Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
After crushing press freedom, Russia tries to silence any dissent in occupied Crimea
“You can jail a person, but how do you imprison thoughts?” The question was put by Ukrainian activist Suleyman Kadyrov on 3 May during the appeal hearing against his 2-year suspended sentence for a comment on Facebook that Crimea is Ukraine. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Book Talk: The Politics of Police Reform
The police in the post-Soviet space remain one of the least reformed institutions, despite broader democratic transformations. Erica Marat will use her new book to examine the conditions under which a meaningful transformation of the police is likely to succeed, using case studies from Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. The panel will discuss...
The Iranian Rial Through the Eyes of the Black-Market Premium
Steve H. Hanke The Islamic Republic of Iran’s economy suffers internal, debilitating problems. Many anti-market seeds were sown by the last Shah. These seeds have been well tended and aggressively added to by Iran’s current theocratic regime. If these homemade economic problems weren’t enough, Iran’s foreign policy...
How to Eradicate Sovietism in Ukrainian Prisons
(Amendments to the Internal Prison and Pre-Trial Detention Centers Rules in the Light of International Standards) – This publications is Introduction to the book. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian Arms Budget Takes U-Turn
Moscow is bucking the world trend toward higher arms spending, but hold that Nobel Peace Prize nomination. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Congress Again Fails to Discover Collusion to Subvert the 2016 Election
There have been a number of developments in the endless inquiry into possible collusion between the Russian government and Donald Trump to manipulate perceptions and voting relating to the two presidential candidates in the November 2016 election. In particular, it has been alleged that the Russians were, with the connivance of some in the Trump...
No, Your Intelligence Is Actually Bad. Very Bad
About a year ago, one Evelyn Farkas boasted “we have good intelligence on Russia…”. She was an important functionary on Russian matters in the Obama Administration and was, therefore, much involved in “intelligence on Russia”. My immediate reaction when I read it was: No, you do not have good intelligence on Russia;...
Ukraine’s New Military Engagement in the Donbas
The gap between U.S. and EU views on Ukraine is hindering an effective Western strategy to end the war in the country’s eastern region. …read more Source: Carnegie...
Structural Reforms 0.0 – The case for strengthening institutions
The discussions on the future of Europe Attempts to reform the euro zone, to expand the euro zone and indeed to expand the EU are stalled by an obtrusive lack of trust. We had argued here that this lack of trust comes, at least in part, from a divergence in the quality of governance and the quality of institutions. Good institutions matter for...
Ukraine Is Worth Fighting For
Kyiv. The new conventional wisdom is that four years after Maidan, reforms have stalled in Ukraine and corruption has consumed the leadership. But this picture is hardly true. Certainly, the economy has stabilised, but economic growth stopped at 2.1 per cent last year. Yet a broad reform agenda is still proceeding, though everything is...