Secrecy Over Accident at Belarus Nuclear Plant Worries Neighbors
Details are still emerging over the incident, though it occurred almost a month ago. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
‘Zombie’ Anthrax Threatening Remote Siberian Peninsula
Experts believe rising temperatures in the Arctic Circle caused permafrost to thaw and release infectious anthrax spores from a diseased reindeer carcass. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
OSCE media freedom representative urges protection for journalists reporting on civil unrest in Armenia
VIENNA, 1 August 2016 – At the end of the siege of police headquarters in Yerevan, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today sought reassurance from the foreign minister of Armenia that journalists’ rights and safety during times of civil unrest would be protected. Mijatović wrote to Foreign Minister Edward...
Germany and the Eastern Partnership After the Ukraine Crisis
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Leadership in the Ukraine conflict: A German moment
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Ukraine’s Foreign Policy Audit
The Institute of World Policy has launched a large-scale analytical project Ukraine’s Foreign Policy Audit. …read more Source: Institute of World...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30, 28 July 2016
This report is for the media and the general public. The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer in Luhansk region compared with the previous day. The largest concentration of ceasefire violations in Donetsk region was recorded during night hours in the area of Horlivka and Svitlodarsk, while during the day the Donetsk...
Impunity in Ukraine in the assessment of western human rights activists
On the positive features and failings of the report by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30, 27 July 2016
This report is for the media and the general public. The SMM recorded a similar number of ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions compared with the previous day. The largest concentration of ceasefire violations was recorded in the area north of Donetsk city centre and Svitlodarsk. The SMM conducted crater analysis in...
Urgent steps needed towards full respect for ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, says OSCE Chairmanship Special Representative and Chief Monitor
VIENNA, 28 July 2016 – Urgent steps are needed by the sides in eastern Ukraine to ensure full respect for the ceasefire and reduce the impact of the violence on civilians, said the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group Martin Sajdik and the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special...
