Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
December 29th, 2016
CHINA Rights Website Founder Formally Arrested for Subversion in China’s HubeiRADIO FREE ASIA Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei have formally arrested Liu Feiyue, the founder of the Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch website, on subversion charges, fellow activists and relatives told RFA on Wednesday. Liu was detained on...
Ukraine: 2016 international arbitration year in review
2016 turned to be extremely eventful yet quite exhaustive for the international arbitration community in Ukraine. The rapidly changing arbitration environment and recent developments in international arbitration arena leave no other option than to adapt oneself and break through. But would the inner powers of international arbitration in Ukraine...
Kremlin’s Donbas Proxies Use Russian FSB Tactics Against Luhansk Bloggers
The so-called ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ is now holding two Luhansk bloggers – Edward Nedlyaev and Hennady Benitsky prisoner, accusing them of ‘extremism’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Germany plans creation of ’center of defense’ against fake news, report says
Germany’s government plans to create a center to fight “disinformation” online ahead of next year’s elections, a media report has said. The move comes amid reports that fake news influenced the US election. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Forgotten ‘Crimean saboteur’ prisoner defended Ukraine during Russian invasion
Back in 2014 Crimean Tatar Redvan Suleimanov was among the Ukrainian who held out for over 20 days, refusing to abandon a Ukrainian military unit surrounded by Russian soldiers. Two years later he is in FSB detention, part of a grotesque attempt to accuse Ukraine of ‘sabotage’ and ‘incursions’ on its own territory . …read more...
Rosneft Privatization: Reality or Fraud?
Economy On December 7, the Russian official news agency TASS reported that press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that 19.5% shares of Rosneft had been sold to “a consortium of Glencore and Qatar’s sovereign fund.” Sechin claimed: “This amounts to over 1 trillion rubles, which will come to the budget, including 10.5...
The Soviet Union and Russia: Tragedy and Farce
By George Friedman This week marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union. Its collapse was inconceivable at the time. The Soviet Union loomed as a stone colossus astride the world, the equal of the United States, and in the minds of some, its superior. In fact, it was built on a base of sand, held together during its hardest times...
Best of TOL for 2016
Our favorite stories of the year. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Belarus: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
By Allison Fedirka Local pundits, analysts and media have raised the issue of Russian-Belarusian relations reaching their lowest point in at least five years. Belarus’ military doctrine has changed, new agreements were signed with NATO countries, disputes have developed over energy prices and trade regulations, diplomatic protests were...
How the West can beat back the Kremlin
The Kremlin and its allies have started to harvest the fruits of the seeds they have been planting for years. Moscow occupies territories of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine; actively wages war on another part of Ukrainian soil; and is now playing a game of political subversion in several Western states. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
