Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
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...
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...
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...
