Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Crimean Tatar Civic Activists arrested in new offensive against Crimea Solidarity
Russia has carried out new armed searches and arrests in occupied Crimea, with one of the targets Server Mustafaev, a highly-respected civic activist and coordinator of the Crimea Solidarity movement. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian prosecuted for posting that USSR invaded Poland in 1939 denied asylum in Czech Republic
The Czech authorities have found no grounds for giving Vladimir Luzgin political asylum, and say that they cannot “get into a discussion about historical facts”. No ‘discussion’ is, in fact, required, since 38-year-old Luzgin was prosecuted in Russia for reposting a text that quite correctly states that both Nazi Germany and the Soviet...
Film Industry from Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia Clean Up at Cannes
A Kazakh actress and a Polish director win prestigious awards at the film festival, as some of the region’s appraised films touch on sensitive social and political issues. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Watch List: May 21, 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...
EU Offers Ukraine New Micro-Finance Assistance
The European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs has approved a draft resolution granting Ukraine a new programme of macro-financial assistance up to 1 billion euros. The European Commission has been an active supporter of Ukraine for some time, disbursing a total of 2.8 billion euros in macro-financial assistance (MFA), the highest amount...
The End of the Annexation
The Kerch Bridge is the conclusion of Crimea’s incorporation into Russia, both physically and politically. Any haggling over on what terms Russia might return Crimea to Ukraine is now definitively null and void. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
KYIV ARBITRATION DAYS 2018: Think Big!
The Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA) has the pleasure of inviting you to attend the annual International Conference “KYIV ARBITRATION DAYS 2018: Think Big!” and check out the refreshed event format! No matter the changes, the starry cast of speakers is our traditional foundation! This year our key presenters include Emmanuel Gaillard, Partner at...
On the arrest of RIANovosti journalist Kiril Vyshynsky & the defence of “alternative news” in Ukraine
There has been a startling divergence in the reaction to the arrest of RIA Novosti Ukraine’s General Director Kirill Vyshynsky and the search of the agency’s offices. Prominent Ukrainians known for their opposition to censorship in any form stress only that the charges must be fully proven, while a number of western media watchdogs...
May 18, 2018 – the 74th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people
No honest man can be reconciled with what is happening in the territories occupied by Russia. Whatever ethnicity we are and to what religion we belong to, but today we are Crimean Tatars by blood, which flows from the veins. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Gaza Massacre Exposes Western Hypocrisy on Russia’s ‘Annexation’ of Crimea
This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a new 19-kilometer bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with mainland southern Russia. Thousands of kilometers away, in occupied Palestine, a massacre was being carried out by Israeli soldiers with full support of the United States as it opened a new embassy.The two events are not as disparate...