Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
“The armed forces of Russia is really ready for war”.
VIEW FROM RUSSIA: Defense Ministry announced the completion of a sudden test readiness Michael Khodarenok Checking the troops of the South, of the forces of the Western and Central military districts, as well as the Northern Fleet Command videoconferencing Russian Airborne Command and ended on 31 August. In the West, scientists believe the...
Uzbekistan: the death of Stalin, double take.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 Avraham Shmulevich In the near future the country will struggle associates over the dictator’s body – dead or alive. Died a great leader and teacher, Joseph Stalin! Or he died a few days ago or dies tomorrow – the situation is not entirely clear, because it is not known exactly whether he is in a coma or has...
Paul Manafort’s Ukrainian Legacy
I have seen Paul Manafort twice in my life. The first time was in 2007 during a Ukrainian lunch at Morosani Hotel in Davos, Switzerland, where Viktor Yanukovych came to speak. The second time was at a solemn reception in honor of Yanukovych’s 2010 inauguration at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv; Manfort arrived with oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, who...
For what should prepare.
08/20/2014 Nikoloz Vashakidze Russia, as the saying goes, tightly stuck in the Ukraine, and this greatly accelerated the collapse of its own. In the West, especially the United States, mature consideration that the Russian Federation in its current form is a helpless and dangerous country and the problem needs to be addressed. Already involved...
