Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Belarus and the Murder of Pavel Sheremet
Pavel Sheremet (born in 1971), one of the most well-known Belarusian journalists, was killed on July 20, in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, where he was working for the last five years (Ukrainskaya Pravda, Tut.by, July 20). The car Sheremet was driving fell victim to an explosive device attached to the vehicle’s undercarriage. An economist by...
NATO Aspirant Georgia Still Defenseless After All These Years
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...
NATO’s Trump Card
As strange as it seems, both US President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump seem to agree on one thing: European allies don’t spend enough on defense and they need to seriously step up. How they both frame this message is where Obama the statesman and Trump the salesman differ.Since Russia’s annexation of...
Who Hacked the DNC?
We haven’t seen this kind of hysteria since the darkest days of the cold war: a spy scare that is being utilized by one political party against another in a national election, with charges of disloyalty and even “treason” being hurled by one side against the other. The publication of the Democratic National Committee’s emails by...
IMF Announces Further Delay In Ukraine Bailout
July 29, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
The View From A Russian Frigate In Crimea
July 29, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Google Maps Will Revert to Russian Names for Crimea
After complaints from Russian authorities, the mapping service will undo changes in street, town and region names. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Terror on a Conveyor Belt in Russian-occupied Crimea
The 14 Crimean Muslims now facing huge sentences in Russian-occupied Crimea for totally unproven involvement in an organization which is legal in Ukraine include rights activists or people active in their communities, and the prosecutions seem clearly intended as a form of intimidation. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Polish and Slovak PMs press May on the rights of their nationals living in the UK
Polish and Slovak PMs press May on the rights of their nationals living in the UKSpeaking at a press conference with Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło said, “Our role in future talks will be to make sure we agree on terms that will provide the best conditions for Poles living in Britain, since a vast number...
Impunity in Ukraine in the assessment of western human rights activists
On the positive features and failings of the report by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
