Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine crisis: Water supply to 600,000 people under threat again
News release | Geneva/Kiev (ICRC) –The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls upon the members of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk to take urgent action to ensure a continued water supply in the Lugansk region, in particular by finding a way to …read more Source: International Committee of the Red...
How the EU budget is spent: European Neighbourhood Instrument
Written by Matthew Parry, © M.studio / Fotolia The European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) was established in 2014 by Regulation (EU) No 232/2014 and endowed with a budget of just over €15.4 billion for the 2014-2020 period. The ENI funds EU efforts to cooperate with and promote development in 16 countries and territories on its eastern and...
Human values – Guarantee of world security
An appeal to the peoples of the world from the 2nd Crimean Forum of Former Political Prisoners of Communist Regimes, Representatives of National Liberation Movements, and Human Rights Defenders (Ukraine, Lviv, 11 November 2016) …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Holodomor Remembrance Day: Why the Past Matters for the Future
A girl holds a lamp next to a monument with inscriptions of locations that suffered in the Holodomor famine, during a commemoration ceremony for the victims …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia, the United States and Donald Trump
Originally produced on Nov. 14, 2016 for Mauldin Economics, LLC George Friedman The U.S. presidential campaign contained a constant undertone of Russia and President Vladimir Putin. Putin said nice things about Donald Trump, and Trump about Putin. In fact, there is a small faction of Trump supporters that admires Putin for being a strong leader...
More ’Ukrainian Crimea Saboteur’ Arrests For Russian Propaganda
Two more Crimeans have been arrested and remanded in custody accused by Russia of planning acts of ‘sabotage’. Typically the main news source was provided by Dmitry Kiselyov, described by the BBC as ‘Russia’s chief spin doctor’, in a long feature under the title ‘The latest failure by Ukrainian intelligence: saboteurs failed to...
Ukrainians Tortured & Imprisoned in Russia’s Revenge for Maidan
How large a role the Kremlin played in trying to crush Ukraine’s Euromaidan protests still needs to be established, but Russia’s politically motivated prosecutions of Ukrainians who took part in Maidan certainly suggest an element of revenge. On this 3rd anniversary of Euromaidan, spare a thought for the Maidan activists now serving...
Unlimited Putin’s influence in Eastern Europe?
In the presidential elections in Bulgaria and Moldova won the pro-Russian candidate. The growing political influence of Moscow in the region should make NATO and the EU to think about, says Robert Schwartz. The results of the presidential election in Moldova and Bulgaria does not portend anything good to the West. However, recent events should...
Holodomor Remembrance Day: Why the Past Matters for the Future
As Americans sit down to their Thanksgiving meals on the last Thursday in November, Ukrainians will be commemorating the memory of millions who were murdered in 1932-33. The last Saturday in November is Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine, a time to mark the anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s engineered starvation of the nation. In the West,...
How Ukraine Can Use E-Declarations to Target the Most Corrupt
This year, thousands of Ukrainian members of parliament, government officials, and civil servants were required by law to declare their incomes and assets in a publicly available database by October 30. Although the introduction of the e-declaration system was initially blocked numerous times, today the public can view the vast amount of wealth...
