Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Many Hopes of Nadiya Savchenko
“I’ve been in a prison cell for two years, I’m not used to people, so I am sorry if I sound harsh,” said Nadiya Savchenko as throngs of journalists and well-wishers crowded around her at Kyiv’s Boryspil airport on May 25.Captured in Ukraine, transferred secretly to Russia where she was tried and sentenced to twenty-two years in...
UN torture prevention body suspends Ukraine visit citing obstruction
The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has suspended its visit to Ukraine after being denied access to places in several parts of the country where it suspects people are being deprived of their liberty by the Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean Tatar World Congress Member Abducted in Occupied Crimea
Ervin Ibragimov, a Crimean delegate to the World Congress of Crimean Tatars, has disappeared and was almost certainly abducted late on May 25 near his home in Bakhchysarai. This is the latest of many abductions and disappearance since Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, and is made especially chilling by the FSB’s refusal to allow his family...
Nadiya Savchenko freed, but what about Russia’s other Ukrainian hostages?
It is excellent that Nadiya Savchenko has been returned to Ukraine but there seems to be no movement, however, on freeing the other Ukrainians unlawfully held in Russia, with the ‘extradition procedure’ in the case of filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko and others looking increasingly like a delaying tactic. There is...
Shoigu Builds Mythical Russian Army.
May 24, 2016 By: Roger McDermott Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (Source: RT) Since President Vladimir Putin appointed Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in November 2012, the official message from the top brass and leading defense officials presents the Russian military as advanced, reformed and undergoing modernization. Shoigu has introduced...
Russia’s Kerch Bridge: Time to Act for Ukraine
The bout of great-power euphoria sparked by the 2014 annexation of Crimea did not last long in Russia. The Kremlin quickly realized the region’s total dependence on mainland Ukraine. Over the past 60 years, heavy capital and labor investments as well as regular water, power and fuel supplies sent from Ukraine had transformed the formerly...
Savchenko’s Return May Unleash Political Earthquake in Ukraine
It has finally happened. Nadiya Savchenko is back in Ukraine.The female pilot, who was captured in Ukraine and illegally brought to Russia on falsified charges, became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance against Russian efforts to destabilize the country.A Russian court sentenced Savchenko to twenty-two years for killing two Russian journalists in...
Child Survivor of the Holocaust in Poland and Ukraine tells the story
Shimon Redlich: “understanding humanity” “We want more events like this,” said a Ukrainian member of the audience of the event on May 18, 2016, dedicated to the personal experience of surviving the Holocaust in Poland and Ukraine. It brought together the representatives of the Ukrainian, Polish and Jewish communities in London. Communities which...
Moscow Frees Ukraine Pilot in Swap for Russians Held in Conflict
May 25, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
The Struggle to Reform Odessa Reflects Wider Malaise in Ukraine
May 25, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
