Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russian Investigative Journalist Beaten in Siberia
Grigory Pasko, who teaches investigative techniques, was denounced as a ‘spy,’ ‘traitor,’ and ‘foreign agent’ ahead of his arrival in Altai for a seminar. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Relations between Ukraine and Russia. Discussion paper summary
A discussion paper was written by Olesya Yakhno, invited expert of the Institute of World Policy …read more Source: Institute of World...
Social Services Threatened as Charities Face Eviction
Station Kharkiv, one of the city’s largest volunteer organizations, is facing the loss of its offices after donors told the organization that they could no longer provide sufficient funds to cover the rent of the premises. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia brings enforced disappearances to occupied Crimea
Civic activists held a vigil outside the Russian embassy in Kyiv on Sept 27, demanding to know the whereabouts of 19-year-old Islyam Dzhepparov and his cousin, brazenly abducted exactly two years ago, civic activist Ervin Ibragimov and many others who have disappeared since Russia invaded and annexed Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
The ‘Prussian Curse’ on Kaliningrad Governors Remains Unbroken
On July 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin relieved the governor of Kaliningrad Oblast, Nikolay Tsukanov, of his duties (Krpress.ru, July 29). Tsukanov’s temporary replacement, Major-General Evgeny Zinichev, used to head the local branch of the Federal Security Service (FSB) (Rugrad.eu, July 28). Later, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov...
Is Putin Planning a ‘Hybrid’ Deportation of Crimean Tatars and North Caucasians?
Reportedly, the Kremlin is mulling an idea to relocate 500,000–1,000,000 people from the southern portions of the Russian Federation to the Far East and Siberia. This prospect has sparked fears among some non-Russians. Specifically, certain regional minorities, including Crimean Tatars from the Russian-occupied Ukrainian peninsula, fear President...
“What kind of threat to Russia we can talk?”
September 27, 2016 Eugene Aronov /On the photo: Teachings of the Pskov Airborne compounds Russia in Brest, Belarus, two kilometers from the border with Poland. April 2016 / Estimates of changing the military balance between the West and Russia, according to which Moscow is winning one game after another, today even seep into the presidential...
Babi Yar at 75: Filling in the Blanks in Ukrainian History
Long before Auschwitz, long before Treblinka and Sobibor, there was Babi Yar—the sprawling ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv where the Nazis, with support from the locals, murdered 33,771 Jews in a two-day killing spree on September 29 and 30, 1941. The Holocaust as the “final solution” began here, in Ukraine and other Soviet territories....
Babi Yar at 75: Filling in the Blanks
Long before Auschwitz, long before Treblinka and Sobibor, there was Babi Yar—the sprawling ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv where the Nazis, with support from the locals, murdered 33,771 Jews in a two-day killing spree on September 29 and 30, 1941. The Holocaust as the “final solution” began here, in Ukraine and other Soviet territories....
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Daughterland [Rodina-Doch’]: Erotic patriotism and Russia’s future
Politics Personifications of Russia have a long history in Russian visual culture, philosophy and literature. During the Silver Age, Russia was associated with a bride, while in the Soviet period, the image of the Motherland became dominant. The Russian tradition is marked by a great significance attached to the cult of the Theotokos [Dei...
