In a move that suggests the Russian authorities have decided to crack down hard on the striking long-haul truck drivers, police last night arrested more than 20 drivers legally parked near Moscow and then planted evidence that could be...
US President Donald Trump has proposed cutting all assistance to the democratic opposition in Belarus, a move that if copied by European countries which currently provide far more aid, could make the future of Belarus ever bleaker,...
On 24 May 2017, the day of Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko’s annual report in the Ukrainian Parliament – Ed 23 people have been arrested in a joint operation of Ukraine’s National Police and Military Prosecutor’s office....
Pope Francis met with Ukrainian soldiers during his general audience on St. Peter’s Square in Vatican on Wednesday, May 24. “I will not stop praying to the Lord for peace for the dear Ukrainian land,” the Pope pronounced...
Many commentators have discussed whether Vladimir Putin is a fascist in any serious sense, but most have failed to consider one area where fascism has clearly arisen in his Russia: in the aesthetics that increasingly inform Moscow’s...
Moscow has taken great pride in the fact that the number of Russians incarcerated in its penal system has fallen in recent years, but it has not stressed two current shortcomings of the system: the number of prisoners per 100,000 (434)...
The war against anti-corruption activists intensified in Ukraine. And its methods are now so convoluted that it is hard to tell reality from fakes. On 23 May 2017 during a briefing in the Verkhovna Rada Parliament, Ukrainian MPs watched a...
On 22 May 2017, the Washington State Senate approved a resolution calling Holodomor “genocide by Stalin’s regime against the people of Ukraine,” Voice of America reported. The resolution was introduced by Republican...
Late in the evening on May 24, 2016, people in Russian road police uniform intercepted and abducted the 30-year-old Crimean Tatar lawyer Ervin Ibragimov. This moment was shot by CCTV cameras. The video shows him trying to escape from the...
The document acknowledges that governments or organized non-state actors take to Facebook to “distort domestic or foreign political sentiment, most frequently to achieve a strategic and/or geopolitical outcome.” There is more to...
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Conflict Context To start, the Euromaidan—the initial flashpoint from which armed conflict became possible—was not simply a response to the failures of the Orange Revolution in 2004, but a larger movement against structural failures...
