Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Anton Naumlyuk honoured for vital coverage of Ukrainian political trials in Crimea & Russia
Anton Naumlyuk, a Russian journalist who has fearlessly reported on numerous politically motivated prosecutions of Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians in occupied Crimea and Russia, has become one of the laureates of the 2017 Free Media Awards …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Armed searches & jail for deleted reposts to silence protest in Russian-occupied Crimea
Tofik Abdulgaziev and his family were subjected to an armed search on Thursday, almost certainly as a warning to stop reporting cases of repression. In the meantime, the jailing of civic activist Remzi Bekirov, purportedly for a 7-year-old post on a long-deleted VKontakte page, has been upheld …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Failure to Register
KleptoCast 15: Casey Michel talks to Laure Brillaud of Transparency International about a new report on European anti-money laundering efforts. Listen to previous episodes on iTunes. http://kleptocracyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/15.-EU-Beneficial-Ownership-Schemes-Laure-Brillaud-5.3.17.mp3By Casey Michel Last year’s Panama...
Kleptocracy Daily: May 4, 2017
News A firm co-founded by Donald Trump’s initial campaign manager quietly agreed to lobby for the oil company Citgo as the company, which is owned by the leftist government of Venezuela, was becoming increasingly embroiled in tensions involving the United States, Venezuela and Russia. U.S. government-backed Voice of America has suspended...
It’s time to tackle pensioner benefits
The IFS has produced one of its characteristically insightful analyses of the UK’s fiscal situation in the run-up to the General Election. Much of it is familiar territory, covering the large rise in taxes of recent years, taking us to levels seen previously in the late 1980s. It also notes the work still to do in eliminating the deficit....
Living Arrangements in the Workers’ Paradise
In a centrally planned socialist economy like the one that existed in the Soviet Union, the government determined every detail of the national economy. This also meant that it determined the details of its workers’ personal lives, including where they lived, what jobs they took up, and where they could move. The Soviet Union had extensive...
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...
