Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine requests Commission’s help to secure winter gas
In an apparent U-turn, Ukraine has requested the Commission’s mediation for securing its gas purchases from Gazprom, it emerged today (20 July). …read more Source:...
Top Russian Crime Fighters Suspected of Mob Ties
Investigative Committee officials allegedly took bribes, arranged release of notorious crime figure. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Pavel Sheremet, Journalist in Ukraine, Is Killed in Car Bombing
July 20, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Car Bomb Kills Prominent Journalist in Kyiv
Police are treating Pavel Sheremet’s death as premeditated murder. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
A brief description of KHPG strategic litigations in the first half of 2016
Description of cases that KHPG Strategic Litigation Center considered in the period January – June of 2016. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
NATO Can Refloat Romania’s Black Sea Naval Initiative (Part Two)
*To read Part One, please click here. 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...
Ukraine’s Sentsov ’Victim of Vindictive System,’ says European Filmmaker
Mike Downey, a film producer and the deputy head of the European Film Academy, spoke with RFE/RL about why Sentsov’s case remains important to people across Europe …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
How to Avoid Becoming Ukraine’s Most Unpopular Politician
Ukraine is a relatively young country. Its political traditions are still developing and its electorate can still be easily beguiled by every new leader who promises to bring the nation out of the economic misery it was immersed in after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ukraine is still desperately poor, ranked among the poorest countries in...
Fixing Europe’s collective insecurity
Leaders of NATO countries will open a summit in Warsaw on Friday which is expected to authorize a force of 4,000 soldiers in the Baltics and Poland — an attempt to prevent Russia from repeating its Ukraine policy of instigating an insurgency somewhere in the alliance’s eastern flank. Russia has already vowed to respond by deploying three...
Tymoshenko and Kolomoyskyi Score Wins in Ukraine’s Special Elections
Populism is on the rise in Ukraine, so it’s little surprise that Fatherland party leader Yulia Tymoshenko and oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi gained the most in Ukraine’s special parliamentary elections on July 17. Elections were held in seven districts across the country. Fatherland candidates won in Kherson and Poltava, while...
