Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Watch List Findings: Sept. 30, 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: September 29, 2017
Anonymous companies: Charles Davidson, Executive Director of the Kleptocracy Initiative, will testify at the Helsinki Commission on October 3rd about the links between beneficial ownership secrecy in fueling globalized corruption. Russia probe: KI Advisory Council members Ilya Zaslavskiy and Louise Shelley were quoted in this look at how Robert...
Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series: “Smuggling Ukraine Westward”
Cosponsored by the Kennan Institute, Wilson Center and the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University Directions: Directions to the Wilson Center …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Wealth of Ukrainian Security Officers Revealed
The powerful interior minister is also under a spotlight as the authorities open a probe into corruption allegations against him. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Inside Tomsk’s Political Machine
The Siberian city’s gubernatorial election, rigged and managed from above, illustrates how the electoral system really works in many Russian regions. From openDemocracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
What would it take to trigger war between Russia and NATO? Just a spark
This September in Europe was a tense month of military posturing and preparations. Sweden recently began a three-week war game, its largest since the Cold War. Even as it did so, across the Baltic Sea, Russian and Belarusian forces concluded the Zapad military exercises – which NATO officials called “serious preparations for a big war”. Major war...
Finding My Creative Courage in North Korea
Just 15 months after taking his first writing workshop at Aspen Summer Words, Welby Altidor published Creative Courage, a book that draws on his experience as executive creative director at Cirque du Soleil, where he was responsible for a portfolio of groundbreaking live events. In the midst of making the final edits to his manuscript this past...
Ukraine’s unfinished reform agenda
Compared to previous attempts, especially those following the Orange Revolution in 2004, the current reform round in Ukraine (since 2014) has proved more successful. Some politically difficult decisions have been taken, such as the elimination of gas subsidies and the restructuring of the banking system. But reform remains incomplete in many...
Historian Anne Applebaum Details Stalin’s War Against Ukraine: ’I Believe It Was Genocide’
The true number of famine victims has been difficult to calculate, Anne Applebaum says, because the Soviet system tried to cover up the famine immediately after it happened. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Sentence to silence Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov on trial for words he didn’t utter
Russia’s trial on openly falsified charges of Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov has reached its squalid end, with the real aim likely to be reflected in a ban on public activities, accompanying the demanded suspended sentence. No reversion to rule of law is anticipated, although the verdict is due a day after a UN monitoring report expressed...
