Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
“The Association Agreement with the EU: 2 Years On”
The results of the survey conducted by GfK Ukraine on request of the Institute ofWorld Policy. …read more Source: Institute of World Policy
An End to Sabotage of Maidan Crime Investigations?
Newly-appointed Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko has held a meeting with lawyers representing victims of crimes against Euromaidan. While it is definitely early days, the lawyers are obviously pleased at the moves Lutsenko has announced which may help to remove the sources of sabotage from within the Prosecutor General’s Office …read...
Swedish TV SVT misleads viewers through Moreira’s ‘Masks of the Revolution’ film about Ukraine
Can lies that kill and distortion of events that have led to mass human rights violations be protected by the right to freedom of speech? Swedish TV SVT seems to think that they can since it has, despite strong protest, decided to broadcast Paul Moreira’s ‘Masks of the Revolution’ which gravely misrepresents Euromaidan, a tragedy in...
Russia: how long will the inertia?
From BBC archive: …The change must first occur in the minds. For example, if Putin theoretically gone tomorrow, I would anxiously took it, because, given the mass mood, could be even worse. To the mind moves the collision with reality. You want to be an empire? And you have this power? I think in the next few years, regardless of what will happen...
A hole in the budget increasing at a rate of half a trillion rubles a month.
19.05.2016 “… Which is better: an endless horror or horror without end?” – /Russian folk joke/. The federal budget deficit by the end of April amounted to 8.6% of GDP, according to Russia’s Finance Ministry on Thursday. With revenues of 996.6 billion rubles, the government spent 1.591 trillion rubles. In other words, every third ruble of...
Beware What You Wish For: Russia is Ready for War
So foreign ministers from the 28 NATO member-nations met in Brussels for a two-day summit, while mighty military power Montenegro was inducted as a new member. Global Robocop NATO predictably discussed Afghanistan (a war NATO ignominiously lost); Iraq (a war the Pentagon ignominiously lost); Libya (a nation NATO turned into a failed state...
Ukraine vs Russia and the Kleptocrats
This paper lays out the legal means Ukraine might use to recover assets stolen by the regime of former President Viktor Yanukovych, and to recoup its losses from Russia’s 2014 invasion and occupation of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. (In the case of Yanukovych’s thievery, for example, the state could resort to plea agreements in order to...
America – the Most Frightened Nation on Earth
America is exceptional alright. It is the most frightened nation on Earth, subjected to hysterical propaganda over decades warning about foreign enemies and ideologies. No wonder its supposed democratic freedom is in so appallingly bad shape, when the preponderant population is imprisoned by their rulers in a virtual cage of fear. Paradoxically,...
Pentagon: US in Europe “employ muscles”, which did not use from the Cold War.
… Military leaders have announced significant progress in the implementation of the package freight cooperation Georgia with NATO (NATO-Georgia Package) and holding the country needed reforms in the defense sphere. Deputy head of the Pentagon Bob Wark speaking on Thursday, May 19, in the Norwegian-American Defense Conference called Russia...
Anti-Corruption Measures in Ukraine after the Revolution of Dignity: Key Legislative Aspects
This publication takes stock of the recent legislative-legal reforms pursued by Ukraine in order to blunt internal corruption. More specifically, the authors discuss 1) the maneuvering that has led to the reforms, and 2) the anti-corruption mechanisms that have actually been put in place, including the new national police. …read more...
