Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine’s Security Service and Human Rights
At present the Security Service of Ukraine [SBU] is at the same time a security service and a law enforcement body. Nowhere in the civilized world do security services carry out law enforcement activities. Their purpose is to gather information within the framework of competence defined by law. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Russia’s UN envoy, Munich and Putin’s decree on Donbas passports
Russia’s UN envoy, Munich and Putin’s decree on Donbas passportsRussian media roundup: The death of Russia’s UN ambassador, the Munich International Security Conference and President Vladimir Putin’s decree on the acceptance of Donbas passports made headlinesRussian media roundup: The death of Russia’s UN ambassador,...
Russia and US offer very different views of the world in Munich
Russia and US offer very different views of the world in Munich Debates: Russia Direct interviewed prominent experts to figure out how they assess the results of the 2017 Munich International Security ConferenceDebates: Russia Direct interviewed prominent experts to figure out how they assess the results of the 2017 Munich International Security...
30 years since the death of General Petro Grigorenko
It is 30 years since the death of world-renowned human rights defender and vital voice in support of the Crimean Tatars. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
The Flynn Affair
TRANSCRIPT: JS – Hello everyone I am Jacob Shapiro, and I am the Director of Analysis for Geopolitical Futures. This is our first podcast, we are hoping to do one each week with one of our analysts, and to start us off, we are joined by George Friedman, who is our chairman, and founder. Thank you for joining us George. GF – Always a pleasure. JS...
A sentence for a repost
Politics – And we seem to be fighting it but the results are negligible. And results in this case mean jail. So where are the imprisonments? Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Presidium of the Government on smuggling Our subsequent summary report published in February 2015 indicates a sharp increase in the number of sentences for online...
Watch List: Feb. 20, 2017
The items listed below represent potential emerging issues that our analysts are tracking. These can be long term or short term, but will be updated daily. If an item on our Watch List becomes critical, we will email you a full analysis explaining its significance. Each Saturday, we will follow up our daily Watch List for each week with our...
Moldovan Artist Gives Tangible Form to “Theft of the Century”
According to its creator, the piles of fake bills totaling the billion dollars that went missing from local banks is meant to show the scale of the fraud. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Courtesy of Trump Associates
February 20, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Demonstrations Throughout Belarus Against “Parasite” Law
Authorities decide not to quash the protests – at least for now. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
