Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Swedish Tech Entrepreneurs Find Top Talent and Warm Welcome in Ukraine
Gustav Henman describes his time at Moscow State University as a “Russian cold shower.” But he was no stranger to cold weather as a Swede, and has ended up in Ukraine, where the weather is slightly more moderate and the engineering talent plentiful.He and his business partner, Andreas Flodström, went to Ukraine in 2012 and now own an IT...
The degree of militarism
Security According to the 2017 draft federal budget of the Russian Federation (RF), a cut in national defense spending is planned. Some experts interpret this as a reason for optimism as it would seem that Russia is not seeking to escalate military conflicts in the coming year. What is really behind the planned reduction in military spending?...
December 12th, 2016
CHINA China Puts Dissidents Under House Arrest for Human Rights DayRADIO FREE ASIA China on Friday detained key dissidents, placing some under house arrest amid growing calls for a tougher US stance on Beijing’s rights record ahead of World Human Rights Day. As rights activists and former prisoners of conscience gave testimony to...
Global Shock: What To Expect from a Trump Presidency
The election of Donald Trump to succeed Barack Obama as U.S. president came as a shock to many. With a Republican majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate, Trump’s victory could mean a shift away from many of the policies of the Obama Administration and brings into question the future role of the United States in the...
Crimean Tatar rights activist placed in psychiatric clinic on eve of Human Rights Day
Emir-Huseyn Kuku, a human rights activist imprisoned in Russian-occupied Crimea on gravely flawed charges has been placed in a psychiatric clinic. This is purportedly for a ‘psychiatric assessment’, but the lack of any grounds and forced hospitalization make charges of punitive psychiatry in his case and that of five other prisoners...
Russia: ‘Illegal’ Ukrainian fining of Gazprom puts EU consumers at risk
Russian energy Minister Alexander Novak has called a $6.6 billion fine imposed by a court in Ukraine on his country’s gas export monopolist Gazprom illegal, and warned of “new risks for European consumers”. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian activist arrested on fabricated charges in Russian-occupied Crimea
Crimean activist Volodymyr Balukh has been arrested by the Russian FSB just 10 days after he hung a plaque on his home in memory of the people killed during Euromaidan. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Torture, threats & absurd ‘confessions’ in FSB’s new ‘Crimean saboteur’ plots
The FSB’s new Crimean ‘plots’, in their use of torture, televised ‘confessions’ and grandiose claims, bear an eerie similarity to the first Crimean arrests in May 2014 of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and other opponents of Russia’s occupation, but there are some key differences …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Information war monitor for Central Europe: November 2016 US Elections
By Lóránt Győri, Patrik Szicherle, Veronika Víchová, Daniel Milo, Katarína Klingová. Photo: Flickr|Darron Birgenheier, licensed by CC BY-SA 2.0.GLOBSEC Policy Institute’s bi-weekly overview of conventional and social media discourse in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia monitors propaganda and disinformation attempts, as well as...
Trump’s man in Moscow claims ‘misinformation’ about Crimea, Ukraine was ‘catastrophic’ & sanctions don’t work
Kremlin-funded media are careful to refer to Carter Page as Donald “Trump ex-adviser” but the coverage they are giving to Page’s current visit to Moscow is certainly not that accorded a person whose influence and role are in the past …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
