Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
America and Russia: Towards a New Partnership?
by Jiri Valenta with Leni Friedman Valenta BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 380 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A pragmatist like Reagan, President Trump will face three urgent foreign policy issues: renegotiating the Iran nuclear deal with a US-Israel military option and Russia’s acquiescence; resolving the human catastrophe in Syria in partnership...
‘Donbas militants’ with Russian accent detain & expel independent Dozhd TV journalists
The Kremlin-backed militants of the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DNR] have banned two journalists from one of Russia’s only independent media from entering militant-controlled territory after claiming that the men ‘defamed’ them …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Czech humanitarian NGO banned from Kremlin-backed militant-controlled Donetsk oblast
People in Need’s office in Donetsk has been visited by representatives of the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ and told to leave immediately …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean Tatars deported again under Russian occupation of Crimea
57-year-old Nedim Khalilov has declared a hunger strike after Russia ‘deported’ him from illegally annexed Crimea. He says that he will risk his life to fight for his right to live in his homeland as a Crimean Tatar, and not be deported as though a foreign citizen …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
In Memory of the Victims of Holodomor 1932-1933
On 26 November 2016, please join in remembering the millions of men, women and children in Ukraine and Kuban who were starved to death during the man-made famine known as Holodomor 1932-1933. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
The EU’s Eastern Partnership [What Think Tanks are Thinking]
Written by Marcin Grajewski, The Eastern Partnership was launched in 2009 as a regional programme of the European Neighbourhood Policy to promote integration and cooperation between the European Union, its Member States and Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. It has achieved limited progress, partly due to conflicts and...
Human Rights Group Publishes Names of Those Responsible for Stalin’s Purges
Kremlin refuses to comment on the release of database with names of state security members. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine’s Ex-President to Testify From Russia on Killing of Protesters
November 25, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Post-truth politics in Ukraine: A ‘common sense’ campaign that is anything but
The seemingly innocuous initiative to restore economic relations between Kyiv and Moscow is really Russia’s latest move against the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
Against the ISIS or the US – what is the goal of the new alliance of Russia and the Taliban?
…”Russians want to defeat America in Afghanistan, but at the cost of lives of Afghans. Our country is close to that again become an arena of fighting indirect war” Analytical Monitoring Service of BBC In Afghanistan, the fear that the establishment of relations between Russia and the “Taliban” could further complicate the already difficult...
