Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Words Fly Over Russian Missiles on Baltic
NATO, Moscow resume long-running spat over whether the military alliance is aggressive or not. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukrainian Teacher Accused of Trying to Sell Her Student
Interior minister, fellow teachers shocked at arrest of experienced, respected boarding school teacher. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Trump’s Tulsi Gabbard Factor
Two weeks after Donald Trump’s shocking upset of Hillary Clinton, the imperious and imperial neoconservatives and their liberal-interventionist understudies may finally be losing their tight grip on US foreign policy. The latest sign was Trump’s invitation for a meeting with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, on Monday. The mainstream...
Russian AIDS Experts Warn of Looming Nationwide Epidemic
The Kremlin favors moralistic strategies rather than proven needle-sharing and drug substitution programs, critics charge. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
French polls: a foregone conclusion?
The French will elect their president in May 2017, but, in all likelihood, 10% of the 45 million-strong electorate may have already made a definitive decision about who the next president will be. Under the French electoral system, citizens elect the president directly through a two-round election. If none of the candidates gets an absolute...
Event Summary: Obama’s legacy
Written by Elena Lazarou, Bruce STOKES director of global economic attitudes at Pew Research Center Against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s surprise election victory the previous week, the External Policies Unit of EPRS organised an event asking ‘Will There Be an Obama Legacy: Impacts on America, Europe, and the World’, on Monday, 14...
Trump, the unspeakable and democracy in America
A portrait of US President-elect Donald Trump guards a residential backyard in Iowa, complete with lights and security cameras. Tony Webster/flickr, CC BY-NDThis article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges...
Recording Appears To Tie Serbian Nationalist To Crimea Seizure
A Serbian nationalist leader who is accused of plotting to kill Montenegro’s prime minister may have helped send fellow Serbian militants to Crimea to support Russia’s seizure of the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, a recorded conversation suggests . …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Prominent Kremlin-backed militant admits they don’t want the Minsk Agreement to work
According to a prominent militant from the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DNR], Ukraine’s compliance with the Minsk Agreement is “not in their interests”. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Cynical 2nd sentence passed on Ukrainian political prisoner whom Russia is driving insane
The sentence passed on Nov 21 adds only a month to Russia’s 20-year sentence against Ukrainian Stanislav Klykh, but its cynicism is of extraordinary brutality …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
