Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kleptocracy Daily: April 18, 2017
Tomorrow: KI will host Oleksander Danyliuk, Minister of Finance of Ukraine, for a discussion with Walter Russell Mead at Hudson Institute. Sign up or watch live. News An Oregon legislative committee has passed a sweeping piece of legislation designed to rein in abusive, anonymous companies. (Portland Business Journal) The impoverished Democratic...
Struggling to Signal: Trump’s Dilemma with Arms Control Diplomacy: 18th April 2017
Maxwell Downman, Research Intern Capitol Washington Dispatches.jpeg Some believe the world is a safer place with Trump in the White House. In a recent RUSI brief, Dr Peter Roberts offered the view that Trump’s unpredictability, shown most recently by his Tomahawk cruise missile attack on Syria’s air base, ‘might cause many states to...
Germany, Russia, Ukraine, France Discuss Ukraine Peace Deal
April 18, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Reshaping NAFTA could be good for Mexico’s economy (and Brazil’s and Argentina’s, too)
Among other threats targeting Mexico during his election campaign, US President Donald Trump harshly criticised the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a 23-year-old tripartite deal that removed tariffs and significantly increased commerce between Canada, the United States and Mexico. Renegotiation of the deal is likely to start late...
Call for participation: Training for Young Journalists on Reporting on the EU-related issues
The Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy, Budapest-based think tank, together with the Institute of World Policy is organizing a training program for young Ukrainian journalists to deepen their understanding on the EU-related issues and procedures. …read more Source: Institute of World...
Caught Unaware and Unprepared
In 2013, Russian General Valery Gerasimov – currently the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia and the first Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation – published an article describing Russian military thinking and strategies. Known famously as the “Gerasimov’s Doctrine”, it defined information warfare as the...
Tortured to Death for Defending Ukraine’s Flag, Ukrainian Unity
It is three years since Volodymyr Rybak was abducted by Kremlin-backed militants when he tried to remove the flag of the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ from the seized Horlivka city council building. His tortured and mutilated body was found 5 days later, together with that of 19-year-old student Yury Popravko. …read more...
Supreme Court Candidate Exposed for Sentencing Innocent Man to Life Imprisonment
It is, of course, for the court to determine a man’s innocence, however in the case of life prisoner Volodymyr Panasenko, nobody has ever believed he is guilty. Now, after Panasenko has been in prison for over 10 years, his trial has proven a career nemesis for one of the judges who sentenced him. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
In the Information Battle with Post-Soviet States, the West Is Losing Ground
A new report examines how propaganda and disinformation are being disseminated across Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, and elsewhere, including across Europe and America—and what can be done about it. …read more Source: Open Society...
Kleptocracy Daily: April 17, 2017
A new documentary on the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, Hunting the KGB Killers, will premiere today on Britain’s Channel 4. News The House Intelligence Committee sent one of its members to the Mediterranean country where Wilbur Ross, Paul Manafort, and sanction-dodging oligarchs have all had money – Cyprus. (The Daily Beast) A mysterious...
