scene
During a recent expert discussion around EWDN’s CEE startup and VC research, I asked Yuliya Sychikova, Associate with AVentures Capital, what has changed in the Ukrainian tech startup ecosystem. More and more young millennial entrepreneurs are launching their own product companies instead of working for someone else in software outsourcing...
Billa to Open 10 New Stores in Bulgaria
Austrian supermarket chain Billa, which already employs 4500 people in Bulgaria, plans to open between eight and ten new stores in three cities – Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna. This move is expected to raise revenue by 9-10 per cent and create between 320 and 450 new jobs, with every new store employing approximately 40-50 people. Boyko Sachanski –...
Online disinformation and the EU’s response
Written by Naja Bentzen, © ommbeu / Fotolia The proliferation of disinformation – including false news posing as factual stories – became increasingly visible in the context of the crisis in Ukraine, gaining notoriety as a global challenge during the 2016 United States presidential election campaign. While the EU is stepping up its efforts to...
Why this round of U.S. protectionism is different
This opinion was previously published in Caixin The escalation of the Sino-U.S. trade war has been worrying the world over the past few weeks. After the Washington’s announcement of punitive tariffs on 1,333 Chinese products with a value of up to $60 billion under the Section 301 of Trade Act, Beijing responded very quickly with a...
Armenia: Not Another Color Revolution
By Nora T. Kalinskij It took less than two weeks of protests for Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan, the former two-term president who had previously said he would not take the premiership, to step down from the position. The leader of the protests last week called it a “velvet revolution,” a reference to the pro-democracy color revolutions...
Call for applications: 6th European Neighbourhood Policy PhD Summer School
The European Neighbourhood Policy Chairat the Natolin campus of the College of Europe and the European Forum Alpbach (EFA) welcome applications for the 6thENP PhD Summer School entitled: “The European Neighbourhood Policy: Principled Pragmatism and the Quest for Resilience” The PhD Summer School will take place from 16 to 21 August 2018 in the...
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...
