Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Security in Transition. How to Counter Aggression with Limited Resources
IWP report analyzes security options for Ukraine based on five models: cooperation with NATO, regional security pacts, armed neutrality, bilateral security instruments, and the asymmetrical model. …read more Source: Institute of World...
6 Months Solitary Confinement & new charges for reporting torture in Russian prison
Since recounting how he had been subjected to torture, Russian civic activist and prisoner of conscience Ildar Dadin has been threatened with criminal proceedings, a ‘defamation’ suit and has been placed in solitary confinement for 6 months …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Putin’s cynical lies about Oleg Sentsov debunked by International Criminal Court
President Putin’s claim that Russia is a law-based country and that Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years for ‘terrorism’ clash with the findings of the International Criminal Court on Russia’s invasion and ongoing occupation of Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Oliver Stone’s “Ukraine on Fire” is undistilled Kremlin propaganda
The problem with ‘Ukraine on Fire’, Pavel Shekhtman writes, is that Oliver Stone mechanically illustrates Russian myths and the postulates of Kremlin propaganda that have been foisted on him. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
THREE DEAFEATS OF “RUSSIAN WORLD.”
It named the most fundamental Putin’s defeat December 2, 2016 Putin lost in Ukraine and Syria In recent years, the Kremlin has suffered just three major foreign policy defeat, the most fundamental of which – the defeat in Ukraine. This opinion was “Internet” stated a Russian political scientist, journalist, politician Andrei Piontkovsky....
Watch List Findings: Dec. 3, 2016
What follows are the preliminary findings for issues identified in the daily Watch Lists this week. We are only sending findings that we regard as significant or potentially significant to keep this email manageable. We have findings for all the Watch List items. Should you be interested in findings not listed here, please contact us and we will...
Kleptocracy Weekly: Nov. 26-Dec. 3, 2016
New from KI Casey Michel looks at how opaque beneficial ownership rules made us theUnited States of Anonymity, and interviews investigative economist James S. Henry. KI hosted its first Democracy vs. Kleptocracy debate, on how–or if–we should limit kleptocratic influence over the media. Belinda Li talks to Professor Minxin Pei about whether...
Ukraine’s Most Overlooked Reform Could Bring in Billions
Of the key battles fought in post-Maidan Ukraine, the one over land reform attracts little attention. That’s a shame, too. Parliament’s unwillingness to allow the sale of private farmland “is the biggest source of immediately available economic growth that the government has failed to utilize,” Swedish economist Anders Åslund has...
Ukraine’s Leader Urges EU to Extend Sanctions Against Russia
December 2, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Photos and video: MLI’s discussion on security in Europe
Macdonald-Laurier InstituteMacdonald-Laurier Institute – Canada’s leading public policy think tank Missed MLI’s November event, “Meeting the new security threats in Europe: Hybrid warfare, Russian military expansion, propaganda and cyber war”? Check out our full… Photos and video: MLI’s discussion on security in...
