Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Putin Talks With Donbas Leaders
Possible prisoner swap with Kyiv discussed in phone talks; Kremlin dismisses Washington’s reported peacekeeping plan. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Rosneft Boss A No-Show at Trial of Russian Ex-Minister
The former top Putin aide was central in the arrest of the former economy minister, but has not appeared to testify at his trial. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The New Reality of a Differentiated EU
In the aftermath of the Brexit vote and in the midst of Europe’s ongoing crises, references to a multi-speed Europe, two-tier EU, or variable geometry have moved from the fringes to the political mainstream. These suggestions for differentiated integration (DI) would mean that groups of member states can choose to move forward on...
Does the Sceptre of Separatism Haunt Emerging Europe?
There is much talk in Europe at the moment about the potential spread of separatist movements, a consequence of Catalonia’s referendum on independence. A number of maps have appeared on the internet pointing to various regions which may be next in line. The spectre of disintegrating states haunts some European Union states and is perceived...
Also in Media: “Western Worries About Russian Disinformation ‘Just Fits of Hysterics’” | Hungarian Spectrum | November 15, 2017
Of course the title of the Hungarian Spectrum article is ironic, not dismissive. Moscow’s manipulation of “Information Space” beyond its boundaries is serious stuff, and the American public and other western democratic constituencies need to know it down to and through their grassroots. Good examples of Russian manipulation can be seen in...
Putin ‘supports’ large-scale exchange of hostages held in Donbas
It remains to be seen whether reports from Moscow of ‘support’ for an exchange of prisoners signify movement or imitation of progress. Families who have been waiting 1,000 days or longer for the men’s return have had their hopes dashed too often before and many of the hostages are facing their second or third cold and hungry winter in...
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...
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...
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...
