Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
2014 Ratiu Award Winner Profiled in the New Yorker
Winner of the 2014 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award, Mustafa Nayyem, is profiled in the September 5, 2016 issue of The New Yorker in an article about his transition from journalism to politics in Ukraine. Nayyem is credited for having made the social media post that helped spur thousands of protestors to gather in Maidan Square. …read more Source:...
Russia’s Supreme Court Questions USSR’s Role in 1939 Invasion of Poland
The court upheld the conviction of a blogger for a social media post describing Soviet-Nazi collaboration during World War II. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia’s Clandestine “Information War” in The Czech Republic
Russian intelligence services are the most active foreign intelligence service in the Czech Republic, a report by the Czech counterintelligence agency found. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
ADC “Memorial” and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group welcomes the Concluding observations of the UN CERD addressed to the government of Ukraine
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination published its concluding observations and recommendations following consideration of the 22-23 State periodic report of Ukraine and the alternative materials from non-profit organizations …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
US imposes sanctions on ‘Putin’s bridge’ to Crimea
Companies building a multi-billion dollar bridge to link the Russian mainland with annexed Crimea, a project close to the heart President Vladimir Putin, were targeted by the United States in an updated sanctions blacklist yesterday (1 September). …read more Source:...
Strasbourg wants answers about Russia’s alleged ‘Ukrainian Crimea saboteur’ prisoner
Russia is continuing to hold Ukrainian Yevhen Panov prisoner in occupied Crimea, and preventing him from seeing an independent lawyer. The European Court of Human Rights has responded with hard-hitting questions about the legal grounds for the Ukrainian being deprived of his liberty, the origin of ‘injuries and legal defence …read...
Mothers of Slain Beslan Victims Detained & Prosecuted for Silent Protest
Five mothers of children killed during the storming of School No. 1 in Beslan on September 3, 2004 ended up in court on Thursday after being roughly detained for a totally peaceful protest. During the remembrance ceremony they all took off cardigans revealing T-shirts with the words ‘Putin is the Executioner of Beslan’ …read...
Russia’s Supreme Court rules that the USSR did not invade Poland in 1939
Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of Perm blogger Vladimir Luzgin for reposting a text which states that both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939. The Supreme Court’s ruling came on September 1, 2016, the 77th anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, 17 days before the anniversary of the...
Gang godfather pretends epileptic: Putin uses the G20, to blackmail the West.
September 1, 2016.Russian political analyst told the Kremlin’s activities in anticipation of “Big Twenty” summit Andrei Piontkovsky, a Russian political scientist, especially for “apostrophe” Thursday, September 1, 2016 At the G20 summit, Vladimir Putin is blackmailing the West in matters of Ukraine and Syria 4-5 September in the Chinese...
WikiLeaks and Russia: Strange Bedfellows?
A recent analysis of WikiLeaks concludes that “the agendas of WikiLeaks and the Kremlin have often dovetailed.” …read more Source: Transitions Online...
