Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Jitters in Ukraine as Politically Charged Religious Processions Approach Kyiv
Two religious processions converging on Kyiv have Ukrainian authorities warning that provocations could spark violence in the capital. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia moves to silence imprisoned Crimean Tatar leader
Russia’s most openly lawless prosecution since occupying Crimea has descended to a new low with the refusal to allow Crimean Tatar leader Akhtem Chiygoz to even attend his own court hearings and the unfounded decision to separate the proceedings into two trials. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
NATO Can Refloat Romania’s Black Sea Naval Initiative (Part Three)
It was a summit of modest expectations and modest results for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Warsaw on July 8–9. These results are of an interim nature: building blocks for further decisions at upcoming ministerial meetings, not waiting until the next summit. The Warsaw results do not, as yet, correlate with the growth in...
Poland votes that WWII massacre by Ukraine was ‘genocide’
Poland’s right-wing dominated parliament on Friday (22 July) recognised as “genocide” a massacre of 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists seven decades ago, in a move that quickly drew criticism from Kyiv. …read more Source:...
The NATO Alliance Is Terminally Ill
Ted Galen Carpenter The attempted military coup in Turkey sent shock waves through NATO. No matter how the coup turned out, it would have bad news for the alliance. If the attempt had succeeded, NATO would have faced the embarrassment of having a member governed by a military dictatorship. Although that type of situation was tolerated during the...
Fellow submarines
Ever since the occupation of Crimea in 2014, Russian military activity has increased in and around Europe. Russian air and land exercises have also become more assertive and frequent compared to previous years. Fighter jets of the Swedish and Finnish air forces, as well as NATO fighters protecting the air space of the three Baltic republics of...
Ukrainian Torrent Mogul Nabbed in Poland
Artem Vaulin, aka ‘tirm,’ allegedly funneled millions in ad revenue to a Latvian bank. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Hybrid Business — The Risks in the Kremlin’s weaponization of the economy
“How many divisions does the pope have?” Josef Stalin was meant to have asked contemptuously. Today the question could as easily be posed: How many companies does the Kremlin have? …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Olympic Doping Scandal Overshadows Massive Infrastructural Overhaul of Downtown Moscow
The doping scandal, which may exclude Russian athletes from this summer’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics, is dominating the political news in Moscow at the moment. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) executive board has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban all Russian athletes from the Olympics after the publication of a...
Torture, Violence, and Abuses Still Prevalent in Eastern Ukraine
A recently released report shows that both the Ukrainian government and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine are torturing civilians. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
