Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Parliament find Health Care Ministry’s reforms unsatisfactory
Parliament adopted a resolution on the recommendations of parliamentary hearings “On health care reform in Ukraine.” The draft resolution was supported by 273 deputies. Participants of parliamentary hearings recommend to recognize the work of the Ministry of Health Care of Ukraine on the organization and legislative support for healthcare reform...
Calm Before the Storm?
Counterterrorist operations targeting jihadists in Russia have largely proven successful in the past three years. Still, there are reasons to worry that large-scale terrorism might return. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
New Press Freedom Index Remains a Depressing Read
Post-Soviet states again do miserably while Poland and Hungary drop down in the rankings. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Hroisman’s government can achieve some success but a breakthrough should not be expected
The appointment of Volodymyr Hroisman as a prime minister will allow to avoid a parliamentary election for at least several months. This was said by Leading Expert of Political and Legal Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Viktor Zamiatin in his comment to the website Ostrov. “At least for some time, Volodymyr Hroisman will be loyal to the...
The Razumkov Centre Newsletter №4 (33)
The new issue of the Razumkov Centre Newsletter contains articles and interviews of our experts on the most important issues of Ukraine’s life in the areas of national security and defence, economy, energy, internal, external and social policy. In the issue: “Accepting DNR and LNR as Part of Ukraine is Equal to Drinking Poison”; “An...
Russian Faux Pas in Mongolia
Locals feel snubbed after Russian foreign minister arrives for an official visit wearing jeans. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
What Mongol History Predicts for the Next Season of Game of Thrones
As season six of HBO’s Game of Thrones looms, speculation is rife. Is Jon Snow really dead? What do the clips featuring a blind Arya mean? And what are the implications of the return of the Dothraki? This last question is the one that has got me thinking the most. The Dothraki are one of Game of Thrones’s more interesting cultures,...
Russia’s Constitutional Court backs selective justice
Human Rights Watch has condemned the Russian Constitutional Court’s first ruling that a binding European Court of Human Rights Judgment is ‘non-executable’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia sentences Ukrainian hostage to 8.5 years on openly invented charges
A Russian court has convicted Serhiy Lytvynov of a ‘crime’ which was only reported a year after it allegedly took place, and just after Russia’s Investigative Committee had been forced to withdraw war crimes charges which had been proven to be total fiction …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ideas for Australia: Australia boosts defences, but must pick its fights carefully in a time of tensions and uncertainties
The adjustment in Australia’s defence spending to 1.9% to 2% of GDP is reasonable. AAP/Tracey NearmyThe Conversation has asked 20 academics to examine the big ideas facing Australia for the 2016 federal election and beyond. The 20-piece series will examine, among others, the state of democracy, health, education, environment, equality,...
