Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Watch List: April 23, 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...
Russia Plays Cat and Mouse With Telegram
Google, Apple, Amazon could be roped in as Moscow tries to enforce a shutdown of the popular app. …read more Source: Transitions Online...