Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Nord Stream 2: the Gazprom pipeline accelerating the reconfiguration of European gas flows
By Nolan Theisen. Photo|tomtunguz.comFollowing the cancellation of South Stream, Nord Stream 2 (NS2) represents Gazprom’s last opportunity to effectively bypass Ukraine entirely for continental European deliveries, a troubling development in Brussels. At the same time, it offers a direct line to western European markets with declining...
Come dine with me
Following the last few days, it would seem the Brexit negotiations have begun to turn sour. EU leaders have accused the Prime Minister of “living in a different galaxy” and suggested that her demands are “delusional” – terms hardly conducive to a cooperative and collaborative negotiating atmosphere. High level leaks of Juncker and May’s...
World Trade Organisation gives Australia’s plain tobacco packs the (draft) thumbs up
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reportedly backed Australia’s laws on plain tobacco packaging implemented from December 2012. The apparent decision marks the end of the last of three cases brought against Australia’s plain packaging; it will almost certainly open the floodgates and see other nations implementing the measure....
