Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
From fiction to gallows humour – how Chernobyl survivors are coping with trauma
It’s been exactly 30 years since the world’s worst nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine. Yet the trauma is still fresh. Exactly how the survivors handle this trauma has been the subject of a lot of psychological research – and it has identified a range of sometimes surprising defence mechanisms....
Why Has a Former Soviet Dissident Gone on Hunger-Strike in Britain?
My British friends are puzzled: why should one weaken oneself? Why jeopardize one’s already very poor health? Can’t things be resolved in court? No, says Vladimir Bukovsky, a man of outstanding courage and integrity, who has devoted his life to the struggle with the Soviet regime …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Ukrainian court quashes rigged conviction of famous musician but leaves him in prison
It should have been victory against a terrible miscarriage of justice. Instead the Kyiv Court of Appeal’s ruling on April 20 has caused bemusement. The convictions against Ihor Zavadsky, a world-renowned accordionist and two other men were quashed, however Zavadsky remains in detention over four years after his original arrest on fabricated...
New Russian Ombudsperson sees no political prisoners in Russia, only ‘extremists’
The Chief of Russia’s Investigative Committee has proposed criminalizing ‘denial’ of the fake ‘Crimea referendum’, and the country’s new Human Rights Ombudsperson plans to fight attempts by the West to ‘use’ human rights as a weapon “to destabilize Russia”’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
The Crimean Tatars: Under Threat
More than seventy years after Stalin deported the entire Crimean Tatar population to central Asia, Mustafa Dzhemilev, leader of the Crimean Tatar National Movement and former Soviet dissident, is once again banned from the peninsula. At this meeting, Dzhemilev will give an update on the situation of the Crimean Tatars. Speaker...
Obama’s Message to a Sober Germany
Transatlantic TakeBERLIN—As U.S. President Barack Obama today delivers the opening speech at the world’s largest industrial fair in Hannover, he will find a very different country than the one he saw upon his campaign visit in 2008. From the heights of excitement when Obama took office in 2009 to the depths of outrage when the NSA affair...
Ukraine’s New Concept Paper on Security and Defense Reform
On March 16, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko approved the “Concept for the Development of the Security and Defense Sector” (President.gov.ua, March 16). The document lays out the “Western” vision for Ukraine’s security and defense sector reform and specifies the goals for this process. The concept paper also shows that security sector...
Romania Bidding For Influence In Moldova (Part One)
For the first time since the fall of communism in Romania and the Soviet Union (1989, 1991), Romania has become an active contestant for influence in its own right in the Republic of Moldova. This policy has come about suddenly, but the prerequisites were accumulating to almost predetermine a more active and ambitious Romanian policy in Moldova....
ADVISORY: CAP to Host Author Parag Khanna for Discussion on Connectivity and its Effect on the Future of Civilization
Washington, D.C. — The Center for American Progress will host a discussion with Parag Khanna, author of Connectography. Khanna presents a radical new take on American strategy: Connectivity rather than countries is the way to think about the 21st century. The discussion will focus on this and its effect on the United States and the world. The...
Profesor Leszek Balcerowicz w rządzie Ukrainy jako przedstawiciel prezydenta Poroszenko
Profesor Leszek Balcerowicz, członek Rady Fundacji CASE i jeden z głównych architektów polskich reform po 1989 r. został mianowany przedstawicielem prezydenta Ukrainy w rządzie tego kraju. Petro Poroszenko podpisał dziś dekret w tej sprawie. Poroshenko oraz premier Hroysman spotkali się z profesorem Balcerowiczem oraz byłym wicepremierem i byłym...
