Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Sentenced twice for pro-Ukrainian position in Russian-occupied Crimea
The good news that a court in Russian-occupied Crimea had revoked a politically motivated sentence against Volodymyr Balukh was short-lived. The pro-Ukrainian activist has been tried on exactly the same absurd charges and received an identical sentence. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Piontkovsky: If Moscow and will go to war aggravation, it is likely, in the Caucasus.
JUNE 23, 2016 “… It is logical that he would put the question of access to the military base in Armenia. A corridor it is possible only through the territory of Georgia. If Moscow and will go to war aggravation, it is likely, in the Caucasus due to its undesirable political scenario in Georgia.” Russian historian and publicist Andrei Piontkovsky...
