Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Treason Trial Against Yanukovych Begins in Ukraine
May 4, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
New York Art Patron Absent as Her Trial Begins in Moscow
Prosecutors say Janna Bullock and her ex-husband led a gang that embezzled billions of rubles from municipalities near Moscow. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Sustainable Development? Human and Institutional Capital in the Eastern Partnership Countries and Russia
Invitation Only Research Event 31 May 2017 – 09:30 to 16:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London …read more Source: Chatham...
Donbas militants ‘sentence’ 63-year-old Ukrainian religious scholar on insane charges
After holding well-known academic Ihor Kozlovskyy prisoner for well over a year, the Kremlin-backed militants of the so-called Donetsk people’s republic [DPR] have now ‘sentenced’ him to nearly 3 years’ imprisonment. The 63-year-old religious scholar was ‘convicted’ by a DPR military court of possession of two grenades...
‘Witnesses’ in hiding from Russia’s Soviet trial of Ukrainian journalist in Crimea
It was unfortunately only the latest hearing that got cancelled on World Press Freedom Day, not the insane criminal charges that Russia has brought against Crimean journalist Mykola Semena for exercising freedom of speech …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
The Holy Alliance: How American Evangelicals Helped Shape Russia’s Anti-LGBT Laws
How Russia became the religious right’s next frontier. May 3, 2017 By Kasey Stricklin Photo: Kremlin Russia has never been a paragon of LGBT rights, to put it mildly. The history of the Russian LGBT community includes imprisonment in penal colonies and gulags, physical violence and harassment, bans on public gay pride events, and a...
What is the Liberal International Order?
Photo credit: Drop of Light / Shutterstock.com In the last five years or so, U.S. and European foreign policy think tanks have become increasingly preoccupied with threats to the set of norms, rules, and institutions known as the liberal international order, especially from “revisionist” rising powers and above all authoritarian powers like China...
Three Questions with Bruce Jones
The Marshall Plan was conceived and implemented 70 years ago. Since then, many aid and development initiatives and institutions of greater scale have been created. Why does the Marshall Plan still matter after 70 years? First of all, I challenge the premise of greater scale. If you look at the percentage of the federal budget that the United...
An American’s Death in Ukraine Is a Wake-Up Call for Russia and the West
Unless the United States and its allies increase diplomatic pressure on Moscow, the violence in Ukraine will continue to kill innocent people. …read more Source: Open Society...
Navalny Accuses Russian Government of Green Dye Attack
Protesters throughout the country took to the streets this weekend, with letters asking Putin not to run for a fourth term. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
