Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Maradona Heads for Belarus
The Argentine football legend’s career takes another startling twist. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine Accuses RIA Novosti Editor of Treason
Authorities say the Russian state news agency participates in the Kremlin’s “hybrid information war.” …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Poland pushes for UN mission at Ukraine-Russia border
Poland’s president on Thursday (17 May) asked the UN Security Council to deploy a UN peacekeeping force to Ukraine throughout a zone of conflict that Western powers accuse Russia of fomenting. …read more Source:...
Riyadh’s Missile Defense Systems: Strategic Opportunities
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched during a successful intercept test, photo by Ralph Scott – Missile Defense Agency – US DoD via Wikimedia CommonsBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 838, May 18, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Saudi Arabia needs missile defense systems to protect its territory from...
Crimean Tatars Detained for Honouring the Victims of the Deportation
Repressive measures under Russian occupation on the anniversary of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people began early this year with the detention on the evening of 17 May of around 20 young people taking part in the traditional youth action ‘Light a flame in your heart’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
The Only Way to Improve Ukraine’s Courts
Right now, not only the future of anticorruption and judicial reforms is at stake. All the country’s other successes depend on whether we get the anticorruption court right this time …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
European Lobbying Could Save Russian Industrial Giant
Complaints from European governments and multinationals apparently persuaded White House to take a second look at sanctions against Oleg Deripaska’s Rusal. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
In Occupied Crimea, New Echoes of a Dark Past
© kremlin.ru In Occupied Crimea, New Echoes of a Dark PastGina S. LentineMay 17, 2018Crimeans struggle to exercise their basic human rights amid Russian persecution. …read more Source: Freedom...
One-third of the world’s nature reserves are under threat from humans
People transporting gasoline by boat in Indonesia’s Kayan Mentarang National Park. ESCapade/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAIn the 146 years since Yellowstone National Park in the northwestern United States became the world’s first protected area, nations around the world have created more than 200,000 terrestrial nature reserves. Together...
Russia-and-the-west
A strategic confrontation between Russia and the West has been under way for at least four years: for understandable reasons, given Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interference in the internal politics of the United States and some European countries, and his military adventurism in Ukraine and Syria. Yet Russia and the West are both...