Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Cheers, Caveats Greet Birth of Ukraine’s ‘Three-Parent Baby’
Ethics, safety concerns hang over the controversial treatment, so far approved by medical regulators only in the UK. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Facebook Snafu Briefly Silences Russia’s RT
The huge state-funded international broadcaster also loses access to Twitter-based data mining service. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
NATO-Russia Relations in 2017: Hostage of a Post-Truth World?
Editor’s Note: Dominik P. Jankowski is head of OSCE and Eastern Security Unit at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was Marshall Memorial Fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States in 2012. Post-truth became a fundamental element in shaping international relations in 2016. There is no doubt that Russia actively helped...
Commentary: Means, goals and consequences of the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign
There is no doubt that the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign is an orchestrated strategy, delivering the same disinformation stories in as many languages as possible, through as many channels as possible, and as often as possible. Our conclusion is based on 15 months of daily collection of data on disinformation: more than 2,500 examples in 18...
Russian Poet Faces New Criminal Charges for Poem in Support of Ukraine
Alexander Byvshev is facing another prosecution under Russia’s ‘anti-extremism’ legislation over a poem entitled ‘On Ukraine’s Independence’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Cyber Operations Against Ukraine’s Grid
Feb 4, 2016Director Michael Sulmeyer of the Cyber Security Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs welcomed industry experts Robert Lee, CEO of Dragos Security and former U.S. Air Force Cyber Warfare Operations Officer, and Mudge, founder of the Cyber Independent Testing Laboratory, with previous experience as a DoD...
Nonproliferation or nuclear modernization: What path will Trump follow?
Nonproliferation or nuclear modernization: What path will Trump follow?When Putin and Trump meet for the first time, one major topic of discussion could be the fate of each nation’s nuclear missile systemsWhen Putin and Trump meet for the first time, one major topic of discussion could be the fate of each nation’s nuclear missile...
Ukraine Confident US Support Will Not Waver
‘Channeling Brussels’ with Yehor Bozhok, Ukraine’s acting head of mission at NATO While the United States’ allies in Europe have been shaken by US President-elect Donald Trump’s description of NATO as “obsolete” and his suggestion that he may consider relaxing US sanctions imposed on Russia for its actions in Ukraine,...
Obama’s Wasted, Deadly, and Destructive Presidency
Eight years ago, President Obama’s administration started with hope and change. Eight years later, we end up with a legacy of nothing but waste, death, and destruction.Libertarians never had any hope, of course, that Barack Obama would dismantle any aspect of the welfare state. As a died-in-the-wool liberal, his commitment to socialism,...
Trump’s inaugural address will probably end up as just a footnote in history
All eyes are now on Donald J. Trump’s impending inauguration, which takes place in Washington DC, on January 20, and whose centrepiece is the inaugural address. But despite the attention lavished on these speeches by aides, speechwriters, newspaper columnists and pundits, few of them earn a place in history. There are, of course, some...
