Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Anticipating an EU Terrorist Finance Tracking System: Three Lessons in Public–Private Security Cooperation
With the possible creation of a European version of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP), SWIFT’s past experience with the TFTP provides valuable lessons for successful public–private security cooperation. wesseling_newsbrief_sept_vol.36_no.5.pdfIntra-European transactions – which have until now been excluded from discussions –...
Financial Crime: An Intelligence-Led Response is Needed
Intelligence gaps are at the heart of the UK’s vulnerability to financial crime – evidence rather than supposition must form the basis of the response.keatinge_newsbrief_sept_vol.36_no.5.pdfWhitehall has invested considerable resources in preparing for the late 2017 evaluation of its anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terror financing...
France: Learning the Lessons of Nice
The attack in Nice has not just placed France’s counterterrorism strategy under the spotlight. It has also increased pressure on the French authorities to build a more culturally inclusive society.abbas_newsbrief_sept_vol.36_no.5.pdfOn the night of 14 July, after a terrorist struck Nice, France, initial reaction was to associate it with...
Sanctions on Russia: Moscow’s Attempt to Soften the Blow
Despite attempts by Russia to create mechanisms to soften the impact of ‘targeted’ financial and energy sanctions, full reintegration, even in a scenario of future divergence between the US and the EU, will be difficult to achieve. mehdi_newsbrief_sept_vol.36_no.5.pdfSanctions, like other tools of financial warfare, have increasingly become...
Dangerous & Senseless Arson Attack on TV Inter for ’pro-Russian Position’
Irresponsible protesters who attacked the offices of TV Inter on Sunday afternoon have done Ukraine no favours. Their actions were not just dangerous and unacceptable, but stupidly counter-productive, making the Interior Minister’s reference to his serious allegations against the channel seem ill-timed. …read more Source: Kharkiv...
Silence on Critical Verdict Will Free Kremlin Hand for More Repression in Crimea
Russia is already imprisoning 14 Crimean Muslims, almost all Crimean Tatars, on trumped-up charges. Without international protest, that number is certain to rise, with Russia as occupier of Crimea using such conveyor-belt prosecutions to imprison rights activists or others who take a strong civic position …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Free Ilmi Umerov! Stop Political Terror in the Crimea!
Statement of the Ukrainian Center of the International PEN …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Pro-Kremlin Media Lies as International Pressure Mounts to Free Umerov
International protest over Russia’s prosecution and punitive psychiatry against Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov has not gone unnoticed in Moscow. The demands for his immediate release are unheeded, but a newspaper close to the Kremlin has produced a supposed ‘interview’ trying to discredit Umerov and refute all grounds for protest....
Without cunning schemes and “multi-pass combinations.” West announced the verdict for Putin’s Russia.
… That’s such a sad picture. For Russia, of course. Kirill Sazonov 09/03/2016. Russian Ministry of Economic Development proposes to budget for the period from 2017 to 2019 version of the “basic plus”, which is based on an oil price of $ 50 per barrel in 2017 and $ 55 per barrel in 2018-2019. And why not write – the paper can endure. Paper...
No Quiet On The Eastern Front
Image credit: Poster Collection, RU/SU 2317.3R, Hoover Institution Archives.Blank Section (Placeholder)via Military History in the NewsIt is impossible to follow the news of the buildup of Russian forces in the Donbas region in Ukraine and just across the international border without flashing back to the summer of 1943. In that year the Red Army...
