Stark warning of bloody provocation planned against Crimean Tatars
The warning from a well-known Russian analyst that Russia could be planning to use methods seen in the Caucasus to stage a provocation and then a bloody crackdown against Crimean Tatars is difficult to dismiss, and not only because of the virulent propaganda campaign in the Russian and other pro-Kremlin media. …read more Source: Kharkiv...
OSCE donates equipment for the removal of the unexploded ordnance to State Emergency Service of Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine, 14 April 2016 – On behalf of the OSCE Secretariat and in close cooperation with the Project Coordinator in Ukraine (PCU), Deputy to the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine Jeffrey Erlich donated today to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU) the first lot of equipment for the removal of unexploded ordnances (UXO) in...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 13 April 2016
This report is for media and the geenral public. The SMM observed fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region compared with the previous day. In Luhansk the SMM observed a higher number of ceasefire violations compared with the previous day. The SMM noted that weapons were absent from storage sites and observed weapons in violation of withdrawal...
Russian Police Seek Readers of Dangerous Books on Ukraine
Borrowers checked out library books on the Ukrainian famine as long as 18 years ago. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission’s Principal Deputy Chief Monitor to brief media tomorrow via videolink from Donetsk
KYIV, 14 April 2016 – Alexander Hug, the Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), will hold a special news briefing tomorrow via video link from Donetsk city. Hug will talk about the recent Mission’s activities and the general security situation throughout Ukraine. Journalists are invited to...
Yerevan Protesters Denounce Russian Arms Sales to Azerbaijan
Kremlin says it will continue to supply arms to both sides despite renewed fighting in breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
IWP presented “Foreign Policy Audit: Ukraine-Turkey” (photos)
On April 13, the Institute of World Policy held a public discussion “Ukraine-Turkey: New Black Sea Union?”. …read more Source: Institute of World...
The Dutch Referendum on EU-Ukraine Treaty Doesn’t Signal a Step Towards Nexit
The European Union’s treaty with Ukraine was rebuffed by Dutch voters on April 6 with over 60% rejecting it in a low turnout referendum. The government must now reconsider the treaty. Initiators of the referendum hope that it will be a step towards a “Nexit” – the exit of the Netherlands from the EU. But even if more Dutch referendums are...
Corruption Is The New Communism
In many ways, Russian corruption is the new Soviet Communism. Kremlin-sponsored graft is the new Red Menace. And the Soviet Union’s attempts to subvert the West with the power of an idea has given way to Vladimir Putin’s Russia seeking to corrupt it with the lure of easy money …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Abkhazia’s President Faces Public Campaign Calling for His Resignation
At the beginning of March 2016, a large coalition of organizations opposed to the president of the breakaway Georgian republic of Abkhazia, Raul Khajimba, started gathering signatures calling for a referendum. The proposed question for the referendum is “Do you consider it necessary to hold early presidential elections in the Republic of...
