Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Academics Shocked by Stalin Plaque in Moscow
A prominent legal figure has given up his academic position over the installation of a plaque honoring former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
10 Things You Should Not Do in Belarus
In Europe’s “last dictatorship,” you should definitely be careful what you photograph and joke about. From European Radio for Belarus (ERB). …read more Source: Transitions Online...
June 29th, 2017
CHINA Liu Xiaobo Embodied Hope For China’s Democracy. Now He’s Sick. Steven Lee Myers And Austin Ramzy, THE NEW YORK TIMES In the fall of 2008, dozens of activists secretly worked to produce a political manifesto. It was only 3,554 Chinese characters long, but it listed a series of demands on China’s leaders to make the country...
What Do Ukrainians Think about the European Integration?
The opinion poll was commissioned by the IWP and conducted by GfK Ukraine. …read more Source: Institute of World...
EU budget commissioner warns Brexit will put a €10bn-12bn hole in EU budget
EU budget commissioner warns Brexit will put a €10bn-12bn hole in EU budgetUnveiling a Reflection paper on the future of the EU’s finances, EU budget commissioner Günther Oettinger warned that the “gap in the EU finances arising from the United Kingdom’s withdrawal and from the financing needs of new priorities needs to be clearly...
We were warned about Russia – but didn’t listen
Russia tries to tell its neighbours what to do. Then it gets cross with them for objecting to its interference. That, in a nutshell, is the story of European security since 1991. The latest row with Norway exemplifies this. Norway, it is probably worth pointing out, is hardly an example of—to mimic the Kremlin’s propaganda memes—a historic...
GIJN Adds Ten New Members
Gutsy online reporting sites from Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Tunisia, data journalism centers in Turkey and Ukraine, and a West African reporting network are among the 10 new members approved by the GIJN Board of Directors this week. The new groups bring GIJN’s membership to 155 organizations in 68 countries. Interested in joining?...
Germany urges lasting ceasefire in eastern Ukraine
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Wednesday (28 June) called for Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine to extend a harvest-related ceasefire, saying it could help pave the way for a political solution. …read more Source:...
Central European states do not need rivalry, they need joint efforts
How would you explain Poland’s activism on a series of regional project proposals such as The Three Seas Initiative and Intermarium? What foreign policy perceptions drive with these two new concepts? Poland’s activity in the broader Central European region is a natural manifestation of the need to strengthen traditional ties with our...
Russian contract soldier captured while fighting in Donbas. Russia denies everything
Another Russian soldier whose active combat in Ukraine is denied by Moscow has been captured in the Luhansk oblast after a battle in which his fellow Russian soldier was killed …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
