Merkel: Oekraïne is een dictatuur vergelijkbaar met Wit-Rusland. Buitenland De Duitse bondskanselier Angela Merkel heeft hard uitgehaald naar de regering van Oekraïne, één van de twee gastlanden van het EK Voetbal volgende maand. Merkel zei dat de bevolking van de Oekraïne onder “dictatuur en repressie” leeft, vergelijkbaar met de situatie in buurland Wit-Rusland. Merkel deed haar uitspraken vandaag in het Duitse parlement. De harde woorden van Merkel over de regering van de Oekraïense president Viktor Janoekovitsj staan in verband met de vermoedelijk slechte behandeling van Joelia Timosjenko, de Oekraïense oud-premier die een gevangenisstraf van zeven jaar uitzit wegens ambtsmisbruik. Druk op Oekraïne verder verhoogd in aanloop naar EK Voetbal De politieke situatie en detentie van Timosjenko zorgen de laatste weken voor veel ophef. Zo dreigden de overheden van onder meer Nederland, Duitsland, Italië, Oostenrijk, Tsjechië, Estland, Letland en Slovenië vorige week al met afzegging voor het EK.
Merkel lijkt dus vandaag de druk nog wat verder op te voeren. Oekraïne schrapt top na massale boycot. Een man zit een tent met aanhangers van de gevangengenomen oud-premier Joelia Timosjenko in Kiev. Foto Reuters / Anatolii Stepanov Buitenland Oekraïne heeft de top van Midden- en Oost-Europese leiders in Jalta geschrapt. De top werd door de meeste regeringsleiders geboycot uit protest tegen de behandeling van de gevangen oud-premier Joelia Timosjenko. Meer dan twaalf staatshoofden weigerden om de top op 11 en 12 mei bij te wonen, nadat Timosjenko in hongerstaking ging uit protest tegen vermeende mishandeling in de gevangenis. Het Oekraïense ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken zegt dat de top wordt uitgesteld tot een later tijdstip. Oekraïne staat onder zware westerse druk door de gevangenneming en de vermeende mishandeling van Timosjenko, de belangrijkste rivaal van president Viktor Janoekovitsj. Lees meer over: Jalta joelia timosjenko Oekraïne Viktor Janoekovitsj. Dochter Timosjenko komt naar Duitsland | nu.nl/buitenland.
Timosjenko overgebracht naar ziekenhuis in Charkov. Foto Reuters Buitenland Joelia Timosjenko is overgebracht naar een ziekenhuis in het Oekraïense Charkov. Een konvooi van ambulances en politieauto’s arriveerde daar vanochtend. Dat meldde een correspondent van persbureau AFP. Kort daarop volgde de officiële bevestiging dat Timosjenko vanuit de vrouwengevangenis Katsjanivska (ook in Charkov) naar het ziekenhuis is gebracht. Timosjenko, die met chronische rugklachten kampt, was de afgelopen drie weken in hongerstaking uit protest tegen mishandeling door bewakers. De medische behandeling van Timosjenko is inzet geworden van een internationale diplomatieke rel.
Lees meer over: Charkov joelia timosjenko Oekraïne Yevgenia Timosjenko. Wel naar China, maar nu niet naar Oekraïne? Hypocriet. De Nederlandse Publieke Omroep maakt gebruik van cookies. We maken een onderscheid tussen functionele cookies en cookies voor het beheer van webstatistieken, advertenties en social media. De cookies bevatten geen persoonsgegevens en zijn dus niet tot een individu te herleiden. Met de cookies voor advertenties en social media worden mogelijk door derden gegevens verzameld buiten de websites van de Nederlandse Publieke Omroep.
Bij instellingen kun je aangeven deze cookies niet te accepteren. Door hiernaast op akkoord te klikken of door gebruik te blijven maken van deze website, geef je toestemming voor het plaatsen van cookies bij bezoek aan de websites van de Nederlandse Publieke Omroep. Waarom cookies? De Nederlandse Publieke Omroep maakt gebruik van cookies. Klik hier voor meer informatie over cookies en een overzicht van de sites waar je toestemming voor geldt. Cookie instellingen aanpassen? Cookie-instellingen aanpassenAkkoord. Shell sluit contract schaliegas met Oekraïne | nu.nl/economie. AMSTERDAM – Olieconcern Shell en Chevron zijn door de Oekraïne aangewezen om twee omvangrijke schaliegasvelden in het land te gaan ontwikkelen. Foto: ANP De twee oliemaatschappijen hebben de rechten verworven over de gasvelden Yuzivske en Oleske, verklaarde de Oekraïense premier Mykola Azarov zondag. Die twee velden moeten het land in 2020 voorzien van de productie van 10 procent van het gas voor binnenlands gebruik.
De verwachte investering in de velden bedraagt minstens 370 miljoen dollar (286 miljoen euro). Dat bedrag kan nog wel verder stijgen. In de Oekraïne zijn bedrijven die schaliegas produceren vrijgesteld van bepaalde belastingen. De winning van gas uit rotslagen bij beide velden begint niet eerder dan in 2018. Bieden In februari van dit jaar kondigde het land de publieke aanbesteding van de gasvelden aan. Persbureau Reuters berekende eerder dat de Oekraïne op de derde plaats staat in het rijtje van Europese landen met de grootste schaliegasreserves. Hele Europese Commissie mijdt Oekraïne | nu.nl/buitenland. Orange Revolution. The Orange Revolution (Ukrainian: Помаранчева революція, Pomarancheva revolyutsiya) was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which was claimed to be marred by massive corruption, voter intimidation and direct electoral fraud.
Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, was the focal point of the movement's campaign of civil resistance, with thousands of protesters demonstrating daily.[5] Nationwide, the democratic revolution was highlighted by a series of acts of civil disobedience, sit-ins, and general strikes organised by the opposition movement. In 2010 Yanukovych became Yushchenko's successor as Ukrainian President after the Central Election Commission and international observers declared that the presidential election were fairly conducted.[7] Background[edit] Gongadze assassination/Kuchmagate crisis[edit] Pora!
Protests[edit] Otpor! Otpor! Logo Origins[edit] Initial activity[edit] An Otpor! Membership signup recruitment slip from the movement's early days. In the beginning, Otpor's activities were limited to the University of Belgrade. The organization quickly gained prominence as the anti-regime print media outlets (most notably daily tabloid Dnevni telegraf) started featuring the clenched fist symbol in open defiance of regime's new information law. During the NATO air-strikes against FR Yugoslavia in 1999 regarding the Kosovo War, Otpor!
Organization grows into a movement[edit] A non-partisan, but overtly anti-regime organization with a loose and dynamic structure, Otpor managed to bring opposition parties together and mobilize the population of Serbia against Milošević. The strategy was based on two assumptions: During the presidential campaign of September 2000, Otpor launched its "Gotov je" (He's Finished!) Otpor! Strategy and tactics[edit] Principles of the movement[edit] Tactics[22][edit] Noncooperation[edit] United States Agency for International Development. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the United States federal government agency primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid. USAID seeks to "extend a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a better life, recover from a disaster or striving to live in a free and democratic country. "[3] It operates in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.
President John F. On 3 April 2014 the Associated Press published findings of an investigation showing how USAID engineered a program involving the creation of a Twitter-like communications network called ZunZuneo aimed at fueling political dissent to trigger a Cuban uprising.[5] Goals[edit] USAID's decentralized network of resident field missions is drawn on to manage US government (USG) programs in low-income countries for a range of purposes.[6] Disaster reliefPoverty reliefTechnical cooperation on global issues, including the environmentU.S. bilateral interestsSocioeconomic development. United States Department of State. The United States Department of State (DoS),[3] often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministry of other countries.
The Department was created in 1789 and was the first executive department established. The Department is headquartered in the Harry S Truman Building located at 2201 C Street, NW, a few blocks away from the White House in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The Department operates the diplomatic missions of the United States abroad and is responsible for implementing the foreign policy of the United States and U.S. diplomacy efforts. The Department is also the depositary for more than 200 multilateral treaties. The Department is led by the Secretary of State, who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate and is a member of the Cabinet. The current Secretary of State is John Kerry. History[edit] The U.S. Gene Sharp. Gene Sharp (born January 21, 1928) is the founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing the study of nonviolent action, and Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.[3] He is known for his extensive writings on nonviolent struggle, which have influenced numerous anti-government resistance movements around the world.
Gene Sharp has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, 2012 and 2013.[4][5][6][7] Sharp was widely considered the favourite for the 2012 award.[8][9][10] In 2011 he was awarded the El-Hibri Peace Education Prize.[11] In 2012 he was a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award [12] as well as the Distinguished Lifetime Democracy Award.[13] Biography[edit] Sharp has been a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth since 1972. Sharp's contributions to the theory of nonviolent resistance[edit] Sharp's influence on struggles worldwide[edit] Freedom House. As of 2010, grants awarded from the US government accounted for most of Freedom House's funding;[5] the grants were not earmarked by the government but allocated through a competitive process.
The organization is directed by David J. Kramer, former head of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the United States Department of State. History[edit] Freedom House was founded in October 1941. Among its founding members were George Field, Dorothy Thompson, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Agar, Herbert Bayard Swope, Ralph Bunche, Father George B. Ford, Roscoe Drummond and Rex Stout. After the war, as its website states, "Freedom House took up the struggle against the other twentieth century totalitarian threat, Communism.... The organization describes itself currently as a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world. In 1967, Freedom House absorbed Books USA, which had been created several years earlier by Edward R. Organization[edit] Freedom House is a nonprofit organization. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
Logo of the NDIFIA The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) is an organization created by the United States government by way of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) to channel grants for furthering democracy in developing nations. It was founded in 1983, shortly after the U.S. Congress created the National Endowment for Democracy.[1] Taxpayer funding is provided by the Federal Government, both directly from the United States Agency for International Development and the Department of State and indirectly through the National Endowment for Democracy. Additional funds are raised through voluntary donations from foreign governments, multilateral institutions, and private foundations.[2] It is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Under its mission, "NDI provides practical assistance to civic and political leaders advancing democratic values, practices and institutions. NDI Board of Directors & Senior Advisory Committee[edit] See also[edit] Notes[edit] International Republican Institute. Founded in 1983, the International Republican Institute (IRI) is an organisation, funded by the United States government, that conducts international political programs, sometimes called 'democratization programs'.[2] Initially known as the National Republican Institute for International Affairs, the IRI's stated mission is to "expand freedom throughout the world".
Its activities include teaching and assisting with right-wing political party and candidate development in their values, "good governance" practices, civil society development, civic education, women’s and youth leadership development, electoral reform and election monitoring, and political expression in closed societies.
It has been chaired by former presidential candidate John McCain since January 1993.[1][3] Background[edit] The IRI is a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 1983 after U.S. The Westminster speech led to the establishment of the National Endowment for Democracy by Congress in 1983. Activities[edit] National Endowment for Democracy. The President of the National Endowment for Democracy, Carl Gershman(pictured, second from the left), presents an award to a Tunisian leader of the Arab Spring in November 2011. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. non-profit soft power organization that was founded in 1983 to promote democracy.
It is funded primarily through an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress, within the budget of USAID, the U.S. agency for development assistance, which is part of the U.S. History[edit] Founding[edit] A bill was introduced in April 1967 by Congressman Dante Fascell (D,FL) to create an institute of International Affairs. And although the bill did not pass it led to discussions on Capitol Hill to establish an institution in which democracy efforts abroad would benefit the U.S. as well as countries struggling for freedom and self- government.
Later history[edit] Overview[edit] Source of funding[edit] Board[edit] Activities[edit] Funding of foreign political candidates[edit] China[edit] Boris Berezovsky (businessman) George Soros. Soros is a well-known supporter of progressive-liberal political causes.[11] Between 1979 and 2011, Soros gave away over $8 billion to human rights, public health, and education causes.[12] He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe (1984–89)[8] and provided one of Europe's largest higher education endowments to Central European University in Budapest.[13] Soros is also the chairman of the Open Society Foundations. Early life[edit] The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices. I was told to go to the Jewish Council.
And there I was given these small slips of paper ... It said report to the rabbi seminary at 9 am ... Soros did not return to that job, but instead went into hiding the next day. Soros emigrated to England in 1947 and became an impoverished student at the London School of Economics.[22] While a student of the philosopher Karl Popper, Soros worked as a railway porter and as a waiter. Open Society Institute.