Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Canadian-born Myron Spolsky: “Many processes which occurred in the early days of independence should have been finished that time, but they are unnecessarily slow.”
Written by: Taras Kosiuk, Yevgeny Matyushenko Source: UNIAN UNIAN sat down with Myron Spolsky, one of the leaders of the Ukrainian scouting organization Plast, an entrepreneur who has once moved from Canada to Ukraine and observed how the Ukrainian state and society have been changing over the years of independence. Mr Spolsky told his story of...
April 12th, 2017
CHINA China Urged to Come Clean About “Grotesque” Level of Capital Punishment Simon Denyer, WASHINGTON POST China is the world’s biggest executioner, putting to death considerably more people every year than the rest of the world combined. Yet its “horrifying” use of the death penalty remains shrouded in secrecy and plagued by injustice,...
Cold War II? What history can tell us about the present
shutterstock/Everett Historicalk/Russia’s relationship with the West is on a knife edge, with multiple allegations of Russian involvement in the affairs of other countries. But are these the beginnings of “Cold War II”? And can Cold War history provide potential lessons for today’s politicians? As US secretary of state Rex Tillerson...
Is Europeanization losing its sex appeal?
In late 2008, at the onset of the global economic crisis which put the European Union, and especially its single currency, at the core, a new approach to Europe’s relations with its eastern neighbours was starting to take form. It was in December when the idea of the Eastern Partnership was officially put on paper. The document,...
Pro-Ukrainian victim of savage attack faces ’extremism’ sentence for Crimea is Ukraine post
Ukrainian activist Ihor Movenko is facing criminal prosecution in Russian-occupied Crimea for so-called ‘extremism’, 7 months after a vicious attack on the 39-year-old from Sevastopol resulted in administrative charges against the victim, and no criminal investigation against the man who attacked him. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Russian war crimes in Ukraine are of interest, Mr Tillerson
Exactly 3 years ago, former Russian military intelligence officer Igor Girkin, with heavily armed Russian and pro-Russian militants seized Sloviansk in the Donetsk oblast, beginning a Russian-funded, armed and manned war that has continued to this day …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Putin’s National Guard Cracks Down On Opposition Activists In Irkutsk
Although the official mission of the National Guard is to combat terrorism, many in Russia believe its true purpose is to protect Vladimir Putin and the government. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
For Rex Tillerson in Russia, stakes are high and outlook is dim
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is welcomed by U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Tefft Maxim Shemetov/ReutersDonald Trump entered office in January vowing to improve US relations with Russia. Less than three months into his presidency, however, the prospects for a rapprochement with Putin seem to be as remote as they have been under any of his...
Ramzan Kadyrov: Russia’s Top Diplomat
Security The influence of Ramzan Kadyrov, who has ruled the Republic of Chechnya since 2007, stretches far beyond the Caucasus. Due to the peculiarities of Russia’s political system, Kadyrov’s dictatorship has long had a sizeable impact on Russia’s wider domestic policy. It does not stop there: the Kremlin is increasingly using...
The EU and the Ukraine Crisis
November 7, 2016 │CGI’s new working paper explores how pragmatic economic cooperation between the European Union and Russia could serve as a foundation for solving the Ukraine conflict. …read more Source: Center on Global...
