Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kleptocracy Daily: October 3, 2016
Monday’s must-read: Former members of Congress are using their influence to lobby on behalf of foreign powers – not all of which are U.S. allies. (Politico) The U.S. may have seized $600 million from accounts owned by Gulnara Karimova, daughter of Uzbekistan’s late dictator, but officials aren’t ready to hand it back until his...
Russian state crisis entered a critical stage: While only came …
ATTENTION! – CLOCKS GO BACK! … But it is clear one: last week clock is ticking reverse Putin’s coup and usurpation of power, and there are the forces that will allow Putin to win the confrontation with the world.… I’m not talking about what may happen. I’m talking about what will happen. Clocks go back. 03/10/2016 Aleksandr...
Not-So-Phantom Menace
Reporters Without Borders warns of increasing oligarch control over the media and the effect that is having on journalism in Eastern Europe and beyond. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Rebels Operating ‘Gulags’ in Eastern Ukraine
Human rights activists claim some 5,000 people are being forced to work in self-declared Luhansk People’s Republic. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Local Change in the Making in Ukraine
Across Ukraine, there are plenty of examples of local dynamism that contrast vividly with the country’s stalled reform efforts at the national level. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Audit of European Support for Ukraine
On October 6, the ECFR, in cooperation with the Institute of World Policy and the Swedish Embassy in Kiev will launch a new report ‘Audit of European Support for Ukraine’. …read more Source: Institute of World...
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May to trigger Brexit talks by March 2017, says UK is not leaving “to give up control of immigration again” or to “return to jurisdiction” of the ECJ
May to trigger Brexit talks by March 2017, says UK is not leaving “to give up control of immigration again” or to “return to jurisdiction” of the ECJThe UK will begin the formal Brexit negotiation process by triggering Article 50 “no later than the end of March next year”, Prime Minister Theresa May told the Conservative Party Conference in...
In Russia has no more cynical organization than the FSB and the Foreign Intelligence Service.
September 28, 2016 Can there be a division of the Russian elite, and why the West is more interested in Ukrainian reforms in the near future – the war in Donbas, Politeka told Russian political scientist and historian Aleksandr Sytin – The result of the election to the Duma for you had expected? – It is absolutely expected result. In view...
Russia’s SU-27 Probably Departed Belarus
DigitalGlobe imagery from June 2016 shows the departure of Russia’s SU-27SM at Baranovichi. (DigitalGlobe) The Russian Air Force appears to have recalled their Su-27SM from Belarus, a review of satellite imagery of the 61st Fighter Airbase in Baranovichi suggests. Russia had 4 Su-27SM Flanker parked in revetments on the Quick Reaction Alert...
