Crimean Court Bans Tatar Assembly
The highest representative body of the indigenous community accused of spreading “aggression and hatred towards Russia.” …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Sides must respect ceasefire in order to reverse worsening security situation in Ukraine, say OSCE Chairmanship Special Representative and Chief Monitor
VIENNA, 28 April 2016 – The sides in eastern Ukraine must urgently and fully respect the ceasefire in order to reverse the worsening security situation, 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 Monitoring Mission to...
Spot Report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM): Shelling in Olenivka
This report is for media and the general public. Summary Four civilians were killed close to a “DPR” checkpoint near Olenivka when shelling occurred in the early hours of 27 April. Detail At 10:01 on 27 April, the SMM arrived on Lenina Street on the southern edge on “DPR”-controlled Olenivka (23km south-west of Donetsk), 650m north of a “DPR”...
Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 26 April 2016
This report is for media and the general public. SUMMARY Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall cross-border traffic increased at both BCPs. OPERATIONAL REMARKS The OM is currently operating with 21 permanent international staff members...
A Family Reflects on the Chernobyl Disaster
Three generations explain how their lives were transformed by the nuclear explosion in 1986. From the Guardian. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Obstruction of journalists’ work in Ukraine worrying, OSCE representative says
VIENNA, 26 April 2016 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed concern about the obstruction of the work of Savik Shuster, journalist, producer and host of the “Shuster Live” television show in Ukraine. According to reports, the Kyiv City Employment Centre yesterday annulled Shuster’s work permit. The...
Russia bans Mejlis, declares war on Crimean Tatar people while the West watches
A Crimean court has formally completed its criminalization of the Mejlis, or self-governing body of the Crimean Tatar people. There have been no serious threats of sanctions or other measures from European structures and western countries although this is a direct attack on the main indigenous people of Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv...
Ukraine’s New Concept Paper on Security and Defense Reform
Maksym Bugriy, a research fellow of foreign relations and international security programmes at the Razumkov Centre, has contributed to the Eurasia Daily Monitor published by the Jamestown Foundation on the reform of Ukraine’s security and defense sector. Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 13 Issue: 79 …read more Source:...
From Concealment to Half-Truths about the Chornobyl Disaster
With so much media attention now, it is hard to imagine the terrible silence & dearth of information in 1986, when virtually nothing was reported, and no advice given on fundamental safety measures and when communist officials, who had evacuated their own children, sent others onto the street for May Day ‘celebrations’ …read more...
Why are Putin’s Enemies held in Ukrainian Prisons?
If Ukraine’s SBU has evidence that Olga Sheveleva, Anastasia Leonova and Pavel Pyatakov were working for Russia’s FSB, they have not revealed it. Yet they are being held in detention on the ludicrous grounds that they could flee to Russia, where each can expect arrest for their opposition to the Putin regime and support for Ukraine...
