Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Brussels Warns Chisinau Over Electoral Changes
Reforms are supported by pro-Russian president and West-leaning ruling party, but critics say they will undermine democracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kleptocracy Daily: June 20, 2017
News Senators are calling on the secretaries of State and Treasury to review whether a potential Russian takeover of petroleum company Citgo could threaten national security and violate economic sanctions. [Citgo, owned by the government of Venezuela, risks defaulting on a loan from Rosneft, a Russian state-owned energy company. Rosneft could...
Rights Court Condemns Russian Anti-Gay Law
Legislation discriminates against gays and turns a blind eye to homophobia, European Court of Human Rights rules. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Myth of Return. The Market of Symbolic Policies
First it was Trump who promised to expel millions of undocumented migrants. Now the European Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, is urging member states to speed up deportations. Both give out the same message – a “firm hand” against those without papers. In the European context, two arguments are put forward: this policy allows...
Consistently Inconsistent
The Corvinus Society for Foreign Affairs and Culture (CS4FAC) had the opportunity to organize a semester-long training program for university students which ran parallel in all four of the Visegrad countries, namely in the cities of Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Banska Bystrica, Kraków and Warsaw. The project ended with a conference called...
The 1917 Revolution Still Resonates in Modern Russia
One hundred years after the Russian revolution, the Bolsheviks’ historical legacy remains highly politicised. Some backers of Putin argue that, without his guiding hand, Russia would again witness the chaos of 1917. The year 1917 was a momentous one in Russian history. It started with a democratic uprising that overthrew the absolutist...
Crimean Jehovah’s Witnesses told to renounce their faith or serve in occupiers’ army
A Crimean Jehovah’s Witness has been ordered to provide ‘proof of change of faith’ in order to be eligible for alternative civilian service. Russia is already in grave breach of international humanitarian law by conscripting young men on illegally occupied Ukrainian territory, and is now adding open religious repression …read...
What Will Ukraine’s Next Big Reform Be?
Luckily, pension reform—unlike land and healthcare reform—has few vested stakes, and it has a good chance of passing …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Three Questions with Claudia Major
Editor’s Note: The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies hosted an event in Stockholm, Sweden May 16–17, 2017. This was the second edition of a long-term project that serves as a platform for high-level European and American security experts, strategic thinkers, senior...
Kleptocracy Daily: June 19, 2017
News U.S. lawmakers are launching a fresh effort to outlaw “shell companies” amid fears that Russia is exploiting such opaque corporate vehicles to spread its influence. The EU Foreign Ministers extend sanctions against Crimea. An investment group that U.S. authorities say is run by Russian mobsters and linked to the Russian government sent at...
