Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kleptocracy Daily: April 21, 2017
KI’s Executive Director Charles Davidson will be a panelist at a Hudson Institute event to discuss challenges and opportunities for U.S.-EU cooperation 4/25. Sign up or watch live. News Trump’s inaugural committee took $1 million from a Russian-American whose money the GOP rejected; The committee also took $1 million from Access...
Floating Nuke Plant Nears Completion in St. Petersburg
Ecologists say the city needs an emergency plan, just in case. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Chechen Leader Denies Reports of Gay Pogrom
Novaya Gazeta newspaper fears retribution from local Muslims infuriated over attack on their honor and faith. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Donbas Trade Blockade Poses a Challenge to Ukrainian Authorities
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s ad-hoc decision to authorise the trade blockade of Russia-occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions was taken to diminish the risk of political instability in the country. However, the blockade will not solve the problem of the lack of a coherent state policy towards that area and poses a...
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...
