Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The aftermath of the crisis. An overhaul of Ukraine’s banking sector
In 2014–2016, Ukraine’s banking sector was affected by what has proven to be the most serious crisis in its modern history. Almost half of the banks went bankrupt and the losses incurred by the state and banking sector clients was in excess of US$ 20 billion. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Rehabilitation Package of Reforms slams discriminatory bills on NGO public reporting
The draft laws proposed “contain a number of provisions that contradict national and international legislation, are discriminatory and consequently should be withdrawn” …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia’s “sentence against the entire Crimean Tatar people” awaited
The sentence is expected on August 11 of Akhtem Chiygoz, Deputy Head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis and recognized political prisoner. He and other Crimean Tatars are on trial, as Chiygoz said in his final address, for upholding the law and for defending Ukraine’s territorial integrity, with Russia’s prosecution carried out by people who...
The ICRC in Ukraine: Facts and figures, January – June 2017
Article | An overview of ICRC’s work from January to June 2017 in Eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: International Committee of the Red...
Watch List: Aug. 10, 2017
The items listed below represent potential emerging issues that our analysts are tracking. These can be long term or short term, but will be updated daily. If an item on our Watch List becomes critical, we will email you a full analysis explaining its significance. Each Saturday, we will follow up our daily Watch List for each week with our...
Russia hits new depths, jails 76-year-old & gravely ill Crimean Tatar for peaceful protest
A ‘court’ in Russian-occupied Crimea has jailed Server Karametov for ten days for supposedly ‘resisting the police’. The frail pensioner, who suffers from Parkinson’s Disease and other serious illnesses had already been fined 10 thousand roubles the previous day for what the same ‘judge’, Marina Vladimirovna Kolotsei chose...
New armed search in Crimea ends with Crimean Tatar Imam hospitalized
Russia has marked International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples with both continuing and new repression against Crimean Tatars. These included an armed search of the home which Umer Emiramzaev shares with his wife and three small children, and his parents and brothers. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Appeal to impose sanctions over the political persecution of Volodymyr Balukh
An open appeal to EU member states, the USA, Canada and other countries to impose sanctions on those involved in the politically motivated prosecution and imprisonment in Russian-occupied Crimea of Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Balukh …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Moldovan Students Set to Learn More About the Holocaust
Critics say that teaching on the subject has been far too little, partly because of the sensitivity of discussing the atrocities committed by the Romanian fascist state. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
August 9th, 2017
CHINA The Contradictory World Of Chinese JournalismPal Nyiri, THE INTERPRETEREarlier this year, The New York Times reported that Yang Jisheng, a former senior journalist for China’s main state-owned news agency, Xinhua, was forbidden from traveling to Harvard to accept an award for his book on the famine induced by Chairman Mao’s...
