Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Report: Russia Implicates Browder In Magnitsky ’Murder’ Probe, Citing Widely Mocked MI6 ’Expose’
Russia, which says Magnitsky’s death was a tragedy but denies allegations that he was abused while in custody, has undertaken an aggressive, multipronged effort in recent years aimed at discrediting Browder and the narrative underpinning the U.S. Magnitsky Act. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
October 20th, 2017
CHINA “A Huge Deal” For China As The Era Of Xi Jinping Thought Begins Tom Phillips, The Guardian China’s communist leader, Xi Jinping, looks to have further strengthened his rule over the world’s second largest economy with the apparent confirmation that a new body of political theory bearing his name will be written into the...
Kleptocracy Daily | October 23, 2017
China’s global influence campaign: As Xi Jinping pushes his vision of China as a global power, other countries are increasingly perturbed by Beijing’s aggressive interference tactics, writes Jane Perlez. (NYT) Guo Wengui: Chinese officials have reportedly been abusing their visas and breaking U.S. law to harass the whistleblower in...
October 3rd, 2017
CHINA Chinese Police Detain Journalist Who Wrote About Missing Wuhan Students RFA A Chinese journalist who wrote an article about dozens of university students who have gone missing in recent years in the central city of Wuhan has been detained on suspicion of “rumor-mongering.” The 39-year-old journalist, identified only by his surname Wang, has...
NATO’s Eastern Flank and Its Future Relationship With Russia
Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its invasion of eastern Ukraine unified NATO and prompted allies to beef up defenses. But the process of strengthening the alliance’s Eastern flank is far from over. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Time to crack down on Russia Today and its destabilising propaganda
Vladimir Putin’s regime murders critics, harasses opposition parties, poisons dissidents, locks up protesters, assassinates journalists, represses gays, invades neighbouring states and annexes their territory, shoots civilian airplanes out of the sky, interferes in the electoral processes of democratic states, and aids the unspeakable...
Europe’s Border Problem
By George Friedman For centuries Europe has fought wars over borders. During the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, Europe’s borders shifted wildly, as empires fragmented, new nations arose and wars were waged. After 1945 and the beginning of the Cold War, a new principle emerged on the Continent. The borders that existed...
Opening Up Data in Russia’s Closed System
Opening Up: Anastasia Valeeva (right) at a data journalism course at the American University of Central Asia. Anastasia Valeeva, a Russian-born investigative journalist who specializes in open data, has been exploring the state of data journalism in her home country. For a paper at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford...
Speaking with facts about Ukraine’s law on education
It is high time to stop politicizing the new Ukrainian Law on education, writes Ukraine’s Ambassador to the EU, Mykola Tochytskyi. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian anti-corruption journalists come under intensive surveillance
The Skhemy journalist project who have frequently exposed corruption by public officials in Ukraine has reported unexplained surveillance of one of their journalists, Oleksandr Chornovalov. While this is not the first time Skhemy journalists have been targeted, the surveillance has never before been so brazen …read more Source: Kharkiv...
