Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
‘Witnesses’ in hiding from Russia’s Soviet trial of Ukrainian journalist in Crimea
It was unfortunately only the latest hearing that got cancelled on World Press Freedom Day, not the insane criminal charges that Russia has brought against Crimean journalist Mykola Semena for exercising freedom of speech …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
The Holy Alliance: How American Evangelicals Helped Shape Russia’s Anti-LGBT Laws
How Russia became the religious right’s next frontier. May 3, 2017 By Kasey Stricklin Photo: Kremlin Russia has never been a paragon of LGBT rights, to put it mildly. The history of the Russian LGBT community includes imprisonment in penal colonies and gulags, physical violence and harassment, bans on public gay pride events, and a...
What is the Liberal International Order?
Photo credit: Drop of Light / Shutterstock.com In the last five years or so, U.S. and European foreign policy think tanks have become increasingly preoccupied with threats to the set of norms, rules, and institutions known as the liberal international order, especially from “revisionist” rising powers and above all authoritarian powers like China...
Three Questions with Bruce Jones
The Marshall Plan was conceived and implemented 70 years ago. Since then, many aid and development initiatives and institutions of greater scale have been created. Why does the Marshall Plan still matter after 70 years? First of all, I challenge the premise of greater scale. If you look at the percentage of the federal budget that the United...
An American’s Death in Ukraine Is a Wake-Up Call for Russia and the West
Unless the United States and its allies increase diplomatic pressure on Moscow, the violence in Ukraine will continue to kill innocent people. …read more Source: Open Society...
Navalny Accuses Russian Government of Green Dye Attack
Protesters throughout the country took to the streets this weekend, with letters asking Putin not to run for a fourth term. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Fake Newness of Fake News
World faked out by phenomenon known oh so well in Eastern Europe! …read more Source: Transitions Online...
EU support for media freedom – looking East: Turkey, Western Balkans, Eastern Partnership, Russia
Written by Naja Bentzen, Velina Lilyanova, Philippe Perchoc, Martin Russell, with Clare Ferguson Each year, on 3 May, UNESCO reminds the world of the importance of press freedom to creating peaceful societies which value justice and human rights. This year’s World Press Freedom Day takes the theme of ‘Critical Minds for Critical...
Kleptocracy Daily: May 3, 2017
News Despite his promise to “drain the swamp”, 3 months after Trump moved into the White House at least 9 people who worked on his transition have registered as lobbyists. Russia kicked off the trial of a prominent New York real-estate developer and former Guggenheim Museum board member who is accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars...
Merkel, Putin: No Alternative to Minsk Deal on Ukraine
May 3, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
