Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Four things you need to know about Russian media manipulation strategies
The crisis embroiling the West and Russia over the apparent use of chemical weapons in the English cathedral town of Salisbury can tell us a lot about how the Putin administration is becoming more and more adept at manipulating media coverage of events to gain advantage, both at home and abroad. The furious accusations levelled against Moscow by...
In Memory: Yuri Soloshenko, the Kremlin’s oldest Ukrainian hostage
Yuri Soloshenko, Ukrainian pensioner and one of the first hostages of Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine, has died less than two years after his release from Russian captivity . …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine’s Ombudsman takes unprecedented and contentious step in defence of LGBT rights
Ukraine’s Anti-Discrimination Ombudsperson has set an important, though controversial, precedent by demanding that a petition purporting to ‘defend family values’ be removed from the President’s official website as in violation of the rights of sexual minorities and inciting discrimination. The petition in question “asked for...
Narratives and Perceptions of the EU in Ukraine, Israel and Palestine
Invitation Only Research Event 17 April 2018 – 2:00pm to 3:30pmAdd to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London Natalia Chaban, Professor of European Union …read more Source: Chatham...
Russia Threatens Sanctions Over Latvia’s Education Reforms
Riga makes Latvian the only language of instruction in high schools, triggering accusations of violating minority rights from the Russian parliament. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Six People Sentenced for Plotting to Kill Moldovan Oligarch
Decision comes a year after a series of international raids allegedly foiled an attempt on the life of Vladimir Plahotniuc. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Vloggers With a Cause
Belarusian YouTube vloggers are free to talk about what they want – at their own risk. From Belarus Digest. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
From Poster Child to Pariah: Poland Embraces Illiberalism
Over the course of the past two years, onlookers have been confounded at the speed with which Poland, a darling of shock therapy economics and liberal institutionalization, has spiraled towards illiberal democracy. Since the 2015 parliamentary election, the country has made a dramatic political U-turn, which has hurt its diplomatic efforts and...
The Return of Imperialism: The Islamic Republic of Iran
From right, Ruhollah Khomeini, Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili, and Ali Khamenei – 1980s, image via Wikimedia CommonsBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 786, April 4, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Moscow and Beijing are pulling the world back into twentieth-century geopolitics, but Iran is pulling it even farther backward in time: to the Age of...
Petition regarding the ongoing failure to allow Azerbaijani journalist Fikret Huseynli to leave Ukraine
The Prosecutor’s office has effectively stolen Azerbaijani journalist Fikret Huseynli’s passport despite a court ruling which makes it possible for him to leave Ukraine …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...