Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Audacity of Nadiya Savchenko
“Russian propaganda made the mistake of using me as an example, and I just became too expensive for them. I am a person who never gives up,” said Nadiya Savchenko, a former prisoner of war, current member of Ukraine’s parliament, and one of the country’s most popular politicians, on September 22.Three days earlier, the Atlantic...
Interior Minister accused of hate speech against those forced to flee Donbas
Donbas-East SOS and other civic organizations have reacted with anger to remarks made on Friday by Arsen Avakov, Ukraine’s Interior Minister regarding Ukrainians displaced by the fighting in Donbas …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Fighting corruption the Ukrainian way: new elements
Overview of the activities of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and of the difficulties it encounters when carrying out its functions …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Press in Britain: Putin can neither believe nor trust.
/ Do not dig hole for another … World separatist Pandora’s box, which Russia is so eager to reveal, can destroy in the first place decrepit Moscow empire, striking its by own boomerang / – GCSSI. September 26, 2016 In a review of British newspapers: Russia accused of barbarism in Syria President Putin loses the support of the population The...
Belarus and Russia Experience New Bout of Tensions
In recent years, there has been no shortage of bad blood between Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka and the Russian Kremlin. For example, in February 2004, Lukashenka referred to the stoppage of Russian natural gas flows into Belarus, in retaliation for Belarus’s insistence on lower prices, as “terrorism at the highest level.” And...
Can Vladimir Putin Make the Twenty-First Century a Russian Century?
The role Russia is playing in Donald Trump’s election campaign is quite extraordinary. The candidate’s son has acknowledged that Trump’s companies have received large Russian investments. His former campaign manager Paul Manafort worked for Ukraine’s disgraced pro-Moscow authoritarian president for almost a decade. Two of...
Prosecutor demands harsher sentence for Crimean Tatar political prisoner
There are absolutely no grounds, but the case against Ruslan Zeitullayev; Ferat Saifullayev; Rustem Vaitov and Nuri Primov now looks bad for the prosecutor, since even the court in Rostov could not ignore the lack of any evidence to back the charges and passed the minimum sentences possible. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Kleptocracy Daily: September 26, 2016
“If you knew Putin like we know Putin…” Estonia’s president and Lithuania’s foreign minister discuss the Kremlin’s kleptocracy. (Daily Beast) U.S. intelligence agencies are looking at alleged connections between Carter Page, a Donald Trump advisor, and senior Russian officials. (Yahoo) Lilia Shevtsova asks: “How has Russia, the...
Executed and tortured in Donbass
Arbitrary and extrajudicial killings, torture, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detentions. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Leading from below
Complaining about the weaknesses of European military forces has long been a favorite sport of American politicians, defense officials and pundits; this is one issue on which populists and the Establishment agree. Indeed, presidential candidate Donald Trump’s threats to withdraw from NATO unless European members pay up are really only...
