Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
November 27th, 2017
CAMBODIA Hun Sen Launches Attack On Cambodian Centre For Human Rights Liam Cochrane, ABC News Australia Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen—who was installed into power by Vietnam and survives largely due to Chinese funding—has continued his anti-foreigner attacks, this time targeting a major human rights organisation. Sen says the CCHR...
Russian-speaking Germans: Who are they?
Russia / Europe For many years, residents of West Germany born in the USSR were unofficially labeled “invisible migrants”. After the collapse of the Berlin Wall, stories on the “Russian mafia” intially circulated through the German news media, but soon faded from the forefront. The topic of Russians in Germany in the years after unification has...
Several space events in Kyiv confirmed Ukraine’s status as a hi-tech nation
This fall we celebrated two prominent space anniversaries: the 60th anniversary of the launch of the first satellite (October 4) and the 20th anniversary of the flight of the first astronaut of independent Ukraine (November 19). Several events were conducted around these dates, including the International Space and Future Forum, the world’s...
Watch List Findings: Nov. 25, 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...
Thanksgiving 2017 – Why There Is No Peace On Earth
After the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 and the death of the Soviet Union was confirmed two years later when Boris Yeltsin courageously stood down the red army tanks in front of Moscow’s White House, a dark era in human history came to an end. The world had descended into what had been a 77-year global war, incepting with the...
German Intelligence Failures Ahead of Stalingrad
(click to enlarge) But the Germans made a critical error even before the invasion began. Barbarossa was a three-pronged attack. One prong was into the Baltic states and then toward Leningrad (modern-day St. Petersburg), the second was toward Moscow, and the third was into the south, designed to capture Ukraine and then the Caucasus. Formulating...
Debacle in the Donbas
The Donbas is seeing a coup within a coup, as two of the leading separatists turn on each other. …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
Ukrainian victim of Russia’s first ‘absolutely Stalinist trial” spends 4th birthday in brutal isolation
Oleksandr (Sasha) Kolchenko is spending a fourth birthday in Russian captivity, one of the first victims of Russia’s mounting appetite for fake ‘terrorism’ show trials, aimed at crushing dissent, and trying to provide justification for Russia’s invasion and occupation of Crimea. He and Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov are...
Russia causes the death of revered veteran of the Crimean Tatar National Movement, then tries to hide it
83-year-old Vedzhie Kashka, victim of the 1944 Deportation and veteran of the non-violent struggle of the Crimean Tatar people for their rights, died on November 23 after Russian FSB officers burst into a restaurant where she had been sitting and tried to detain her. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Eastern Partnership: 2017 Brussels summit – Taking stock and new objectives
Written by Philippe Perchoc, © areporter / Fotolia On 24 November 2017, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine meet with the European Union (EU) in Brussels for the fifth Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit. A lot has been achieved since the Riga summit in 2015: association agreements (AA) and deep and comprehensive free trade...