Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Influential EU Trade Committee Greenlights Controversial Trade Deal With Uzbekistan
Human right activists strongly oppose the draft legislation, seen as condoning the use of forced labor for harvesting cotton. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Mongolia, IMF Close to Agreeing Loan Deal
Government willing to accept external aid to rescue an export-driven economy that has been battered by low commodity prices and a backlog of old debt. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
U.S. Seeks ‘Humanitarian Parole’ for Uzbekistan Prisoner
Washington is appealing for amnesty for man whom rights groups call one of the Central Asian nation’s longest-serving political prisoners. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
From the Shores of Azov … to the Halls of Power?
A militarized corps that openly flaunts fascist symbols tries to transform itself into the leader of the ‘new right’ in Ukraine’s fractious political arena. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Appeal of the Experts, Researchers and Journalists Regarding Illegal Detention of Ukrainian Experts in Crimea
We call expert, research and journalistic communities, civil activists for professional solidarity and ask to support this appeal. …read more Source: Institute of World...
UN Resolution on the Human Rights Situation in Crimea
The most hard-hitting UN statement yet on Russia’s occupation of Crimea and ongoing human rights abuse …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia dumps the International Criminal Court after report on Crimea. Liability for war crimes remains
Despite numerous misleading headlines, Russia cannot dramatically leave the International Criminal Court since it has never joined in the first place. It could, however, have ratified the Rome Statute and now doesn’t want to, presumably because of such unkind words as ‘military conflict’ and ‘occupation’. …read more...
Russia awards Ukrainian political prisoner $15 ’compensation’ for torture & wrongful imprisonment
Abducted from hospital, tortured and held in Russian detention for 10 months on totally fictitious ‘war crimes charges’, Serhiy Lytvynov has been awarded ‘compensation’ – about 15 US dollars worth …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
US and NATO military intelligence ringed Russia.
…Trump will be with Putin “negotiate for peace, but with a position of strength” 16/11/2016 Vladimir Mukhin Columnist “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” While the head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with the newly elected president of the United States, Donald Trump, at the southern borders of Russia made another...
The Turkish Stream Agreement and What It Means
Economy On October 10, in the margins of the 23rd World Energy Congress being held in Istanbul, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed an agreement confirming common intentions to proceed with construction of the Turkish Stream pipeline, after bilateral relations improved following a...
