Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Two years on, Ukraine villagers mourn at MH17 crash site
Dozens of villagers carried flowers and lit candles on Sunday (17 July) at the site in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, where flight MH17 crashed two years ago, killing all 298 people on board. …read more Source:...
Bellingcat says Russia used ‘fake evidence’ to point finger at Kyiv in downing of MH17
The Russian Defence Ministry published doctored, misdated satellite imagery to support its suggestion that Ukraine was responsible for downing of a passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014, independent investigation group Bellingcat alleges in a new report. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Mass protest in occupied Donbas: “We want the system we had under Ukraine”
Attempts by Kremlin-backed militants in Horlivka to milk small business owners has prompted the first mass demonstration in the city since 2014. Over a thousand people, came out in protest against the militants’ methods for extracting money, demanding a system like that they had under Ukrainian government control. …read more Source:...
Prayers amid Mounting Terror on Birthday of Abducted Crimean Tatar Activist
17 July is the 31st birthday of Ervin Ibragimov, the Crimean Tatar activist abducted on May 24 this year from near his home. There has been no sign of him and there is nothing to indicate that the de facto authorities are making any real effort to find his abductors. That is if we assume that they were not behind his abduction …read more...
Crimean political prisoner’s brother also prosecuted
Yevhen Kostenko has been fined for showing disrespect to the judge who handed down a knowingly unjust sentence against his brother and Maidan activist Oleksandr Kostenko on May 15, 2015. The latter was sentenced to over 4 years’ imprisonment for an unproven offence during Euromaidan in Kyiv over which a court under Russian law had no...
TESTIMONY OF AMBASSADOR MASHA YOVANOVITCH NOMINEE TO BE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE
MARIE L. YOVANOVITCH CONFIRMED BY U.S. SENATE TO BE AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE Chairman Corker, Ranking Member Cardin, members of this committee. It is a privilege and an honor to appear before you today as President Obama’s nominee to serve as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine. If confirmed, I look forward to working with this […]...
NATO’s Summit Takes Half-Way Measures on the Black Sea Region (Part One)
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...
Russia’s Draft Information Security Doctrine at Odds With Realities of Modern Information Environment
The Russian Security Council website announced that special discussions took place between June 25 and July 5 regarding the formulation of a new doctrine on information security. A draft “Information Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation”—reportedly prepared with input by members of the Security Council, various government bodies, as well...
MH17 – The Open Source Investigation, Two Years Later
Today Bellingcat releases its latest report, “MH17 – The Open Source Investigation, Two Years Later”, bringing together two years of research by Bellingcat into the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on July 17, 2014. As part of this release Bellingcat communicated with experts in various fields for their analysis and opinions of MH17 related...
Russia To Deploy Latest Anti-Aircraft Missiles To Crimea
July 15, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
