Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
The national security crisis neither candidate is talking about, but should be
During the 1988 presidential debates, no one asked either of the candidates about Iraq, yet soon the US was at war in the Persian Gulf to repel Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. During the 2000 presidential debates, no one asked either candidate about the threat from al Qaeda, yet within months al Qaeda had attacked the American homeland and the...
Human Rights Violations in the so-called LNR and DNR: legislation and Practice
Since there are no prospects for an early end to the occupation of Donbas territories, it is necessary to examine the social reality that has emerged in the LNR and the DNR and, in particular, the human rights situation, both at the normative level and in practice. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Destructions in Donbas. Scale, attempts at reconstruction and perspectives for redress for victims
In March 2014, Eastern regions of Ukraine became an arena of the Russian secret services’ “Russian Spring” plan, aiming to pull a large part of Ukrainian territories out of Ukrainian jurisdiction. These actions were supported by a wide information campaign in the Russian Federation. As a result of resistance from the Ukrainian...
Video refereeing could be a major own goal for football – here’s why
Ajax’s 5-0 cup victory against fellow Dutch premier division side Willem II on September 21 saw a first in football: the official world debut for a video assistant referee in a competitive game. Sitting in a van with six TV screens inside the stadium, the assistant quickly proved his effectiveness. He recommended by headset to the on-pitch...
