Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Intellectual courage versus industry of fear
MICHAL HAVRAN: Is there any sense in speaking about the project of the ‘new’ Enlightenment today given, first, a history of criticism against the flawed original project, and second, taking into account our contemporary political reality? Patrik Ouředník: I do not have any problem with the notion of the ‘new Enlightenment’. While...
Russian MP: ‘We Will Buy Bulgaria’
Tolstoy’s great-grandson, a prominent lawmaker and TV personality, says Russia will ‘buy out the whole of Bulgaria’ to secure its loyalty. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
What should be the Strategy of Ukraine after Brexit?
On September 19 the Institute of World Policy hold the roundtable “What should be the strategy of Ukraine after Brexit?”. …read more Source: Institute of World...
Poland: the “Good Change”
“Poland is in ruins!” Anyone hearing this slogan in the summer of 2015 might have been excused for feeling somewhat surprised. The economy was booming, with GDP growth at 3.6% (up from 3.3% the year before), unemployment had fallen into single digits for the first time in years, and its Gini coefficient was declining. All of this with a budget...
“Kavkaz 2016:” The Next Test of Russia’s Armed Forces
The military exercise “Kavkaz 2016” was the most important test this year of the combat readiness of the Russian Armed Forces. The scenarios carried out in recent months by Russia and Collective Security Treaty Organisation members included a clear political message addressed to neighbouring countries (namely Ukraine) and NATO members, evidenced...
Global Conference, Global Network
As we gather for the second Asian Investigative Journalism Conference, this seems a good time to share again with our colleagues where the Global Investigative Journalism Network and its conferences come from. It was a simple idea at the end of the 20th century — to gather the world’s investigative journalists to share their knowledge with...
Not in Our Name: Journalist NGOs Should Condemn Propagandist Graham Phillips’ Torture Stunt
At a human level, it is impossible to understand somebody accosting a person maimed and blinded and telling him that he’s useless, a zombie whom nobody needs. When that individual, Briton Graham Phillips, claims to be acting as a ‘journalist’, such behaviour needs a clear response from the journalist community. …read more...
Ukrainian citizens are now a group at risk in Russian-occupied Crimea
Gury Kornilyev, a young botanist from Yalta, recently lost his job after two years of harassment over his rejection of Russian citizenship. He knows of two other colleagues who were dismissed or demoted for their pro-Ukrainian position, and they are only some of the many Ukrainian nationals who are now a group at risk in occupied Crimea...
Crimean activist fined for ‘extremist post’ 4 YEARS before Russian annexation
A court in Russian-occupied Crimea has fined Alexei Shestakovych 1,000 roubles for a video he reposted 4 years before Russia invaded and occupied Crimea. On the same day, another court rejected his appeal against a 20-thousand rouble fine for a totally peaceful picket in defence of Oleg Sentsov, Oleksandr Kolchenko and other political prisoners...
Moscow Again Trying to Pit Ethnic Russians in Northeastern Estonia Against Tallinn
Moscow is again stirring the pot in northeastern Estonia, trying to pit the ethnic-Russian community there against Tallinn. And it is doing so in the classic tradition of Vladimir Putin’s “hybrid” war: specifically, Russia is using a report prepared by the Estonian Security Police that leaked to the press in order to blame Tallinn for that...
