Offenses involving the use of weapons during the quarantine period, increased activities of organized groups: results of another round of CENSS study

The Center for Security Studies “CENSS” continues to monitor the situation with illegal trafficking and the use of weapons in Ukraine. The study, presented in February 2020, provided the basis for further identification of the main tendencies and indicators showing the state of illegal trafficking and the use of weapons.

In this article we publish some of the results of our study concerning certain tendencies that have been observed in this sphere taking into account their relevance and expected impact on the state of illegal trafficking and the use of weapons in the future.

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How the US and Saudi Arabia beat Russia in the oil market

Published by the IA “Interfax-Ukraine” on April 13, 2020.

There has been a steady demand reduction for oil due to the spread of COVID-19 in the world. The main reasons were the current and forecasted decrease in GDP among countries around the world. The restrictions on the movement of people around the world were introduced, business and private travel, including tourism have almost stopped. Restrictions on movement inside the country by transport have also been imposed in many countries. According to some estimates, about 40 percent of the world’s population has been advised to limit their stay outside their homes.

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Russian disinformation about coronavirus is repetition of Soviet theses about AIDS

While scientists are trying to develop vaccines against the coronavirus and understand how to overcome it, the Russian mass media and bot factories are conducting a targeted campaign to convince the world that coronavirus has been specially developed by American scientists. “They say that it’s one of the weapons developed by NATO. All fake news is built by the same pattern: the virus is a development of American scientists, aimed at the leadership of the United States in the world. In fact, they “cover” messages aimed at destabilizing the situation in the United States and the European Union, and they have been trying to “tie” the status of “failed state” to Ukraine not for the first time,” noted Vadym Chernysh, the Head of the Governing Council of the CENSS Center for Security Studies.

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Russia continues to implement a long-term strategy for the integration of annexed and disputed territories

The Russian Federation continues to implement a long-term strategy to maintain control over illegally annexed and disputed territories, or such territories that may become subject to dispute (hereinafter referred to as “disputed territories”). Seeking to prevent any legal instruments that could be used to return these territories to the control of the States to which they belong or formerly belonged, the Russian Federation has followed ancient imperial approaches. One of them is to restrict the possession of land plots within disputed territories for foreign nationals and legal entities, as well as stateless persons. Детальніше

When problems in the health system become a threat to national security (COVID-19 case)

Undoubtedly, the early detection and rapid response to coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (hereinafter referred to as “coronavirus”) is a matter of national security.

According to reports of the South China Morning Post, the first case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, can be traced back to November 17, 2019, according to the data of the People’s Republic of China. The coronavirus and the disease became widely known around the world already in December.

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