Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russia Threatens Response After Montenegro Joins NATO as Observer
The Balkan nation might become a full member by mid-2017. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine cannot allow the Russian military to participate in the OSCE peacekeeping mission
Deployment of the OSCE police mission to Donbas is a very complex process that requires the consent of all parties. This opinion was expressed to the news agency Obozrevatel by Joint Director of Foreign Policy Programmes and International Security of the Razumkov Centre Mykhailo Pashkov. “Capabilities of the OSCE are limited. First of all,...
Counting down to Russia’s 2016 Duma Elections
As Russia gears up for parliamentary elections this autumn, how can the country’s embattled opposition and civil society offer a real contest to the Kremlin’s “imitation democracy”? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Former Tory Cabinet Ministers force Government to accept amendment demanding NHS protected from US trade deal
Former Tory Cabinet Ministers force Government to accept amendment demanding NHS protected from US trade dealThe Government has declared it is happy to sign up to a cross-party move to exclude the NHS from the terms of TTIP, the EU-US trade deal currently being negotiated. More than 25 Conservative MPs, including former cabinet ministers Peter...
Tortured Ukrainian ‘Sentenced’ by Kremlin-backed militants to 30 years
A Ukrainian volunteer fighter from Makiyivka who is on Ukraine’s list for exchange has been ‘sentenced’ to 30 years in the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DNR]. The Kremlin-backed militants have ‘convicted’ Yevhen Chudnetsov of “an attempt to violently seize power on the republic’s territory”....
Western Policy Toward Russia: Swinging Between Deterrence and Appeasement
In trying to find a way to stop the bloodshed in Syria and settle the conflict in the breakaway eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, Western foreign ministers have taken to guardedly praising Russia’s constructive role. This week (May 17), in Vienna, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov co-chaired another session of the...
Russia convicts innocent Ukrainians of fighting in Chechnya
A jury in Grozny, Chechnya has found Ukrainians Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh guilty of fighting against Russian forces in Chechnya in 1994/95 and killing 31 soldiers. It thus ignored documentary evidence from the Memorial Human Rights Centre which demolished the entire indictment and clear evidence that the men had never been in Chechnya,...
Soviet-era norm allows revenge prosecution of prisoners who assert their rights
Human rights activists have called for the adoption of draft bill 2708 which aims to remove the current possibility of extending prisoners’ sentences over alleged minor offences. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Trigger of World War is in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Avraham Shmulevich: trigger World War is in Nagorno-Karabakh. … The main myth, which relied Armenians, was destroyed. The second myth, which also destroyed, lay in the fact that Armenians have always counted on the support of Russia. And it turned out that Russia is not eager to provide assistance to the Armenians: Armenia found herself in this...
Reconciliation Will Be Ukraine’s Next Serious Battle with Russia
Until very recently, Ukrainians predominantly spoke a language of identities, differentiating between people from western Ukraine and people from the eastern part of the country, Ukrainian speaking versus Russian speaking, Greek Catholics versus Orthodox. But what was powerfully witnessed during the Euromaidan was the emergence of a new modality...
