Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The situation is ca-ta-stro-phic. Without no more options.
Konstantin Borovoy Russian businessman and politician All, of course, will end in tragedy. June 25, 2016 It is clear that anti-terrorism laws is no direct reference to the opposition activities. We are talking about how they will apply these laws, and the mood among them, of course … I would call the mood of despair. It takes a very serious...
Say No to Terror against Crimean Tatar Rights Activist Kuku & his Children on His 40th Birthday!
The children of Crimean Muslims imprisoned in Russian-occupied Crimea on fictitious ‘terrorism’ charges have been accosted and frightened by FSB officers who tell them that their fathers are in prison and will stay there …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Europe endless, or Europe ending?
Screenshot of BBC News Brexit coverage I came to live and work in Australia six years ago, having spent most of the previous fifty living within the collective embrace of two unions – the UK, and the EU. I was then, and remain, a strong supporter of both, believing that my individual identity can incorporate Scottishness, Britishness and...
Scott Gilmore disgraced Russia all over the world, making a shocking statement.
… Russia is so behind in the economic, technological, social and political sense, it does not matter anymore. But it can still attract our attention, and does so. … By most measures it is – not even average power. She – a football hooligan, poor, drunk and upset that can not win. Only can do is to throw beer bottles from the stands. Russia – a...
Why we can safely say that the war with Russia over?
KGB STRATEGY DOES NOT WORK. Putin’s main strategic error – an attack on Ukraine. Nikolay Ivanov Putin’s main strategic error – this attack on Ukraine. Due to the attack on the Ukraine, Putin destroyed the prospect of possible further “gathering” of the empire, and deprived himself of the possibility of annexing other countries of the...
New attempts to force Russian citizenship on Crimean political prisoner
Oleksandr Kolchenko, the Ukrainian civic activist tried together with filmmaker Oleg Sentsov on involvement in a non-existent ‘terrorist plot’, has been refused a visit from the Ukrainian consul with the prison authorities claiming that Kolchenko is a Russian national. Most ominously, he is being put under pressure to sign a Russian...
The “greatest catastrophe” of the 21st century? Brexit and the dissolution of the U.K.
Twenty-five years ago, in March 1991, shaken by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of nationalist-separatist movements in the Soviet Baltic and Caucasus republics, Mikhail Gorbachev held a historic referendum. He proposed the creation of a new union treaty to save the USSR. The gambit failed. Although a majority of the Soviet population...
The Black Sea Region: NATO’s Exposed Sector on the Eastern Flank (Part Two)
*To read Part One, please click here. Newly entrenched on the Crimean peninsula, Russia has appropriated the title to large parts of Ukraine’s continental shelf and exclusive economic zone (EEZ). According to the treaty on Crimea’s accession to Russia (a constitutional act in Russia), “the demarcation of maritime spaces in the Black...
The Black Sea Region: NATO’s Exposed Sector on the Eastern Flank (Part One)
Aspirationally at least, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is transitioning from reassurance measures to a more serious deterrence posture on the Alliance’s “Eastern flank” vis-à-vis Russia. Decisions in this regard will be finalized down to the wire of NATO’s summit in Warsaw (July 8–9). The pre-summit debates, however,...
A Wake-Up Call For Europe
While many Central Europeans mourn the Leave victory in the UK’s referendum, the region’s leaders say the vote should push the EU to revamp its policies – and quickly. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
