Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kleptocracy Daily: April 14, 2017
Hudson Institute’s Hannah Thoburn and David Satter discuss what it means for the U.S. to have a good relationship with Russia. KI will host Oleksander Danyliuk, Minister of Finance of Ukraine, for a discussion with Walter Russell Mead at Hudson Institute on April 19. Sign up or watch live. News Corruption cases in Asia are a stark warning...
April 14th, 2017
CHINA China Says Its Trade With North Korea has Increased Jane Perlez and Yufan Huang, THE NEW YORK TIMES Amid sharply rising tensions over North Korea’s nuclear arms program, China said on Thursday that its trade with the country had expanded, even though it had complied with United Nations sanctions and stopped buying North Korean coal,...
The Fate of Independent Media in Crimea
After the Russian annexation, journalists had to choose between leaving, embracing a pro-Russian stance, or avoiding politics altogether. From Euroradio. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Moscow Gears Up for Giant Renewal Project
10 percent of city residents could be forced out of Soviet-era apartments. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Moldovan ‘Theft of the Century’ Solved?
Authorities could soon start bringing home some of the vanished $1 billion. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukrainian Prosecutor’s strange attempt to help Russian FSB foiled
Asylum-seeker Shakhban Isakov has been released from custody 10 days after a Ukrainian prosecutor demanded and obtained his arrest pending extradition despite serious grounds for believing he would be in danger if forcibly returned to Russia, and for questioning the charges which Russia is laying against him …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Batons & gunshots in new arrests of Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea
Two Crimean Tatars have been jailed in Russian-occupied Crimea for so-called ‘propaganda of extremism’ after armed and masked officers, including from Putin’s ‘Rozgvardiya’, burst into their homes early on April 13. Five other men, two middle-aged men with serious health problems were also detained, some beaten and four of...
Russia found in violation of the right to life over Beslan School attack
The European Court of Human Rights [ECHR] has found multiple violations of the right to life over Russia’s failure to take preventive measures against the terrorist attack on a school in Beslan in 2004 and over the subsequent storming in which over 330 people, including 185 children lost their lives …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Don’t Blame Tillerson for Trump’s Chaotic Foreign Policy
Christopher A. Preble In his less than ten weeks on the job as secretary of state, Rex Tillerson has found himself subjected to almost daily criticism. Vladimir Putin initially refusing to meet with him. In the end, the two men did meet, but made little headway. During a meeting with European foreign ministers, he wondered aloud, “Why should U.S....
Don’t Start a New Cold War over Syria
Ted Galen Carpenter Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Moscow this week for his previously scheduled official visit with Russian officials. His journey came at a time when the chill in bilateral relations is especially acute following the U.S. missile strikes on Syria in response to the Assad government’s alleged use of chemical...
