Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Poroshenko honours judge who effectively sentenced renowned Ukrainian dissident to death
Valery Marchenko should have turned 70 this year, after a long life which he would have surely spent serving Ukraine. The renowned journalist, writer and human rights defender died in October 1984, just a few months after being sentenced to 10 years labour camp for so-called ‘anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda’. 33 years after the...
An effective antidote: The four components that make Finland more resilient to hybrid campaigns, Charly Salonius-Pasternak (FIIA, Finland)
Russia’s actions in Ukraine reminded many that states use a mixture of tools to achieve their political objectives. Analytically troublesome but politically useful terms such as hybrid war emerged. Russia’s neighbours were thought to be particularly vulnerable. Yet Finland is structurally relatively resistant to hybrid campaigns due...
Report: Russia Implicates Browder In Magnitsky ’Murder’ Probe, Citing Widely Mocked MI6 ’Expose’
Russia, which says Magnitsky’s death was a tragedy but denies allegations that he was abused while in custody, has undertaken an aggressive, multipronged effort in recent years aimed at discrediting Browder and the narrative underpinning the U.S. Magnitsky Act. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Detention or Abduction? Another blogger & asylum-seeker detained in Ukraine
Kazakhstani blogger and activist Zhanara Akhmet has become the latest of at least three journalists and activists from post-Soviet countries to be detained by the Ukrainian authorities in the last six weeks. She has made disturbing allegations about what looked much more like an attempted abduction, than supposed compliance with yet another...
October 19th, 2017
CHINA China Calls On US To ‘Abandon Its Prejudices’ After Tillerson Rebuke James Griffiths and Steven Jiang, CNN China has called on the US to “abandon its prejudices” after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson claimed Beijing was subverting the global order and pursuing predatory economic policies. “China firmly upholds the international...
October 17th, 2017
CHINA Fraud Scandals Sap China’s Dream of Becoming a Science Superpower Amy Qin, The New York Times Having conquered world markets and challenged American political and military leadership, China has set its sights on becoming a global powerhouse in a different field: scientific research. But in its rush to dominance, China has stood out in...
Make laws not war: Ukrainian president and parliament push for peace resolution in Donbas
New laws to strengthen Ukraine’s control over Donbas and pave the way for conflict resolution. …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
Trial imminent of Russian soldier captured fighting in Donbas
The trial could begin in the next few weeks of Viktor Ageyev, the latest serving Russian soldier to be captured in the Luhansk oblast of Ukraine. Ageyev will be represented by a Ukrainian state-appointed lawyer since Russia has refused to provide him with legal aid …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
The Unfinished Business of the 1989 East European Revolutions
Recent developments in Ukraine can be viewed as a third attempt to complete the unfinished business of the 1989 East European revolutions. These revolutions succeeded in Central Europe and the Baltics, but brought mixed results in the Balkans and the former Soviet Republics. Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia remain the only post-Soviet states defying...
October 20th, 2017
CHINA “A Huge Deal” For China As The Era Of Xi Jinping Thought Begins Tom Phillips, The Guardian China’s communist leader, Xi Jinping, looks to have further strengthened his rule over the world’s second largest economy with the apparent confirmation that a new body of political theory bearing his name will be written into the...
