Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Crimean journalist arrested, others in custody in major new clampdown
Mykola Semena, a journalist who writes for Radio Svoboda’s Crimean Service, is facing charges of ‘calls to separatism’, almost certainly for questioning Russia’s occupation of Crimea. Other journalists have also faced searches and been taken away for questioning …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Internet Clampdown in Russia?
Country’s top investigator proposes measures to counter alleged information attacks from the United States and its allies. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The appointment of Groysman will allow the president to consolidate his power
The parties led by Arseniy Yatsenyuk and President Petro Poroshenko still dominate the governing coalition in Ukrainian parliament, but the choice of Groysman, a member of Poroshenko’s party, for the office of prime-minister is seen as strengthening the hand of the president, the Daily Mail reports the article published by Associated Press....
Fighting a Culture of Corruption in Ukraine
To make progress on stamping out corruption, Ukraine requires targeted reform of the powerful institutions that perpetuate corrupt practices, particularly the justice system. …read more Source: Carnegie...
Ukrainian court sentences Russian soldiers, prisoner swap taking shape
A Ukrainian court yesterday (18 April) sentenced two Russian soldiers captured last May to 14 years in prison for their involvement in the pro-Russian separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian hostage faces 9 year sentence in Russia for want of a crime
A Russian court is likely on April 20 to sentence Ukrainian Serhiy Lytvynov to up to 9 years in a maximum security prison. For being Ukrainian, effectively, since he committed no crime. The politics in this case, and there is little else, lies in Lytvynov’s nationality and Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine. …read more...
Extradition promises for show as Russia forces citizenship on Crimean political prisoner
Russia is still trying to force its citizenship on Gennady Afanasyev, one of the four opponents of Crimean annexation taken illegally to Russia and convicted of ‘terrorism’, and may also be putting similar pressure on Oleksandr Kolchenk …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Sanctions, not words, needed over extrajudicial criminalization of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis
Two years after invading and annexing Ukrainian territory, Russia has effectively declared war against the Crimean Tatar people. More words of concern, without real punitive sanctions, would be frighteningly inadequate. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
IMF doesn’t need a bigger empire to operate a better safety net
‘Too slow for too long’. This is the title of the just-released IMF World Economic Outlook. Global growth has been stuck in a rut, running between 3% and 3.5% for the past four years, and the forecast numbers are not much stronger. Policy-makers have become inured to this persistently feeble performance, with policy unresponsive to the...
New Prospects for Development of Transport Sector in Azerbaijan
Continuing drastic declines in energy prices have given new impetus to Azerbaijan’s long-running quest to diversify its economy and develop the domestic non-oil sector. In this regard, the country’s leadership has placed particular importance on the transport sector (Abc.az, April 13; Azernews, March 10). In October 2015, President...
