Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Historian: Why Reporters Are Heroes of Our Time
I call reporters the heroes of our time. Why is that word “heroes” not an exaggeration but rather a very precise description of how important that service — reporting — is to our moment? An investigative reporter is someone who is trying to find out the way the world actually is and, in the service of trying to find those facts, a reporter is...
The public has a vital role to play in preventing future cyber attacks
Numerous cyber attacks in recent years have targeted common household devices, such as routers. ShutterstockUp to 400 Australian organisations may have been snared in a massive hacking incident detailed today. The attack, allegedly engineered by the Russian government, targeted millions of government and private sector machines globally via...
Presidential Administration Says Law Requiring Activists to Disclose Assets Is Invalid and Unenforceable, but Ukraine’s Activists Aren’t Buying It
For more than a year, Ukraine’s government and activists have been at odds over a March 2017 law that requires activists to disclose their assets online in the same way that public officials do …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukrainian human rights activist & journalist detained as SBU revenge for criticism?
Oleksiy Svyetikov was detained at a checkpoint near Sloviansk on 29 March because his name had been placed on a list of ‘illegal armed bands’. Oleksiy Svyetikov was detained at a checkpoint near Sloviansk on 29 March after his name inexplicably appeared on the ‘List of illegal armed bands’ drawn up in connection with the...
Russia seeks secret trial of tortured Ukrainian accused of Crimea ‘sabotage plot’
‘Secret documents’ have been cited in Russian-occupied Crimea to justify holding the trial of Yevhen Panov behind closed doors. Since no secret material was ever mentioned to either Panov, or his lawyer, this may well simply be the latest attempt to conceal the lack of any substance to the charges against the Ukrainian …read more...
Watch List: April 16, 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...
FTAC: Brief Comment: Optics on Frenemies Moscow and Washington
” . . . they are making a show to other countries . . . “ True. The action taken to forestall additional Chemical Weapons (CW) attacks was conducted as a deliberate and open demonstration of capability (imho) and not as one blow among others launched without warning in the chaos and fury of combat. Russo-American cooperation in “optics” has been...
Sergiy Vakarin demonstrated new space technologies during the Space Week in Ukraine
Photo by Boris Godlevsky UkraineIS held several events within the framework of the Odyssey Foundation’s Space Week in Ukraine. At the opening of the Space Week in Kyiv’s iHUB on April 11, Sergiy Vakarin and Alex Planida demonstrated SecureIO projects (Augmented reality and Cybersecurity) that were already featured in EU countries....
In Ukraine a life sentence is for life even when you’re innocent
An important European Court of Human Rights ruling has prompted Ukrainian human rights groups to demand a Constitutional Court review of the current lack of real mechanisms for releasing people sentenced to life imprisonment. The move is particularly important given strong grounds in very many cases for believing that life prisoners are either...
Russian tanks entering Ukraine that the OSCE is mandated to miss
Russia has spent four years denying responsibility for the tanks and huge arsenal of weapons provided to Kremlin-controlled militants in Donbas, and using OSCE observers to purportedly back this denial. While this is not the observers’ fault, the vast expanse of border area physically beyond their scope, as well as the clamps placed on what...