Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Turkey and the South Caucasus: An opportunity for soft regionalism?
In recent months, the regions surrounding the South Caucasus have been beset by new instability and conflict. The tenuous ceasefire in Ukraine is barely holding, but Russia shows no intention of withdrawing from its annexation of Crimea despite the West’s punitive sanctions. Chaos and violence reign in Syria and unrest has increased in Iraq...
Sinister Russian FSB attack on lawyers defending Crimean political prisoners
Russia has long demonstrated that journalists, civic activists and all those who express independent views are at risk in Russian-occupied Crimea. On Thursday, there was a disturbing indication that the lawyers representing political prisoners may also be in danger. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
How the International Media Enables Russian Aggression in Ukraine
Why has the media been so cautious about Russia’s role in the conflict? It is not due to a lack of evidence. Proof of Russian involvement has been overwhelming since the early days of the fighting in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine Rejects Russia’s Proposed Ambassador to Kiev
August 4, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Dispatches from Red Square: reporting Russia’s revolutions then and now
“No news from Petrograd yesterday”, was the headline in the Daily Mail on March 14, 1917. The story – or non-story – which followed, was only a few dozen words: “Up to a late hour last night the Russian official report, which for many months has come to hand early, had not been received”, it ran. So why publish it? The non-appearance of the daily...
Secrecy Over Accident at Belarus Nuclear Plant Worries Neighbors
Details are still emerging over the incident, though it occurred almost a month ago. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
UN Security Council Needs More Elected Members
Following the Australian government’s decision not to nominate former prime minister Kevin Rudd for the role of United Nations secretary-general, attention is focussing on those candidates left in the running for the top UN job and their possible influence on the organisation’s future. But in the shadow of the high-profile UNSG...
Are internet populists ruining democracy for the rest of us?
Mad as hell and tagging you in the comments. Mike Lowe, CC BYThe internet has rewired civil society, propelling collective action into a radically new dimension. Democracy is now not only exercised at the ballot box, but lived and experienced online on a day-to-day basis. While this may have positive implications for political participation,...
‘Zombie’ Anthrax Threatening Remote Siberian Peninsula
Experts believe rising temperatures in the Arctic Circle caused permafrost to thaw and release infectious anthrax spores from a diseased reindeer carcass. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kyiv Demands Release of More POWs in Donbas
Despite recent release of 23 prisoners by separatist forces, Ukraine says many more being held, as well as political prisoners in Russia. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
