Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russia to police history textbooks for ‘correct’ position on events in Ukraine & especially Crimea
Russia’s Federation Council (the upper house of parliament) has issued instructions to check out history textbooks for their coverage of events in Ukraine in 2013-14, with the main concern being Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea, which Moscow calls ‘the reunification of Crimea’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Russian Justice Ministry Warns RFE/RL As Duma Passes New Media Restrictions
Russia’s lower house of parliament has unanimously approved legislation that would authorize the government to designate media outlets receiving funding from abroad as “foreign agents.” …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Bureau faces immediate paralysis if Poroshenko signs dangerous bill
The Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine [NABU] predicts that its work will be totally paralyzed already in November if President Petro Poroshenko signs the Law on Judicial Reform in its present form …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship
A stark difference between today’s Washington and when I was here as a young Associated Press correspondent in the late 1970s and the early 1980s is that then – even as the old Cold War was heating up around the election of Ronald Reagan – there were prominent mainstream journalists who looked askance at the excessive demonization of the...
3 reasons to study the Russian Revolution today, according to Dutch lovers of liberty
The Bolshevik Revolution was one of the epochal events of modern history, continuing to affect the world in which we live 28 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Modern governments and systems of economics were created in imitation, or opposition, of its fundamental tenets. Continue Reading… Related posts:The Russian Punk Band and...
Here Is How America Can Bring Peace to Ukraine
Doug Bandow The Trump administration reportedly plans to propose a peacekeeping force for Ukraine. The initiative would have a greater chance of success if Washington offered a package that made Ukraine a neutral country, backed by a promise not to further expand NATO. Washington policymakers just can’t seem to imagine life without an...
Meet the psychologist helping people heal in Ukraine
Video | Farhana Javid, a mental health delegate from India, counsels people suffering from distress caused by the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Sloviansk …read more Source: International Committee of the Red...
Human Rights Watch: Persecution of Crimean Tatars intensifies
Human Rights Watch has issued a hard-hitting report in which it states that Russia is intensifying persecution of Crimean Tatars “with the apparent goal of completely silencing dissent on the peninsula. It has finally devoted detailed attention to the increasing persecution of Crimean Muslims on concocted ‘terrorism’ or ‘extremism’...
Russian children sing of their readiness to die if called upon by Putin
A ruling party MP in Russia has produced a video clip in which children enthusiastically sing of their willingness to ‘fight the final battle” for ‘Uncle Vova’, otherwise known as President Vladimir Putin. They also promise not only to hold on to Crimea which Russia has illegally annexed, but also to reclaim Alaska …read more Source:...
Why Russia is back in Afghanistan
Three decades after a humiliating military defeat in Afghanistan, Russia has returned to the scene. This adds Afghanistan to a long list of hotspots – from Syria and Libya to Venezuela and Ukraine – where Moscow’s low-cost, high-impact foreign policy is challenging the West. In Afghanistan, the Kremlin is covertly supporting the Taliban and...
