Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine’s reformist central bank chief resigns
Ukraine’s reformist central bank chief, Valeriya Gontareva, submitted her resignation today (10 April) after coming under intense pressure from tycoons whose banks were shut down for illegal transactions and loans. …read more Source:...
European Parliament approves visa liberalization for Ukraine
It’s finally happened! The European Parliament on April 6 voted to lift visa requirements for Ukrainians wishing to travel to anywhere in the Schengen zone. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
After Praise and Death Threats, Ukraine’s Central Bank Governor Quits
April 10, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
2 Crimean Tatars on trial for a pre-annexation pro-Ukraine rally released under house arrest
Ali Asanov and Mustafa Degermendzhy are home with their families after almost two years in custody. Both are under house arrest and their surreal trial is continuing, but at least they have been freed from custody. Russia is continuing to hold Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Akhtem Chiygoz in custody and prevent him from even attending his own trial...
Kleptocracy Daily: April 6, 2017
KI will host Oleksander Danyliuk, Minister of Finance of Ukraine, for a discussion with Walter Russell Mead at Hudson Institute on April 19. Sign up or watch live. News The UK published a groundbreaking proposal for a public register showing the beneficial owners of property owned by foreign companies. UBS is off the hook in Switzerland’s...
Tightening the RuNet Screws
Russian lawmakers want to ban kids from social media, require ‘real name’ registration. From Global Voices. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
MEPs approve visa-free travel for Ukrainians
The European Parliament today (6 April) supported easing travel rules for Ukrainians, driving on a Western integration viewed with great suspicion by Moscow. …read more Source:...
Fake News in the Service of Post-Truth Belarus
The fate of the Independent Institute for Socio-Economic and Political Studies emphasizes the need to protect the few remaining independent sources of information in the country. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
With crackdown on protests, Russia’s new friend Belarus tightens its grip on power
Recent months have seen unprecedented social protest in Belarus. According to Human Rights Watch, citizen mobilisation has also resulted in mass and arbitrary arrests of demonstrators, human rights activists and journalists in this authoritarian nation. On orders of President Aleksandr Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994, some 1,000...
Politics podcast: Matthew Sussex on Russia’s long game
A cloud continues to hover over Russian interference in the US presidential election. Associate professor Matthew Sussex, academic director at the Australian National University’s National Security College and a specialist in Russian foreign and strategic policy, says Russia’s meddling has been “exceptionally damaging”. “I think that...
