Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
June 26th, 2017
CHINA China Frees Jailed Dissident With Terminal CancerBBC Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Mr. Liu, a human rights campaigner, was jailed in 2009 on subversion charges for calling for greater democracy. His lawyer says he is being...
Ukrainians Travel Visa Free
New visa-free arrangements for Ukrainians traveling to the EU will have several practical and, more importantly, symbolic impacts. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Russia’s geopolitical PR campaign finds a perfect opening in North Africa
Not since the end of the Cold War has Russia carried so much weight. Deeply involved in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, doggedly safeguarding Bashar al-Assad’s embattled regime in Syria, and alleged to have meddled in the US presidential elections, the Kremlin is a force for all the world to reckon with. And now it has a new playing field,...
Presentation and Discussion “Foreign Policy Audit: Ukraine-the United Kingdom”
On July 3, the Institute of World Policy will hold a public discussion “Foreign Policy Audit: Ukraine – the United Kingdom”. …read more Source: Institute of World...
Czech man on trial for helping Russian-backed fighters “plan terrorist attack” in Donbas
The Czech Republic has become the latest EU country to put its own citizen on trial over alleged involvement on the side of Kremlin-backed militants in the fighting in Donbas. Russia, in contrast, has sentenced one Russian to 5 years’ imprisonment – for fighting (legally) for Ukraine …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Ukrainian activist forced to flee FSB persecution in Russian-occupied Crimea
Natalya Kharchenko, a blogger and the mother of two small children has been forced to leave her home in Crimea under Russian occupation or become the latest Ukrainian to be charged with ‘separatism’ for her pro-Ukrainian position …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
David Petraeus on US policy under Donald Trump, the generational war against Islamist Terrorism, and dealing with China
Retired United States General David Petraeus was interviewed by Brendan Nicholson, from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute at a Liberal party gala dinner in Sydney on Friday. Dan Hembrechts/AAPRetired United States General David Petraeus was a commander of international forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Later he headed the CIA, before...
Kleptocracy Weekly: 6/19-6/23
The latest on KI’s blog: Natalie Duffy discusses how the Armed Services Committee has a revolving door all its own. U.S. 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. Op-ed by Representative Tom Suozzi: Americans must unite...
Russia Riled By Polish Decision to Destroy Red Army Monuments
Adding insult to injury, the Sejm voted for the bill on a day Russia commemorates those who lost their lives in the fight against Nazism. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The power of Russian propaganda
After the 2008 Georgian War, and then the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Moscow realised the limits of its hard power. The sovereign and independent countries that Putin had considered to be part of Russia’s “legitimate sphere of influence” were slipping away by building closer ties with Europe and the US. This was in clear opposition with...
