The Razumkov Centre Newsletter №5 (34)
The new issue of the Razumkov Centre Newsletter contains articles and interviews of the Centre’s experts on the most important issues of Ukraine’s life in the areas of national security and defence, economy, energy, internal, external and social policy. In the issue: “What can we expect from the new Hroysman Government?”; “The...
Caribbean Offshore Laundered Stolen Russian Tax Money, Report Claims
The company also bought Rosneft shares from Putin intimate Sergei Roldugin, Panama Papers documents show. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Breaking through distrust in relations between Romania and Ukraine
The main cause for this change is the two sides’ concurrent perception of risks in the Black Sea region since Russia’s annexation of Crimea. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Ukraine cannot abandon nuclear power because it is a cornerstone of its energy sector
Thirty years have passed since the Chernobyl power plant disaster, one of the world’s worst nuclear accidents. The anniversary of the catastrophe is another reminder that nuclear energy could become a major threat to the world if it is not handled with care and caution. Yet, many experts argue that currently, nuclear power is much safer...
OSCE supports seminar for law enforcement on investigating human trafficking in Kazakhstan
237476 Colin McCullough, OSCE Programme Office in Astana The first in a series of five OSCE-supported two-day training seminars for more than 30 law-enforcement officers from 14 regions of Kazakhstan on investigative techniques and …read more Source:...
Fortress Russia: Pushing Foreigners Back
This week marked the 30th anniversary of the April 26, 1986, Chernobyl reactor meltdown—a nuclear disaster that saturated northern Ukraine, southern Belarus and parts of western Russia with radioactivity in the worst fallout in human history. But in the present atmosphere of acute anti-Western sentiment in Russia, even Chernobyl is being used by...
Ukraine Reform Monitor: April 2016
Ukraine is in danger of repeating its experience after the 2004 Orange Revolution, when reformers won the vote in national elections but failed to govern effectively. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Serbia to introduce ODIHR/Anne Frank House teaching materials on anti-Semitism in classrooms
237301 Teaching Materials to Challenge anti-Semitism The Serbian government and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) agreed on 28 April 2016, to implement teaching materials on anti-Semitism in classrooms across …read more Source:...
Finnish Police to implement OSCE/ODIHR hate crime training programme
237281 Training Against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE): Programme Description The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Police Board of Finland, signed an agreement on 28 April 2016 …read more Source:...
The establishment of a self-regulating body of the Prosecutor rules out the chances of Ukraine’s prosecutor’s office being reformed
The establishment of a self-regulating body in the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office has eliminated the possibility that this organisation will be reformed. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
