Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Dutch Parliament Keeps EU-Ukraine Deal Alive
EU treaty with Kyiv safe for now, as country also nears agreement on major prisoner swap with Russia. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Shame on You, Netherlands
In a recent referendum, the Dutch people rejected the EU-Ukraine association agreement. Or rather, it was rejected by a majority of the just over 30 percent of Dutch people who decided to participate in this—for lack of a better word—joke.On the day of the referendum, a cartoon with the statement, “If you are voting against, find Ukraine on the...
Dutch Court Overturns Massive Yukos Shareholder Award
Russia dismantled the oil company once run by Mikhail Khodorkovsky after the oligarch was jailed on fraud charges. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine Leader Says Russia Appears to Agree to Prisoner Swap
April 20, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Foreign Policy Audit: Ukraine-Hungary
The discussion paper was written by Ivan Medynskyi, research fellow at the Institute of World Policy, and Bence Kapcsos, invited Hungarian expert. …read more Source: Institute of World...
Gove: UK would remain part of “free-trade zone stretching from Iceland to Turkey” after Brexit
Gove: UK would remain part of “free-trade zone stretching from Iceland to Turkey” after BrexitJustice Secretary and Vote Leave chair Michael Gove said yesterday, “There is a free-trade zone stretching from Iceland to Turkey that all European nations have access to, regardless of whether they are in our out of the euro or EU. After we vote to...
Russian on ‘List of Terrorists & Extremists’ for Online Criticism of War Against Ukraine
46-year-old Yekaterina Vologzheninova was placed on Russia’s notoriously long ‘List of Extremists and Terrorists’ and convicted of ‘inciting enmity’ for reposting or ‘liking’ material on social networks critical of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and war in Donbas …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Nadiya Savchenko ends hunger strike
Nadiya Savchenko has agreed to end her hunger strike, following a conversation with her mother and President Petro Poroshenko. The news came the day after the sentencing of two Russian military intelligence officers caught fighting in the Luhansk oblast and a telephone conversation between Presidents Poroshenko and Vladimir Putin. …read...
Lukashenka in Turkey: Establishing Economic Ties
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka paid a visit to Turkey, last week, in conjunction with the April 14–15 Istanbul meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Founded in 1969, the OIC has 57 members and holds meetings once every three years. At the Istanbul meeting, 33 countries were represented by the heads of state or...
Russian Authorities Act Against Crimean Tatars
Ban on political body called attempt to stamp out remaining critical voices on peninsula. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
