Year: 2019

“We Often Are a Defending Party. While We Should Actively Advocate Our Principles”

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July 11, 2019, the Ukrinform hosted an interesting discussion on the upcoming meeting of the UN Security Council on the Ukrainian Language Law. The meeting of the Security Council was again initiated by the Russian Federation   The charitable foundation “Accent” together with the public initiative “Amber Way” this time devoted their event to the RF’s so-called initiative to hold a meeting of the UN Security Council, on the agenda of which would be the Language Law of Ukraine. Participants of the event in the Ukrinform expressed their seeing of this not ordinary event, outlined a series of related problems that Russia is trying to shift onto Ukraine, and…

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Mykhaylo Savva: “Modern technologies of influence on public opinion, actually, make it possible to take a person “from nowhere” and create a leader”

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Interview with the Chairman of the Board of the Expert Group “SOVA”   — Recently, at one of the round tables at the Center for Russian Studies, in your report “From Simulative Democracy to Neo-Totalitarianism” you pointed out 17 features of a modern authoritarian regime. Is this from the experience of modern Russia or did you mean historical events in a broader, world-wide context? — The features I mentioned are the result of research by many scientists from different countries. The fact that authoritarian regimes are characteristic not only for our time, they were in the historical past, and probably and unfortunately, will be in the future too. Their characteristics have been traced at all stages of historical…

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V. Hvozd: “…Intelligence Is Always an Invisible Intellectual Duel”

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Visiting the Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine   Recently, the Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine was visited by the well known Ukrainian military, intelligence officer and diplomat, president of the “Borysfen Intel” Independent Analytical Center for Geopolitical Studies, Lieutenant General Hvozd Victor Ivanovych. The library’s readers and staff are sincerely grateful to Victor Ivanovych for the books donated to the VNLU funds. This is, in particular, his monograph “Historical, Legal and Political Aspects of the State’s Intelligence Activity” (Kyiv, 2018), which contains the comprehensive analysis of intelligence activities in the context of the system of ensuring the national security of the state. In V. Hvozd’s right opinion: “…intelligence is always…

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Once Again About the Language

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What Russia Wants and What It Is After   Ivan Sichen In June 2019 Russia for the second time in a row initiated a meeting of the UN Security Council because of Ukraine’s new Language Law. For the first time such an initiative was put forward by Moscow on May 20, 2019, but it did not find support from members of the Security Council. In this regard, it was clearly stated that the issue is Ukraine’s internal affair and does not create threats to security of other countries or the world as a whole. At the same time, Russia is once again trying to exacerbate the situation around the Language Law of Ukraine at the international level.…

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Analysis of Threats to the National Security of Germany

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2018 Annual Report of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV)   Serhiy Polyovyk The institution responsible for internal security and timely and effective counteraction to threats in Germany is the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitutions (BfV). This is one of the secret services that performs counter-intelligence tasks and collects information about spyware that is being conducted on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany in favor of other countries. June 27, 2019, Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany, Horst Seehofer and President of the BfV Thomas Haldenwang, issued a BfV document entitled “The 2018 Report on the Protection of the Constitution”. Traditionally,…

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Latin America. Analytical Review 06/2019

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Kateryna Vakarchuk The Political and Economic Situation in June 2019   June 2019, was a month of serious events in South America. In particular, as far as Venezuela is concerned, the international community’s interest to the country will not fade; Bolivia is protesting against the 15-year reign of dictator Evo Morales; Mexico and the United States are negotiating on settling the migration crisis. But the MERCOSUR community after the G20 summit in Japan may be happy with the establishment of most beneficial in history relations with the European Union.      The article is available in Ukrainian

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