Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Europe’s Short Memory and Ukraine’s Long Crisis
Less than 20 percent of the $298 million that the United Nations requested from international donors has been provided. Since 2014, the war in Ukraine’s east has claimed over ten thousand lives and displaced over 1.8 million people the largest internally displaced persons crisis in Europe. According to data from the International...
SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARING FOR NEW AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC (UNIS) – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) held confirmation hearings on Tuesday, June 21, 2016 for several nominees for ambassadorial posts throughout the world. On the docket were nominees for Lithuania, Ukraine, and Greece – Anne Hall, Marie Yovanovitch, and Geoffrey Pyatt, respectfully. The...
Canada faces an important choice on contributing to NATO force in Eastern Europe, Leuprecht tells the Current
Macdonald-Laurier InstituteMacdonald-Laurier Institute – Canada’s leading public policy think tank Canada can either stand on the sidelines or seek influence over NATO as it prepares to mount a special force in Eastern Europe… Canada faces an important choice on contributing to NATO force in Eastern Europe, Leuprecht tells the...
Russian Culture Minister Says Netflix Instrument of U.S. Policy
Comments suggest streaming service used to brainwash the masses. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Online Dissenters in Russia Targeted
Internet freedom is increasingly fraying at the edges, as government critics on social media sites face physical assaults. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia’s Feud with Scientology Leads to Arrests
In latest crackdown, police raid Scientology offices and churches, citing suspicions of criminal business dealings. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Foreign Pressure Will Not Sway Construction of Belarus’ First Nuclear Plant
Neighboring nations have voiced environmental concerns about the project, which comes 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Europe’s Short Memory and Ukraine’s Long Crisis
“People have forgotten that there’s a real humanitarian situation and a real need in a European country,” said Jock Mendoza-Wilson, director of international and investor relations at System Capital Management, during a recent Atlantic Council panel examining the crisis in Ukraine.In fact, he said, six hundred thousand people on...
Beatings and Arson Attacks: Is Online Dissidence Becoming Dangerous in Russia?
There have been a string of assaults and arson attacks targeting Russians who have openly criticized their government on social-networking sites. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
New Russian Fake ‘Ukrainian Separatism’ Season Gets Underway
A fictitious ‘Assembly of Romanians of Bukovyna’ is for the second year running reported to be demanding greater autonomy for ethnic Romanians and complaining that the rights of minorities are violated in Ukraine …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
