Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Trumpillary War Machine Is Bad News
I was fortunate enough to view a screening of the new Snowden movie Wednesday evening with some of the whistleblowers who have cameos in it and with its director Oliver Stone. I’m not allowed to review it until Saturday night, but it is a truly great movie and has the potential to be the most widely seen, heard, or read thing of any...
Leading Russian Polling Agency Listed as ‘Foreign Agent’
Move comes days after Levada Center reported falling support for ruling party and less than two weeks before nationwide elections. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine Seeking Chinese Money for Dream Plane
The gargantuan craft has a unique capacity to deliver very big, very heavy cargoes, but development costs beyond the maker’s means. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
What should be thr strategy of Ukraine after Brexit?
On September 19 the Institute of World Policy will organize roundtable “What should be the strategy of Ukraine after Brexit?”. …read more Source: Institute of World...
Russian Arctic River Runs Red
Pollution is the most likely cause for the biblical hue of water in notoriously polluted Norilsk. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
IWP Held a Discussion on EU Interventions in Ukraine’s Conflict Settlement
On September 7, the Institute of World Policy organised a closed discussion to present the research findings of EU interventions in Ukraine’s conflict settlement. The research has been prepared …read more Source: Institute of World...
Assessing the G20: Great Impetus Amid Frictions
Given rising economic, social, political, environmental, and security risks around the world, this week was a tough time to hold a consensus-oriented global summit of major powers. Did the G20 Hangzhou summit manage to break new ground and significantly advance global governance? The Chinese presidency of the G20 deployed unprecedented resources...
Russia: Journalist Zhalaudi Geriev Punished for Chechnya Reporting
A court in Chechnya on September 5, 2016, sentenced a local independent journalist to three years in prison on dubious drug possession charges, Human Rights Watch has reported …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean Tatars sentenced for kitchen chat in Russian-occupied Crimean ‘conveyor belt trial’
The sentences could have been much worse which is the only positive thing to say about the conviction on Wednesday of four Crimean Tatars on trumped up charges. The men’s defiant T-shirts and taped mouths said it all.. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Killing the Messenger: The Demise of a Reliable Belarusian Pollster
Dedicated Belarus watchers are almost certainly bemoaning the recent termination of a reputable non-state polling firm, the Independent Institute for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (IISEPS) (Belapan, August 9). Founded in 1992 by Oleg Manaev, a sociology professor at the Belarusian State University (BSU), IISEPS conducted quarterly surveys...
