Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Philippines and the economics of murder
After slow-drip revelations last month that several members of the Philippine National Police Anti-Illegal Drugs Group had kidnapped and killed a South Korean businessman in October 2016, a reluctant Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called off his “war on drugs” at the end of January. It was particularly embarrassing for the government that...
Is it time for an NHS tax?
Major historical moments are rarely caused by a single event. No single explanation for the result of the Brexit referendum tells the whole truth. Like the Scottish independence referendum of 2014, Brexit was a very personal epiphany. Your reasons for voting Leave – or, indeed, Remain – were not necessarily the same as your neighbour’s....
We must not disguise the truth about honour violence
Honour violence often entails cruel and horrifying brutality. Last week, in Afghanistan, a 23-year old woman had her ears cut off by her husband in the northern province of Balkh. She’d been married to him since the age of 13. He was suspicious of her meeting other men when she visited her parents. It’s not an isolated case. This time...
China and Russia: an Eastern partnership in the making?
This Chaillot Paper, co-authored by Michal Makocki and Nicu Popescu, sets out to evaluate the scope and the actual implementation of the ‘pivot to the East’ announced by Moscow in the wake of its confrontation with the West over Ukraine. In particular, the study dwells on the ‘pivot within the pivot’ represented by Russia-China...
Tatar leader: ‘Crimea will be free’
It is only through repression and fear that occupying regimes can stay in power, Crimean Tatar leader, and former Soviet dissident Mustafa Dzhemilew, told Euractiv Poland. …read more Source:...
Kremlin denies French election meddling, Macron camp renews charges
The Kremlin yesterday (14 February) denied that it was behind media and internet attacks on the campaign of French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron, though his camp renewed the charges against Russian media and a group of hackers operating in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Poisoned Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza: “What can I do if someone wants to kill me?”
Interview given by the Russian opposition activist in October 2016 …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
Defence denied Crimean Tatar leader on trial for saying Russia must leave Crimea
In a move as unexpected as it is lawless, Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov has been deprived of his defence lawyer Nikolai Polozov. The Crimean Supreme Court under Russian occupation rejected Polozov’s appeal against a ruling allowing Polozov to be interrogated as a ‘witness’ in Umerov’s case. A …read more Source: Kharkiv...
Another Rights Activist ‘Deported’ from Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia is increasingly using citizenship as one of its weapons against dissent and civic activism in occupied Crimea. It has claimed that imprisoned Crimean filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko ‘automatically’ became Russian citizens as its excuse for not returning the two Ukrainian political prisoners, yet uses...
Reflection: Sebastian Gorka – Medieval or Modern?
Photo by Sebastian Gorka via Wikipedia‘s Wikimedia Commons. Three factors led to Russia’s defeat and any outside actor will have to deal with these factors should they wish to drastically change the Afghan reality in a lasting way. To change Afghanistan, an outside power must do the following: install a national leader who is a Pashtun but...
