Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Cyber attacks ten years on: from disruption to disinformation
The solider of Tallinin, a bronze statue that triggered the first recognised cyber attack. 65817306@N00/flickr , CC BY-NCToday is the tenth anniversary of the world’s first major coordinated “cyber attack” on a nation’s internet infrastructure. This little-known event set the scene for the onrush of cyber espionage, fake news and...
Danish companies Support and Assist Ukraine’s Economic Transition
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko felt quite content, during his visit to Copenhagen in early April 2017, when he heard leading Danish companies that already work, or plan to invest, in Ukraine say that they had already noticed practical results of the reforms. “This is a very good advertisement for potential investors to come and work with...
Policing the Digital Metropolis: Technology and the Metropolitan Police Service
Only when the Met chooses to embrace new technologies will it realise its goal of becoming, in its own words, ‘the first truly digital police force’. Download the article (PDF)As the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, takes over control of the largest police force in the country, the Met’s vision for the future...
Kleptocracy Daily: April 26, 2017
The Justice Department “will continue to strongly enforce the FCPA and other anti-corruption laws…[corruption] increases the cost of doing business and hurts honest companies that don’t pay these bribes.” -AG Jeff Sessions, speaking at the Ethics and Compliance Initiative Annual Conference in Washington, DC. The heads of the House Oversight...
April 26th, 2017
CHINA China Convicts US Businesswoman of Spying Chun Han Wong and Charles Hutzler, WALL STREET JOURNAL A Chinese court convicted a long-detained American businesswoman of espionage and ordered her imprisoned and deported in a case seen as a barometer of US-China relations. After a half-day trial Tuesday, the court ordered Phan Phan-Gillis...
Crimean Tatar Ruslan Zeytullaev gets 12-year sentence to meet Russian FSB quota
Russian judges have done what they’re told and sentenced Crimean Tatar political prisoner Ruslan Zeytullaev to 12 years’ maximum security because the FSB needed an ‘organizer’ for its paperwork. The retrial and this sentence are especially chilling since there are three other men charged under the same type of quota, and they...
Past events at the IEP (Germany)
Study Visit: Representatives of the Ukrainan Parliament and Civil Society Organisations visit Berlin and Brussels 13-18 March 2017, Berlin and Brussels From 13 to 18 March the Institut für Europäische Politik invited 22 participants including representatives of Ukrainian civil society organisations and staffers of the European Integration and...
Donald Trump’s ‘East Asianisation’ of Europe
What is President Donald Trump’s real approach to both NATO, and the US security guarantee to Europe?The election of Donald Trump as US president has created unprecedented uncertainty about America’s security guarantee towards its allies in Europe.If there was a rational core of his critique of NATO, it seemed to be that it should...
Recent publications by the Institute of International Relations (Czech Republic)
Mark Galeotti, The Modern Russian Army 1992-2016 Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia’s army has undergone a turbulent transformation, from the scattered left-overs of the old Soviet military, through a period of shocking decay and demoralization, to the disciplined force and sophisticated ‘hybrid war’ doctrine that enabled...
Oleg Sentsov Sends Moving Letter in Response to Major Award from PEN America
PEN America’s honouring of Ukrainian filmmaker and political prisoner Oleg Sentsov at its 2017 PEN Literary Gala would have been a very special event under any circumstances. It was made particularly poignant by the letter from Oleg that was heard for the first time, together with a powerful address from his cousin Natalya Kaplan who...
