Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Saakashvili Asks for Asylum in Ukraine
The former Georgian president calls supporters to rally in Kyiv against corruption and the arrogance of politicians. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Saudi King on Historic Visit to Moscow
New era of relations touted as investments, oil prices, and Middle East strategies take center stage. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukrainian TV Live-Streams Fake Congressional Hearing
Event was arranged by a former U.S. lawmaker with ties to leading Ukrainian and Hungarian politicos. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia’s Soldier Selfie Ban Fights Open-Source Research
A law drafted by Russia’s ministry of defense, which would ban its soldiers’ use of social media, serves to confirm the work of open-source researchers reporting on the illicit presence of Russian troops in Ukraine and Syria, according to Atlantic Council analysts. “The Russian authorities and media have repeatedly tried to undermine...
Now Is the Time for Electoral Reform in Ukraine
Ukraine’s parliament has a busy agenda this autumn. Not only is a sweeping healthcare reform package needed to fix the country’s broken system, judicial reform, the creation of a special anticorruption court, and land reform are also pending. In spite of these burning priorities, now is also the best time for parliament to pass...
Ukrainian prosecutor refuses to investigate police inaction during shocking anti-Roma pogrom
An Odesa court has reinstated the criminal proceedings initiated over police failure to react during anti-Roma riots last year in Loshchynivka, but only after human rights lawyers challenged the prosecutor’s decision to terminate the investigation. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
European Parliament urges sanctions over persecution of Crimean Tatar leaders, other victims of repression & discrimination in Russian-occupied Crimea
The European Parliament has demanded that Russia stop its persecution of Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians in occupied Crimea and called on the European Court of Human Rights to give priority status to applications from Crimeans seeking redress …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian Media’s Homage to Catalonia
Russia / Europe The referendum in Catalonia and the harsh actions of police against the protestors have put the Kremlin in an awkward position. On the one hand, this is an excellent occasion to once again accuse the West of all the usual deadly sins, to herald the decline of European democracy, and to show TV audiences in Russia that their own...
Poignant proof of why letters to the Kremlin’s Ukrainian hostages matter
There are over forty Crimean political prisoners in Russian-occupied Crimea or Russia, and that figure is rising. Access to information and contact with them is limited, with Russia clearly hoping that people will forget about them. A letter just received from Yevhen Panov makes it quite clear how much our letters mean to the imprisoned men...
Divide and conquer
Ten years ago, the idea that Russia had the will or ability to interfere in other countries’ affairs was widely dismissed as paranoid scaremongering. Not any more. Events in the United States, France, Ukraine and elsewhere have highlighted the Kremlin’s ability—real or perceived—to project power beyond its borders. …read more...
