Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kleptocracy Daily – September 15, 2016
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction has released full and interactive versions of a major “lessons learned” report on the U.S. approach to corruption throughout the conflict. Telecoms operator Telia will pay $1.4 billion to settle U.S. and Dutch investigations into bribes allegedly paid to Gulnara Karimova, daughter of...
EU Extends Sanctions on Russian Officials Over Ukraine Crisis
September 15, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Kleptocracy Daily – September 14, 2016
A new film by George Clooney and John Prendergast promises to draw attention to South Sudan’s brutal kleptocracy. (Daily Beast) If elected, Donald Trump’s business interests could “constantly jeopardize the security of the United States.” He has been linked to another alleged Russian mobster. (Newsweek, Mother Jones) A study showed...
Russian Nuclear Weapons Policy Increasingly Resembles That of North Korea
Moscow reacted harshly to North Korea’s most recent nuclear test. “Such explicit disregard for the norms of international law and the opinion of the international community merits the strongest possible condemnation,” the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared in a statement (Mid.ru, September 9). The irony, however, is that the...
Russia openly collaborates with Donbas militants on ‘teenage saboteur’ arrests
Two days after Kremlin-backed militants in Donbas released disturbing video footage of 7 young lads allegedly ‘arrested’ for acts of SBU-orchestrated sabotage, Russia’s Investigative Committee has become involved, but not, as you might have hoped, by calling on the Moscow-controlled militants to stop tormenting kids as young as 15...
Police Reform
Press conference on the results so far, plans and problems encountered …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Important victory for religious freedom (and common sense) in Ukraine
Ukraine’s Constitutional Court has declared unconstitutional the demand that permission be received from the local authorities for holding public religious events. The requirement was discriminatory and illogical since Ukraine’s Constitution requires only that people notify of plans to hold a peaceful gathering …read more...
Information war monitor for Central Europe: August 2016
By Lóránt Győri, Péter Krekó, Jakub Janda, Veronika Víchová, Daniel Milo, Katarína Klingová. Photo: Flickr|greenzowie, licensed by CC BY-NC-ND 2.0GLOBSEC Policy Institute’s bi-weekly overview of conventional and social media discourse in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia monitors propaganda and disinformation attempts, as well as...
What does the Bratislava Summit have to say about Russia?
By Alena Kudzko. Photo: Flickr|Larry Koester, licensed by CC-BY-2.0Nothing and a lot.There will be no grand joint statement on relations with Russia when 27 leaders convene in Bratislava on Friday.And that’s not only because it’s an “informal” summit. The Summit is expected to focus on areas that the 28-1 leaders can agree on....
Culture Under Threat: Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra as Case Study
In the last two years, it has become routine to acknowledge that the Maidan revolution unleashed torrents of creative energy in Ukraine. Myriad articles have been written about the ferment of cultural activity taking place across every discipline. Yet classic cultural institutions and performing arts groups continue to face many of the same...
