Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
RT: A Low-Grade Platform for Useful Idiots
RT is coming under increasing scrutiny for its role in the Kremlin’s disinformation campaign against the West. The US Justice Department is allegedly requesting that individuals associated with the network’s US branch, RT America, register as foreign agents. Nascent Congressional efforts to investigate and counter the Kremlin’s...
Voting for a candidate who does not exist
Politics The Levada Center recently published results of a survey where respondents were informed that Vladimir Putin supports Andrey Semyonov, a fictitious figure who was supposedly nominated to run as a candidate for the presidency in the 2018 election. Survey respondents were asked whether they had heard of the candidate and whether they were...
Another Crimean Tatar civic activist faces prison for saying that Crimea is Ukraine
The FSB in Russian-occupied Crimea has formally charged 54-year-old Crimean Tatar activist Suleyman Kadyrov with making a ‘public call to violate Russia’s territorial integrity’ ffor a Facebook repost, with the comment “Crimea is Ukraine”. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
GSA Names Ukraine as UK’s Offshoring Destination of the Year
Ukraine is the UK’s offshoring destination of the year according to the Global Sourcing Association (GSA) UK. The GSA looked at the outsourcing market from the perspective of the United Kingdom, the world’s second-largest outsourcing market. “This is a significant achievement for Ukraine, as the Award has been judged by their industry...
Ukraine: The curse of geopolitics
The conflict in Ukraine over the Donbass region lumbers on, generally unnoticed unless there is a spike in the violence, as was the case earlier this year with Avdiivka. While this is clearly a battle over the future status of the Donbass region in the east and there is a genuine will amongst the separatist leaders for independence, the...
The Czech elections are on the verge of common sense
President Miloš Zeman’s statement in the Palace of Europe regarding annexation of Crimea, triggered a violent reaction not only in Ukraine but also in the Czech Republic. This statement was condemned both by Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaorálek. Czech representatives in the European Parliament urged the...
Watch List Findings: Oct. 21, 2017
What follows are the preliminary findings for issues identified in the daily Watch Lists this week. We are only sending findings that we regard as significant or potentially significant to keep this list manageable. We have findings for all the Watch List items. Should you be interested in findings not listed here, please contact us and we will...
Kleptocracy Weekly | October 20, 2017 | Top news and features on globalized corruption
China: Xi Jinping opened the 19th CCP Congress with a three-and-a-half hour speech promising a “new era” for China as a “global power.” He set out “a vision of total control – with the party guiding not only the economy and the Internet but culture, religion and morals, writes Simon Denyer. (WaPo) Xi cited the “virus” of corruption as the...
Ukraine Returns to the Fold
Oleksandr Danylyuk, Ukraine’s minister of finance, Francis Malige, managing director, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, EBRD, and Ivan Mikloš, chief economic advisor to the prime minister of Ukraine and chairman of the Strategic Advisory Group for Support of Ukrainian Reforms, tell Emerging Europe what progress Ukraine’s economy has...
New MH17 Photograph Geolocated to Donetsk
On October 19, 2017, the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), the Dutch-led criminal investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) over Ukraine, published a new photograph Buk 332, the Russian Buk missile launcher that downed MH17 on July 17, 2014. Buk 332, previously identified by Bellingcat as ‘Buk 3×2,’ is an...
