Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russia’s Existential Threat to NATO in the Baltics
NATO seems more united today than it has been at any time since the end of the Cold War. An aggressive Russia, unbowed by Western economic sanctions after its annexation of Crimea and intervention in eastern Ukraine, has driven NATO member countries closer together. However, if given the opportunity, an aggressive Russia could also put NATO in a...
Russia: Hacking Away at US Power
By Jacob L. Shapiro Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election has been making headlines for months now, as new revelations seem to come out every week. Two more surfaced in the past couple of weeks. On June 5, the Intercept published a leaked document from the National Security Agency that revealed that Russia’s General Staff Main...
Russia shoots itself in foot through trial of journalist in occupied Crimea
By staging show trials aimed at silencing opposition to annexation, Russia has drawn attention to the fact that its own legislation indicts Russian President Vladimir Putin and all those who helped him invade another country’s territory. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
German Scooter band breaches Crimea sanctions, incites fans to break the law
Not only has Germany’s Scooter band decided to flout international sanctions and ignore Russia’s grave human rights abuses in occupied Crimea, but it is also misleading its fans on its own website …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
The Ukrainian Reformation
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Proposed Nord Stream 2 compromise guarantees Ukraine’s gas transit role
The European Commission hopes to bring together the friends and the foes of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project around a mandate which would guarantee that Ukraine would remain a transit country for Russian gas to the EU. …read more Source:...
Balkan foreign fighters: from Syria to Ukraine
Although the phenomenon of foreign fighters is certainly not new, recent developments in Syria and Iraq have put this issue back on the European Union’s security agenda. The Western Balkan region is not an exception to this trend. Violent extremism in the region is generally perceived through the lens of Islamist radicalisation and foreign...
Also in Media: “The Kremlin’s Newest Hybrid Warfare Asset: Gangsters” | Foreign Policy | June 12, 2017
. . . as they look to prosecute their “political war” against the West, the Russians are emerging as the most enthusiastic users of gangsters’ services. Given that their intelligence services are now up to Cold War levels, it seems ironic that they would even need such amateur auxiliaries. However, so ambitious and numerous are their...
Fact Check: is China dumping steel?
We are continuing to act, when necessary, against unfair trading conditions in the steel sector, and against foreign dumping. European Union Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem speaks after the EU introduced new duties on steel products from China on Friday, June 9. China’s hold over the international steel market is pretty clear. It...
UN rights watchdog stops Ukraine from extraditing asylum seeker to Russia
The UN Human Rights Committee has ordered the Ukrainian authorities to halt extradition of Timur Tumgoev to Russia, pending consideration of his assertion that he would face torture if forcibly returned …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
