Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Keir Starmer: British are “open and tolerant” but on free movement the “status quo is not an option”
Keir Starmer: British are “open and tolerant” but on free movement the “status quo is not an option”Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, said in a speech yesterday that seeking changes to free movement would “make a deal on single market access harder,” but that, nevertheless, “The status quo is not an option.” Starmer said that the...
Misleading OSCE Media report ignores Russia’s annexation of Crimea
An OSCE representative should certainly treat Crimea and areas under the control of Kremlin-backed militants as Ukraine, but ignoring Russia’s culpability for flagrant rights violations leads to serious distortion of the facts. This is just one of the concerns about the report by Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Media Freedom....
Ukraine bans import of ’anti-Ukrainian’ books from Russia
Ukraine’s parliament has passed a law aimed at checking books from an aggressor state for ‘anti-Ukrainian content’ and, where such content is found, banning them. While the ongoing abundance on the Ukrainian market of material full of toxic lies and propaganda is of concern, doubts arise about the law’s efficacy, as well as over...
Beyond the Headlines: RAND’s Christopher Paul Discusses the Russian ‘Firehose of Falsehood’
Christopher Paul, a senior social scientist, discussed his study on Russian propaganda at a recent RAND event. A massive, ingenious, and concerning campaign of propaganda has been pumping westward for years, supporting the Russian agenda in Ukraine and Syria and likely trying to influence the U.S. presidential election. …read more Source:...
Dutch PM to Propose Weakening Landmark Ukraine Pact
Domestic dilemma forces Mark Rutte into taking a position that many Ukrainians see as a betrayal of their hopes. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Q&A: What Does a Friend of Putin at Foggy Bottom Mean for Ukraine?
President-elect Donald Trump has picked ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state. In 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin personally bestowed Russia’s Order of Friendship on Tillerson. As CEO of ExxonMobil, he’s argued for sanctions relief on Russia. By October 2016, some reports estimate that Exxon has lost $1 billion...
A Slippery Slope: The USA after the Presidential elections
Ralf Fücks visited the United States in the week after the elections for talks and events in New York and Washington DC. Reflections and highlights from a nation in shock. First impressions We arrive in New York five days after Donald Trump was elected the new US President on the night of November 8. The shock is slowly turning into anger....
A Threat to U.S. Democracy: Congress Must Investigate Allegations of Russian Hacks
The U.S. government and independent cyber security firms determined earlier this year that Russia took unprecedented steps to manipulate the American public during the 2016 presidential election. Now, we learned that the CIA has concluded that the Russians’ intention was actually to influence the outcome in favor of one candidate,...
December 13th, 2016
ALBANIA UN Body Urges Albania to Identify Communist VictimsBALKAN INSIGHT Almost 26 years after the fall of communism in Albania, those persecuted by the country’s Stalinist regime have little hope that the state will ever identify the remains of around 6,000 people who were executed or died in regime camps and prisons. Agim Musta, a...
Merkel, Hollande Back Extending Sanctions on Russia Over Ukraine
December 13, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
