Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Denuclearization Again? Lessons from Ukraine’s Decision to Disarm
Apr 19, 2018The authors offer three insights from Ukraine’s path to denuclearization that may help deal with today’s proliferation challenges. …read more Source: Belfer Center for Science and International...
Belarus Turns the Screws on Online Media
Journalists push back against proposed amendments that would complicate the work of online reporters and impose restrictions on social media users. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Fears of Radiation Leak From Flooded Ukraine Mine
Kyiv and Washington are calling on Ukrainian separatists not to stop the pumps in a mine where a small nuclear bomb was detonated in 1979. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Georgia Looks to the NATO Brussels Summit
Since 1949, NATO’s membership has increased from 12 to 29 countries. Successive rounds of NATO enlargement have enhanced international security. Euro-Atlantic integration itself has also continuously fostered reform and ensured the stability necessary for prosperity. In theory, NATO’s door is open to all democracies that share...
Economic Recovery in Belarus Accelerates
The speed of economic recovery in Belarus has accelerated in early 2018, but the foundations for solid growth need to be strengthened, says the latest World Bank Economic Update on Belarus. The economic outlook remains challenging due to external financing needs and unaddressed domestic structural bottlenecks. Improved household consumption and...
Assad is in a weaker position than most think
For all the furore about last week’s missile strikes on Syria, they were were strikingly limited in scope. Far from the “big price” boasted about by Donald Trump, the attacks focused very narrowly on three sites linked to the Assad regime’s chemical weapons programme. Targets were chosen both to avoid collateral damage and, more...
Why Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Drive Is Failing
After the victory of the Euromaidan, the demand for combating corruption drastically increased, and new institutions were established to fight high-level corruption. However, there is an ongoing conflict between two of the newly established agencies that greatly diminishes their ability to fight corruption …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Four violent deaths in Crimean prison where Russia is holding political prisoners
As of 19 April, there have been four unnatural deaths in the Simferopol SIZO [remand prison] in Russian-occupied Crimea. This SIZO has become notorious over the past four years for the ever-increasing number of political prisoners held there in appalling conditions, …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Murder trial but no probe into police behaviour during anti-Roma pogrom in Loshchynivka
Objections have been quashed against holding the high-profile trial of a young man accused of the rape and murder of a child behind closed doors. The trial is of public interest because of the anti-Roma pogrom which followed it, and because there are grounds for believing that the defendant is innocent. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Azeri-Dutch Journalist Dodges Baku’s Extradition Bid
Ukraine decides against sending reporter back to Azerbaijan, where he faces charges similar to those thrown at other regime critics. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
