Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Deterring To Defend: Delivering On NATO’s Promise
Russia’s invasion and illegal occupation of parts of Ukraine in March 2014 was a wake-up call for the international community. It also shattered the already fragile relations between Russia and the West. With these actions, Vladimir Putin’s Russia had shown [Read More…]The post Deterring To Defend: Delivering On NATO’s...
Vilify and Amplify: How the Kremlin’s Disinformation Machine is Attacking the MH17 Probe
The Kremlin has turned its disinformation machine on those who are investigating the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine in July of 2014, using state employees, state-run media, and the state-run, though unacknowledged, “troll factory” of fake Internet accounts. The primary goal of the media attacks has been to undermine the...
