Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Chillingly secret Crimean ‘Azov fighter’ trial ends in 6-year sentence
A very young Ukrainian just sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment remains as chillingly anonymous as when his arrest in Russian-occupied Crimea was announced in May 2015. Russia claims that Maxim Filatov was a fighter in the Ukrainian Azov Battalion, though this remains in serious question as does everything else about the case. …read...
Putin and Erdoğan Prepare for a Decisive Russo-Turkish Summit
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will make his first foreign trip after the unsuccessful military coup to St. Petersburg to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on August 9. In the aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt, thousands of Turkish soldiers, police officers, judges, prosecutors, journalists, and academicians have been...
