Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Watch List: Dec. 20, 2016
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...
Putin and Trump: Where From Here?
They might outwardly seem willing to wheel and deal. But it’s increasingly difficult to see how any agreement might actually look. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Turkey and Russia’s relationship is strong enough to survive ambassador’s murder
When Russia’s Ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was shot dead during a photo exhibition in the Turkish capital of Ankara, it threatened to deal a terrible blow to one of the world’s most important and most sensitive diplomatic relationships. During the attack, the gunman, 22-year old Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, shouted about...
Operation “Oblivion”
Society In Russia, as in much of the post-Soviet space, the past is the present. From Ukraine, to Belarus, to Poland and Lithuania, historical narratives of communism, World War II, the Holocaust, and the Holodomor—Ukraine’s Terror-Famine—are being reviewed, revised, and in many cases manipulated to serve new ideological trends. In Russia,...
Ukraine Army ‘Repulsed Rebel Attack’ Near Debaltseve in East
December 20, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
The Vicious Circle of Arms Control and Regional Conflict
A recent decision by the OSCE to revive arms-control talks is unlikely to achieve much without simultaneous efforts to resolve protracted conflicts in Eastern Europe. …read more Source: Carnegie...
Crime and Punishment is 150 – and its politics are more relevant than ever
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is now 150 years since the publication of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. An incredibly influential novel, Crime and Punishment also has a particularly contemporary political significance. The plot hinges on how, one summer’s day in St Petersurg, a penniless student, Raskolnikov, murders an old woman...
GIJN Welcomes Seven New Members from Six Countries
The Global Investigative Journalism Network is delighted to welcome seven new member organizations. We are especially pleased to welcome for the first time groups from Ireland and Malawi. Also among the new members are investigative centers from India, Ukraine, and Slovenia, a journalism fund from Ireland, and a collaborative news site that...
NATO urges Russia to persuade Ukraine rebels to honour truce
NATO yesterday (19 December) urged Russia to use its clout with insurgents in Eastern Ukraine to make a troubled truce stick, as the two sides held talks to defuse what are the worst tensions since the Cold War. …read more Source:...
UN General Assembly condemns Russia’s occupation of Crimea and rights violations
As well as openly calling Russia’s behaviour occupation, the General Assembly’resolution is important in identifying the grave rights violations under Russian occupation and demands the release of all unlawfully held Ukrainian citizens. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
