Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kremlin-backed militants ‘arrest’ teenagers as ‘Ukrainian saboteurs’
Militants from the so-called ‘Donbas people’s republic’ [DNR] have ‘arrested’ 7 teenagers and claim that they were blowing up civilian and military targets for Ukraine’s SBU [Security Service]. The reports, backed only by videos of the lads supposedly ‘confessing’, are chillingly similar to Russia’s recent...
Belarusians Elect Their House of Representatives
Belarus held parliamentary elections on Sunday, September 11. Two opposition-minded candidates have been elected to the Belarusian legislature’s lower chamber, the House of Representatives: Anna Konopatskaya from the United Civic Party (headed by Anatol Lebedko, a long-time opposition politician) and Elena Anisim, deputy chairperson of the...
260 foreign ships identified as in breach of international law for entering Crimea
Black Sea News, together with the monitoring group of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs, have published a blacklist of 260 foreign ships that entered Crimea since Russia’s invasion and annexation up till August 15, 2016. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine’s Government Proposes to Ban Import of ‘anti-Ukrainian’ Books from Russia
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has tabled a draft law proposing that books imported from Russia be checked for any ‘anti-Ukrainian’ content. Similar measures earlier targeted specific books and elicited protest. The new draft bill seems more sweeping in its potential scope, and dangerously vague. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Europe! This will be not only our war!
Europe! This will be not only our war! Hard Ukrainian journalist question at the Forum in Poland, has done more than the efforts of the government delegation. …If we do not stop the Kremlin in Ukraine – you already without us will stop him in Poland, in Lithuania – everywhere … with millions of migrants around the neck and the enemy on the border...
Another Landslide Win For the Status Quo in Belarus
But the elections also brought an unexpected win for the opposition, which won two seats in parliamentary election for the first time in 20 years. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Professor Dutkiewicz Featured in CBC News Article
On September 11, 2016, EURUS professor Piotr Dutkiewicz was featured in a CBC News article which addressed Canada’s credibility problem in discussions on Ukraine. The article discusses why Canada was not invited to a meeting about Ukraine, following the G20. Professor Dutkiewicz argues that Canada has been seen as a party to the conflict...
Kleptocracy Daily: September 12, 2016
A Chinese billionaire may have quietly stashed six percent of the world’s aluminum, worth $2 billion, deep in the Mexican desert. (WSJ) Endemic corruption and oligarch domination are driving a brain drain from Eastern Europe. (Carnegie) London-based Russian oligarch Alexander Zhukov, father-in-law of Roman Abramovich, has been linked to a...
Ceasefire or not, the air war in Syria is an untold catastrophe
A new “cessation of hostilities” is beginning in Syria, with the US and Russia preparing to co-ordinate air strikes against militant jihadist factions. If the temporary ceasefire holds for the intended ten days – and there are plenty of observers who don’t expect it to-peace-deal.aspx) – it provides a chance for the embattled government in...
PUTIN’S WAR IN SYRIA: ITS CAUSES AND STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS.
Ambassador Giorgi Badridze, Senior Fellow, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies. …The West must not give in to Kremlin’s interests and blackmail. The West should not pretend that Putin can be a partner in fighting terrorism or stabilizing the Middle East. Russia’s conduct has been based on the Cold War paradigms...
