Turkish Leader Pledges Closer Relationship With Russia
In St. Petersburg, Erdogan is expecting praise for his crackdown at home, and understanding of his Syria policy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30, 4 August 2016
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region compared to the day before including more than 520 explosions. In Luhansk region the SMM noted a decrease in recorded ceasefire violations compared to the previous day. On the night of 4 August, the SMM heard single shots of small-arms...
Poland Won’t Lift Restrictions on Kaliningrad Border
Residents of Russian exclave deprived of visa-free regime for an unspecified period of time over security concerns. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine Rejects Russia’s Proposed Ambassador to Kiev
August 4, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Dispatches from Red Square: reporting Russia’s revolutions then and now
“No news from Petrograd yesterday”, was the headline in the Daily Mail on March 14, 1917. The story – or non-story – which followed, was only a few dozen words: “Up to a late hour last night the Russian official report, which for many months has come to hand early, had not been received”, it ran. So why publish it? The non-appearance of the daily...
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
…read more Source: German Institute for International and Security...
Leadership in the Ukraine conflict: A German moment
…read more Source: German Institute for International and Security...
