Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Migration politics in Slovakia: Balancing domestic and EU-level goals
By Alena Kudzko. Photo by Brian Colson|Flickr, licensed by CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Summary:Since 2016, Slovakia’s position on migration has become more measured. Compared to the harsh rhetoric that the country earlier employed and its vehement refusal to accept EU refugees in 2015-early 2016, Slovakia’s spring 2017 stance represents a more...
Instilling Terror: More Armed Searches & Abduction-like Arrests in Russian-occupied Crimea
The key element in any attempts to terrorize the population is uncertainty: it should be unclear who will be the next victim – it could be you or your family. On May 8, armed Russian officers came for the son of a well-known regional Mejlis leader and another Crimean Tatar, Server Yusuf, who appears to have been taken to Russia after what looks...
Navalny Said to Be Under Medical Care in Spain
Members of a shadowy extremist group accused of attacking the dissident say they helped pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Hungarian Disabled Home to Close Over Appalling Conditions
Thousands of children and disabled adults remain locked up in understaffed, badly funded facilities. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Anti-Russia Inquisition Intensifies
Ted Galen Carpenter For a brief period in April, it appeared that the campaign that Democrats and neo-conservative Republicans were waging for a comprehensive investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election had peaked and was beginning to ebb. The Trump...
Russia refuses to obey UN Court order to stop persecution of Crimean Tatar Mejlis
Russia is both distorting the substance of the recent International Court of Justice judgement on occupied Crimea, and refusing to stop its extraordinary criminalization of the Mejlis, or self-governing body of the Crimean Tatar people. It is also simply ignoring the order regarding education in Ukrainian …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Macron Marches On Towards Next French Poll
Emmanuel Macron achieved a strong victory over Marine Le Pen in the French presidential elections on the weekend. While he is not the novice some pundits make him out to be, he does face serious challenges in the months and years ahead. Less than a year after forming his centrist En Marche! party—and contradicting punditry that sees voters in the...
A Global Guide to Initiatives Tackling “Fake News”
Here’s a list of initiatives that hope to fix trust in journalism and tackle “fake news”. There’s a lot. I’ve tried to collect an extensive list of projects, initiatives and tools created to fix trust in journalism and false/fake news and misinformation. This also includes efforts and initiatives around verification. Where...
Is President Poroshenko turning to selective stripping of Ukrainian citizenship?
Almost a week after the first reports that Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko had stripped controversial MP Andriy Artemenko of his citizenship, there is still no official statement from the President’s Administration, nor can the decree be seen on the official website …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
FTAC – On the Persistence of the Feudal Mode in Statecraft
The Kingdom is not a NATO member, much less one applying for European Union accession. It’s alliance with the west may be based on its defense of its own power and prestige in Sunni Islam (vs the Shiite anchorage in Iran) and on related defense, development, and trade needs. Turkey no longer teeters on the “brink of Islamization”. Over the...
