Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Watch List: Aug. 9, 2017
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The Unsung Summit of Putin and Trump
This week marks the 72nd anniversary of the criminal US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And as is the case each year, there is much discussion and lamenting over this atrocity, as there well should be. For the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary for victory; Japan had already sued for peace. It was the opening salvo, a brutal...
Putin and children
Politics Once again, the Russian state is going through a period of concern related to youth policy. President Vladimir Putin himself has already chaired not one but two “phone-in shows” this year. They have already become a tradition: for a couple of hours, once a year, Putin answers people’s questions and solves their local problems, live...
Путин и дети
Politics Российское государство (не в первый раз) переживает период озабоченности молодежной политикой. Сам президент Владимир Путин провел в этом году не одну, а две “прямых линии». Это уже традиция – раз в год в эфире федеральных телеканалов Путин в течение нескольких часов отвечает на вопросы жителей страны и решает их локальные проблемы...
Moral Combat in International Politics – Part 1
This paper was written for the ‘V4 for Europe — Developing positive scenarios for Europe’s future’ workshop, organised by the Hungarian Europe Society in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Budapest on 16 May 2017. “The positions of the opposing forces were clearly outlined in 2016. Nations rose up against the globalists,...
Moral Combat in International Politics – Part 2
This paper was written for the ‘V4 for Europe — Developing positive scenarios for Europe’s future’ workshop, organised by the Hungarian Europe Society in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Budapest on 16 May 2017. How is populist foreign policy made? Populists approach national unity through rallying their voters against...