Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Beijing’s North Korea Policy in 2016: Keep Calm and Carry On
Although North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests have rocked the relationship with China, both sides seem intent on keeping calm.cathcart_newsbrief_sept_vol.36_no.5.pdfApplying metaphors to Beijing’s relationship with North Korea is a difficult business. In recent years, China’s old bonds of brotherhood with North Korea have...
Ukrainian TV Studio Set on Fire by Protesters
Popular, allegedly pro-Russian station faces the ire of demonstrators and gets hit with a smoke bomb. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Anticipating an EU Terrorist Finance Tracking System: Three Lessons in Public–Private Security Cooperation
With the possible creation of a European version of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP), SWIFT’s past experience with the TFTP provides valuable lessons for successful public–private security cooperation. wesseling_newsbrief_sept_vol.36_no.5.pdfIntra-European transactions – which have until now been excluded from discussions –...
Using Social Media as a Source of Financial Intelligence: A New Frontier in the Fight Against Crime?
If social media is to deliver on its potential as a research tool for the provision of financial intelligence, a range of legal and ethical issues will need to be addressed first. keen_newsbrief_sept_vol.36_no.5.pdfFinancial institutions are an indispensable ingredient in the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing. Recently, some...
Financial Crime: An Intelligence-Led Response is Needed
Intelligence gaps are at the heart of the UK’s vulnerability to financial crime – evidence rather than supposition must form the basis of the response.keatinge_newsbrief_sept_vol.36_no.5.pdfWhitehall has invested considerable resources in preparing for the late 2017 evaluation of its anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terror financing...
France: Learning the Lessons of Nice
The attack in Nice has not just placed France’s counterterrorism strategy under the spotlight. It has also increased pressure on the French authorities to build a more culturally inclusive society.abbas_newsbrief_sept_vol.36_no.5.pdfOn the night of 14 July, after a terrorist struck Nice, France, initial reaction was to associate it with...
Sanctions on Russia: Moscow’s Attempt to Soften the Blow
Despite attempts by Russia to create mechanisms to soften the impact of ‘targeted’ financial and energy sanctions, full reintegration, even in a scenario of future divergence between the US and the EU, will be difficult to achieve. mehdi_newsbrief_sept_vol.36_no.5.pdfSanctions, like other tools of financial warfare, have increasingly become...
Free Ilmi Umerov! Stop Political Terror in the Crimea!
Statement of the Ukrainian Center of the International PEN …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Dangerous & Senseless Arson Attack on TV Inter for ’pro-Russian Position’
Irresponsible protesters who attacked the offices of TV Inter on Sunday afternoon have done Ukraine no favours. Their actions were not just dangerous and unacceptable, but stupidly counter-productive, making the Interior Minister’s reference to his serious allegations against the channel seem ill-timed. …read more Source: Kharkiv...
Silence on Critical Verdict Will Free Kremlin Hand for More Repression in Crimea
Russia is already imprisoning 14 Crimean Muslims, almost all Crimean Tatars, on trumped-up charges. Without international protest, that number is certain to rise, with Russia as occupier of Crimea using such conveyor-belt prosecutions to imprison rights activists or others who take a strong civic position …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
