Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russian Security Council Meets Over Tighter Crimea Security
August 11, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine Puts Troops Along Crimean Border on Combat Alert
August 11, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Russia Boasts of Routing Ukrainian Saboteurs in Crimea
Kyiv says the Kremlin invented the entire escapade to deflect attention from its own plans to further militarize the Russian-controlled peninsula. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Let’s Get a Syria Policy
With the humanitarian crisis intensifying in Aleppo and continuing instability across Syria, it is time to fill the Western policy vacuum and stop leading from behind. By living up to and implementing the values of freedom, rule of law and justice in Syria, the West may still be able to quash the forces driving Islamist terrorism. As the noose...
Where It’s Illegal to Make Noise in Churches and Cemeteries
Who are the Russians being tried for ‘hooliganism’ under Article 213 of the criminal code? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia says Ukraine attempted to ‘destabilise’ Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday (10 August) accused Ukraine of waging “terror” over alleged attempted incursions into annexed Crimea that Kiev has fiercely denied. …read more Source:...
Will Chinese investment sacrifice Ukraine’s dreams of democracy to economic needs?
Some fear that Chinese investment will lead to a painful trade-off between Ukraine’s desperate economic needs and its long-standing democratic dream. Sasha Maksymenko/flickr, CC BY-NDThis article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking...
Russia’s pre-planned ‘Ukrainian incursion’ on Russian-occupied Crimea
If Russia wanted to make its claims of an attempted Ukrainian terrorist attack on Russian-invaded and occupied Crimea credible, it should not have blocked the last remaining independent Internet sites days before the alleged attack. Bringing in massive amounts of military hardware prior to the supposed event also seriously lowers plausibility....
Defendant & Defence Excluded from ‘Trial’ of Crimean Tatar Leader
The court currently preventing Crimean Tatar leader Akhtem Chiygoz from attending his own ‘trial’ has now refused to allow prominent Crimean Tatar rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov to defend him. Nikolai Polozov, a Russian lawyer who is also representing Chiygoz, calls what he is seeing in Crimea “total lawlessness”. …read more Source:...
‘Prague Calling, Prague Calling’ – The Alternative Reality of RFE/RL
“Germany calling, Germany calling, Germany calling.” During the Second World War, those words meant only one thing – that William Joyce was on the radio and spewing his unique brand of anti-British bile.Known as “Lord Haw Haw,” the American-born Joyce tried to convince the British public, in a sneering and sarcastic tone, that resistance to...
