Child Survivor of the Holocaust in Poland and Ukraine tells the story
Shimon Redlich: “understanding humanity” “We want more events like this,” said a Ukrainian member of the audience of the event on May 18, 2016, dedicated to the personal experience of surviving the Holocaust in Poland and Ukraine. It brought together the representatives of the Ukrainian, Polish and Jewish communities in London. Communities which...
OSCE media freedom representative, human rights chief welcome release of Khadija Ismayilova
VIENNA / WARSAW, 25 May 2016 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović and the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Michael Georg Link, today welcomed the release of the Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender Khadija Ismayilova. “Her release is a very positive step, as was...
ODIHR Director Link welcomes Nadiya Savchenko’s release, stresses need to respect rights of remaining prisoners
WARSAW, 25 May 2016 – Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, welcomed the release today of Ukrainian pilot and member of parliament, Nadiya Savchenko, who had been held in Russia since 2014. “I am very happy at the news of the release of Nadiya Savchenko,” Director Link said. “I hope that the...
Savchenko Released in Prisoner Swap
In exchange, Kyiv releases two Russians it accuses of being special operatives. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Realism Restrained: the Washington Playbook Strikes Back
Emma Ashford In Washington, D.C., where calls for the United States to do more abroad are incessant — whether in Syria, Libya, Ukraine, or the South China Sea — it can be unexpected and even jarring to hear speakers say that America should do less. So last week’s Advancing American Security conference, hosted by the Charles Koch Institute,...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier welcomes the release of Nadiya Savchenko
BERLIN, 25 May 2016 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier today welcomed the release of the Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko. “I am glad and relieved that the Nadiya Savchenko has been released at last and that she can now return to her family in Ukraine,” Steinmeier said. “This is good news for...
One year of Ukraine’s De-communisation. A change in the historical narrative
The implementation of the de-communisation laws is visibly changing Ukraine’s political landscape, both in its physical aspect and its intellectual-moral aspect. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Worldwide Search for Chechen Leader’s Missing Cat
‘I knew long ago that in the USA unevenly breathe to my younger friends,’ Ramzan Kadyrov says in puzzling Instagram post. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Nazi-era philosopher who wrote the blueprint for the New Authoritarianism
Donald Trump, Rodrigo Duterte, Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin – from Manila to Moscow, Washington to Budapest, populist authoritarians are the new normal. In Hungary, Orban, the prime minister, aims to build an “illiberal democracy” while in Russia, Putin long ago crushed independent journalism and political opposition. Turkey’s Recep Tayyip...
Newly-published handbook on theory of law presented by OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Andrii Dziubenko The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and its longstanding partner, the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, on 20 May 2016 presented a handbook on the theory of law, one of the fundamental legal disciplines, which was developed by a group of prominent researchers from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Yaroslav Mudryi...
