Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
New Appointments Give Clues on Trump’s European Policy: Wess Mitchell nominated for Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Language English Chroniques américaines As European leaders are poised to meet again with the American president next week during the UN General Assembly (Sept.12-25, 2017), they will probably harbor the same interrogations that have plagued them since Donald Trump’s election: what is the President’s European policy? During the...
Russian Colonel General Identified as Key MH17 Figure
Русская версия этого расследования опубликована изданием The Insider. A joint investigation between The Insider and Bellingcat used open source research, investigative journalism, and forensic voice analysis to determine the identity of “Delfin,” a key figure sought by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), the Dutch-led criminal investigation into...
Ukrainian Reform Activists Derail Effort To ’Destroy’ Anticorruption Body
Ukrainian activists and reformist lawmakers worked tirelessly overnight to remove a bill from parliamentary consideration that they say would “destroy”the country’s only independent investigative body by dismissing its chief. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
New article by Johannes Leitner and Hannes Meissner on Political Risks in the Ukraine
Der Beitrag New article by Johannes Leitner and Hannes Meissner on Political Risks in the Ukraine erschien zuerst auf Competence Center for Black Sea Region Studies. …read more Source: Competence Center for Black Sea Region...
Ukraine: a commotion around Saakashvili
On 5 December in Kiev an attempt was made by the security service of Ukraine to detain Mikheil Saakashvili. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
FTAC: “Oh, Jerusalem” and Islam’s New Divide
The prompt was the familiar — too familiar — and now cliche threat: the whole Muslims world will now unify against the “Little” and “Great” Satan that would be Israel and the United States were it not that Moscow, Damascus, and Tehran have consistently and with enthusiasm proven themselves cruel and evil to the Believers fervent or moderate:...
Ukraine’s Key Trends: Looking Ahead to 2018
Invitation Only Research Event 12 Dec 2017 – 10:00 to 11:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London Russia and Eurasia Programme, …read more Source: Chatham...
Excerpt: from hybrid to asymmetric warfare
The following is an excerpt from the Debating Security Plus 2017 report published by Friends of Europe. Since Russia’s 2014 actions in Crimea, the term “hybrid warfare” has become a new buzzword in security discussions. Hybrid warfare can essentially be defined as representing amplified use of irregular, nonconventional and subversive...
Britain needs to wake up to the Russian threat
It’s hard to avoid mention of Donald Trump and Russia in British political circles these days. And the combined threat they pose. Liberal democracies have come late to an understanding of the threat Russia’s hybrid warfare pose. The threat has been super-charged by an investigation into Trump’s collusion with Russia, which could...
Russia adds a vital source of information about rights abuse in occupied Crimea to its list of ‘foreign agents’
Russia has used the recent requirement in the USA that its propaganda outlets RT and Sputnik register with FARA to add Krym.Realii, one of the only media resources providing information about politically-motivated prosecutions and other rights abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea to its list of ‘foreign agents’ …read more Source:...
