Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kleptocracy Daily: January 17, 2017
News Gulnara Karimova, daughter of the late Uzbekistan leader Islam Karimov, has not been heard from for months – but Swiss prosecutors recently questioned her about her role in a major international bribery scandal. (WSJ) Joe Biden said that Russia uses corruption as a “tool of coercion” against Ukraine during his final visit to Kyiv as Vice...
Ukraine Files Case Against Russia at UN’s Highest Court
January 17, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Lithuania Plans to Fence Off Russian Exclave
Decision, following similar moves by other Baltic states, comes amid major NATO military buildup in the region. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
January 17th, 2017
CHINA China’s Xi Defends Globalization at Opening of Davos TalksDEUTSCHE WELLE Communist Party Leader Xi Jinping opened his speech to political leaders, CEOs, and bankers at the World Economic Forum by admitting that many people are concerned about what has gone wrong with the world in recent years. But he said it was wrong to blame...
Kyiv, Moscow Carry Row to London Courtroom
The two sides will face off at the first hearing in a dispute over $3 billion in unpaid debt. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Difficult but Necessary Task of Supporting Democrats in Russia
Photo credit: Bogomolov.PL Events in Russia in 2016 suggested that there is no prospect of political change in the country for the foreseeable future, and especially not in the run-up to the next presidential election in 2018. The regime appears to be more secure than ever and President Vladimir Putin dominates political life. United Russia and...
Trump is not the America
Russia / World While following the ongoing worldwide reaction to the “Russian influence” on the American elections, I recall a friend from my student years. He always preferred not to walk the couple of hundred metres from the University metro station to the second humanities faculty department building, and would wait for a bus or trolleybus –...
Trumpus Andronicus? What the Byzantine Empire can tell us about the rise of populist leaders
Carlos Barria/ReutersThe approaching Donald Trump presidency has taken quite a battering from historians. Comparisons have abounded with the 20th century’s greatest villains, including Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, even if some have questioned how useful such parallels are. But there is an era that lends itself rather closer to...
Poroshenko says Ukrainians at risk of losing faith in EU path
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said yesterday (16 January) Ukrainians risked becoming disillusioned with Ukraine’s pro-European path if there are further delays to plans to cement its closer integration with the European Union. …read more Source:...
Ukraine Files Action against Russia in International Court of Justice
Ukraine alleges that the Russian Federation is violating the Terrorism Financing Convention by supplying weapons and other forms of assistance to illegal armed groups operating on Ukrainian territory …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
