Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
PropOrNot Doesn’t Identify Russian Propaganda
PropOrNot is the outfit that produced “The List” of 200 “Russian propaganda outlets.” The strange thing is that their published materials do not identify and prove a single vital case of Russian propaganda that actually had a vital effect on a matter of vital foreign policy or on a matter of momentous domestic concern. What do I mean by a vital...
December 6th, 2016
CHINA Torture in Secret Prisons: The Dark Side of China’s Anti-Corruption Crackdown James Griffiths, CNN A gray, concrete building looms over the street in central Beijing. Inside lies an organization that strikes terror into the hearts of some of China’s most powerful people, and oversees a sprawling network of secret prisons where...
Lame Duck Senate Shouldn’t Ratify NATO’s Inclusion of Corrupt, Military Midget Montenegro
Doug Bandow Historically countries made alliances to improve their defense or otherwise advance important security interests. In contrast, the U.S. uses NATO as a form of international welfare, inducting nations with little military capability or even economic strength. The latest recipient of defense charity is expected to be Montenegro, whose...
Kremlin’s New Cybersecurity Bible Targets Foreign Threats
Russia needs to keep pace with rest of world in IT and set up a national internet control system, Putin says. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
‘It’s a Pretty Disturbing Time for Ukraine’: Trump’s Russia Ties Unnerve Kiev
December 6, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine peace plan follows a familiar path – but there are potholes in the east
More than two years after protests that defenestrated its president and kicked off a conflict, Ukraine remains a starkly divided country, with violence still simmering in the east among Russian-backed separatists. For most of 2016, it has been trying to solve these problems through a deal struck by the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and...
Global Petroleum Survey 2016
This report presents the results of the Fraser Institute’s 10th annual survey of petroleum industry executives and managers regarding barriers to investment in oil and gas exploration and production facilities in various jurisdictions around the globe. The survey responses have been tallied to rank provinces, states, other geographical...
Gazprom’s EU Strategy Is a Dead End
The main obstacle to energy negotiations between Russia and the EU is the clash between their perceptions of energy security. Moscow claims that the biggest threat to European energy security is Ukraine’s unreliability as a gas transit country, while Brussels believes the construction of new Russian pipelines circumventing Ukraine will do...
Ukraine ready to join trilateral gas talks in Brussels
Ukraine is ready to join trilateral talks to discuss gas issues with Russia on 9 December in Brussels, the country’s state energy company Naftogaz said on its Twitter account yesterday (5 December). …read more Source:...
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 which is a shame …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
