Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Watch List Findings: July 29, 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...
Captive Nations Report 2017: Crimea and Donbas
It’s been three years since Russia invaded and annexed Crimea. I will divide my remarks into three brief sections: first discussing the case of Ilmi Umerov, which has been an ongoing trial this year. Second, I want to explain the ramifications of Russian occupation in Crimea this year from a legal standpoint, and show you that the people of...
Wallenberg Family Sues for Access to KGB Files
The truth about the disappearance and death of the heroic Swedish diplomat is shrouded in bureaucratic fog. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kadyrov Ally Embroiled in Bank Scandal
Speaker of parliament allegedly threatened Sberbank’s Chechen head, who is under suspicion of running a gigantic fraud scheme. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Venezuela’s cheerleaders must be held to account
“Venezuela” used to be a country. Now it’s a term of abuse. In the wake of last night’s Senate vote on Obamacare, for example, Twitter lit up with Trumpkins claiming that John McCain – John McCain! – wanted to turn America into a socialist paradise. #SkinnyRepeal defeated thanks to communists McCain, Murkowski & Collins, traitors...
The Axis of the Sanctioned
By Jacob L. Shapiro Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity was doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. In January 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush famously declared Iraq, Iran and North Korea the axis of evil in his State of the Union speech. This week, with the passage of a bill to impose expanded sanctions...
25% of the new Supreme Court judges received negative assessments
The results of Ukraine’s first competition for Supreme Court judges are in. While some appointments are certainly welcome, like that of human rights lawyer Arkadiy Bushchenko, others, like the judge who sentenced Volodymyr Panasenko to life imprisonment for a crime nobody believed he had committed, are immensely frustrating. …read...
Russia repeats ‘trial’ of Crimean Tatar political prisoner until judges give the right sentence
After three attempts. Russia’s FSB has obtained almost the 17-year sentence it demanded against Ruslan Zeytullaev, a 32-year-old father of three and recognized political prisoner. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Watch List: July 27, 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...
Home Alone – Trump Is the Kevin McCallister of American Politics
It’s as if on election night the shocked and exasperated rulers of the Imperial City ordered Donald Trump to sleep in the White House attic. Unlike Kevin McCallister’s family in the movie, however, the establishment never stopped obsessing about his bratty insolence and never intended for him to rejoin the family the next morning – or...
