Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russia reinstates darkest Soviet days by banning the Jehovah’s Witnesses
Russia’s Supreme Court has ignored the country’s Constitution and the decades of religious persecution under Soviet rule and banned the Jehovah’s Witnesses, labelling them ‘extremist’. It has thus placed over 170 thousand believers in the Russian Federation in danger of criminal prosecution for their faith. …read...
Assessing Turkey’s Power in the Balkans
Summary This report examines Turkey’s interests in the Balkans and the resources the country has at its disposal to pursue those interests. The report focuses on three main areas: economic relationships, investment and religious influence. We conclude that while Turkey has an interest in projecting power into the Balkans, its tools for...
Friday essay: King, Queen and country – will Anzac thwart republicanism?
Queen Elizabeth II meets with Australian Defence Force personnel and veterans at the Australian War Memorial in 2011. Graham Tidy/AAPOn the morning of 16 February 1954, Charles Bean and his wife Effie drove along Canberra’s Anzac Parade towards the Australian War Memorial. As their official car approached the building, crowds of onlookers...
New film on Armenian Genocide strikes the right balance
Go see The Promise, a movie opening nationwide tomorrow. Hollywood has mostly ignored the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks during World War I, and subsequently pursued by the Turkish Republic. Continue Reading… Related posts:‘Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?’ Ukraine’s...
Trump’s foreign policy is looking more traditional than he promised
UO Donald Trump campaigned to be a radical and disruptive president, and not just on the domestic front. His views on America’s role in the world suggested he would drastically re-orient the country’s global economic and political priorities, turning away from the US’s traditional superpower role. Many observers expected his...
UN Court Rejects Key Part of Ukraine’s Case against Moscow
But ICJ orders Russia to stop discriminating against the Tatars in Crimea. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
April 20th, 2017
CHINA Criticism of Beijing’s North Korea Policy Comes From Unlikely Place: China Chris Buckley, THE NEW YORK TIMES When China’s best-known historian of the Korean War, Shen Zhihua, recently laid out his views on North Korea, astonishment rippled through the audience. China, he said with a bluntness that is rare in the country, had...
#NewNormal: From East Ukraine to South Russia
Video | Since 2014, this family has been huddling in a small rented house. But they are happy that they have found a safe place for their children. They had to flee Gorlovka in eastern Ukraine amid heavy shelling. …read more Source: International Committee of the Red...
Russian Journalist Dies after St. Petersburg Attack
Nikolai Andrushchenko, once a city councilor, became a thorn in the side of local politicians. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine: A warm room and hot tea at a contentious checkpoint
Article | The line of contact between Lugansk in Ukraine and Stanytsia Luhanska is a vital road of commerce. Red Cross volunteers help visitors who cross the checkpoint by providing health care, medical assistance and food. …read more Source: International Committee of the Red...
