Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kleptocracy Daily: May 11, 2017
News Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is reportedly at odds with his former Turkish client over two unusual payments totaling $80,000. The disagreement points to inconsistencies in Flynn’s accounts to the U.S. government about his work for foreign interests. Federal prosecutors issued grand jury subpoenas to associates of...
Visa-free travel for Ukrainians clears final hurdle
The European Council today (11 May) approved visa-free travel for Ukrainians, fulfilling a key promise to cement ties with Kyiv as it remains embroiled in a deadly conflict with Russian-backed rebels. …read more Source:...
The Amber Rush in Ukraine
Illegal amber mining in Ukraine has intensified since the Revolution of dignity. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
The Amber Rusch in Ukraine
Illegal amber mining in Ukraine has intensified since the Revolution of dignity. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Macron vs Central Europe
After the victory of Emmanuel Macron, congratulations arrived from all over the world. Here is a selection of letters and messages from Central Europe: “Your victory is a happy day for all who believe in a united and strong Europe,” President Andrej Kiska of Slovakia wrote in a telegram. Meanwhile, the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, stressed...
Policy Memo to the Ukrainian leadership regarding the election of the Emmanuel Macron as the President of French Republic
The election of the new president of the French Republic is an important change that could advance the Ukraine-French relations and Ukraine-EU relations. In this regard, the Institute of World Policy developed several recommendations to maintain and develop relations between the two countries. In particular, the priorities should be the following...
Why we need an international freedom movement
France’s election of a centrist pro-Europe president has offered us all some respite, but, in many respects, the world still seems headed for dark times. There’s bloodshed in Syria with no end in sight, massacres in Yemen, South Sudan and Myanmar and a recent resumption of intense fighting in Ukraine. It also hints at a deeper...
Eurovision shines spotlight on LGBT struggle in Ukraine
Ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest final in Kyiv, an extravaganza embraced by the LGBT community, Ukraine’s “Celebrate Diversity” motto sounds more like wishful thinking than a fact of life. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s Security Service denies alleged link to killing of journalist Pavel Sheremet
An SBU spokesperson has dismissed one aspect of a journalist investigation into the killing in July 2016 of Kyiv-based Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet, while leaving the key questions raised by the disturbing investigation unanswered …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Speak out for those whom Russia stops from being at Eurovision
Spare a thought – and some time for the initiative #NoEurovisionFor for the 44 Ukrainian political prisoners who cannot be at the Eurovision competition currently underway in Kyiv, nor even see it from their prisons in Russia, or Russian-occupied Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
