Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Bring the Troops Home From Korea
There is one good solution to the Korean crisis, one that the mainstream press commentators simply will not confront. It’s not a solution that is likely to be adopted, especially by a blustery and bellicose president and a national-security establishment that has a Cold War anti-communist mindset. Nonetheless, it bears pointing out.What is...
Russian Journalist Found Guilty of Extremism
Prosecutors said Aleksandr Sokolov and three other accused ex-People’s Will Army members wanted to bring down the government. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kleptocracy Weekly: August 7 – August 11
KI’s Peter Podkopaev and Natalie Duffy reveal what the state of Russia’s roads tells us about Putin’s kleptocracy for Foreign Affairs magazine. NPR discusses how shell companies enable North Korea to dodge the economic impact of sanctions. The FCPA Blog examines six bills in Congress targeting anonymous companies. U.S....
How strong is V4?
According to Viktor Orbán the V4 is “as strong as never”. Orbán considers the strengthening of this group as the most important event in recent times. Is this really so? Is V4 really strong? Does it even exist at all? Orbán claims the V4 that unites “romantic Hungarians, enthusiastic Poles, rational Czechs and moderate Slovaks” not only exists,...
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of provisions that contradict national and international legislation, are discriminatory and consequently should be withdrawn” …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...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...