Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
LGBTI in Russia: history of success, opportunities and challenges
2000s: Development of movement and public support The LGBTI movement in Russia was on the rise in the middle of 2000-s. At that time LGBTI activists founded key organisations and launched several initiatives for defending their rights, awareness-building and researching of public opinion. The first gay pride was organised by a GayRussia...
Belarus: With Friends Like These. . .
Belarus and Russia share strong historical ties, but differences between the two countries following the annexation of Crimea call into question how durable this partnership is today. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Ukraine’s Naftogaz says it won Stockholm court case against Gazprom
Ukraine’s Naftogaz said yesterday (31 May) an arbitration court in Stockholm had ruled in its favour in a dispute with Gazprom over take-or-pay gas contracts, although the Russian firm said the ruling was an interim stage in the court process. …read more Source:...
Russia begins trial of Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov by removing his defence lawyer
Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Ilmi Umerov is facing a five-year sentence for saying that Russia should leave Crimea and Donbas, with the preliminary hearing as parody-like as one would expect under such circumstances …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Kremlin muffles question to Macron & Putin about jailed Ukrainian journalist
The Kremlin’s record of questions put to the Presidents of France and Russia at their joint May 30 press conference omits any message of imprisoned Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko. Human rights are also given a wide berth although they were also certainly raised at question-time. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Farewell to the Transatlantic Academy
Dear friends, After nine very successful fellowship years, the Transatlantic Academy is formally closing on June 1, 2017. It held its final conference on May 23, reuniting its former fellows and the Academy’s partners. The German Ambassador to the United States, the Honorable Peter Wittig, hosted a reception at the conclusion of the...
Saying Farewell to the Transatlantic Academy
Last week marked the closing conference of the Transatlantic Academy. For the last nine years, the Transatlantic Academy has brought together scholars and policy experts to explore different dimensions of the transatlantic relationship. For the final year, we focused on the relationship between Germany and the United States. The launch of the...
Ukraine – Westbound and Down . . . .
The “war news” — not so good: Confirmed reportage: http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/reports Breaking: https://www.unian.info/war/1951929-russian-artillery-systems-in-donbas-start-to-shell-at-longer-distance.html –33–Filed under: 21st Century Feudal, Conflict – Culture – Language – Psychology, Ukraine Tagged: business, freedom,...
May 31st, 2017
CHINA China police detain gay activists after Xian event canceledU.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT Police in China’s northwestern city of Xian briefly detained nine gay activists, saying the city did not welcome gay people, after they tried to organize a gay rights conference there, one of the activists told Reuters on Wednesday. The move came as...
May 30th, 2017
CHINA China’s Social Credit System: a big-data enabled approach to market regulation with broad implications for doing business in China Mirjam Meissner, MERCATOR INSTITUTE FOR CHINA STUDIES Under the catchphrase “Social Credit System” China is in the process of implementing a new and highly ambitious scheme to monitor, rate, and regulate...
