Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Налог на отдых
Economy С 2018 года в России появится новый налог, взимать который в качестве эксперимента пока будут только в четырех регионах – в аннексированном Крыму, Алтайском крае, Краснодарском крае и Ставропольском крае. Речь идет о так называемом курортном сборе, идею которого Владимир Путин еще в прошлом году подкинул правительству, а то по привычке...
July 3rd, 2017
CHINA China Won’t Let Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Laureate, Get Cancer Treatment Abroad Steven Lee Myers, THE NEW YORK TIMES The Chinese authorities have refused permission for Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace laureate paroled from prison for cancer treatment, to go abroad for care, one of his lawyers said on Thursday. The authorities did not explain the...
NATO Cybersecurity: A Roadmap to Resilience
Today the digitalization of crisis and conflict is a fact. Hacks, malware, and fake news are increasingly taking the place of planes, bombs, and missiles. Cyberspace empowers adversaries from across the globe to challenge our security with a mouse-click. Worldwide criminal cyber-attacks such as the WannaCry ransomware, the aggressive use of...
Shining Light on Russia’s Underground Economy
New study accords with previous estimates, saying off-the-books income remains stubbornly high. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Three Seas Initiative will strengthen Europe
In a recent opinion piece, Wojciech Przybylski warned that Donald Trump’s endorsement of the Three Seas Initiative coupled with the subsequent politics of the Polish government may overshadow the Visegrad Group. I really cannot see why something like this should happen and why the countries involved in the initiative would be marginalized...
War in Ukraine 2.0
Russia is targeting the most capable and dedicated parts of the Ukrainian military. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia prevents jailed Crimean Tatar leader Akhtem Chiygoz from attending his mother’s funeral
It is a son’s duty to lay his mother to rest. Russia had allowed Crimean Tatar political prisoner Akhtem Chiygoz to see his dying mother for just ten minutes two weeks ago, and it has now prevented him from attending her funeral …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
French court orders journalist to retract the truth about grossly misleading Moreira film on Ukraine
Paul Moreira, the author of a French film that falsely calls a tragic fire in Odesa a ‘massacre’ and presents an equally distorted picture of Euromaidan and Russia’s annexation of Crimea, has won a defamation suit against freelance Ukrainian journalist, Anna Chesanovska-Jaillard …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
What Was First on the Romanian Table?
For me, food is not just a basic human need but also a cultural act, and the way it is prepared expresses the identity of the people who eat it. Romania has been long been at the intersection of many customs and traditions and its food has been influenced by other nations. In the Daco-Roman period, the Romans brought the pie, or plăcintă. The...
Watch List Findings: July 1, 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...
