Inadequate charges & sentences over violent homophobic attack on Kyiv Gay Pride march
Nine months after an Equality March in Kyiv was attacked by right-wing homophobic thugs, four men have received 2-year suspended sentences. No hate crime component was taken into account and the defendants were deemed to deserve a milder sentence for their ‘sincere remorse’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
OSCE Special Representative Erler on the situation in eastern Ukraine
BERLIN, 9 April 2016 – Gernot Erler, Special Representative of the Federal Government of Germany for the OSCE Chairmanship, today issued the following statement on OSCE reports of increasing violations of the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine and on the safety of OSCE monitors: “The latest OSCE reports on increasing numbers of ceasefire...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 7 April 2016
This report is for media and the general public. In Donetsk region, the SMM observed a slightly higher number of ceasefire violations. In Luhansk region a low number of ceasefire violations were recorded. The Mission continued to monitor the withdrawal of weapons, and noted weapons missing from storage sites, as well as weapons in violation. The...
Aarhus Centres excel in community-based disaster risk reduction, concluded at OSCE-organized discussion in Vienna
VIENNA, 8 April 2016 – More than 60 representatives of Aarhus Centres, local authorities, state agencies for emergency situations, NGOs and international and regional organizations concluded in Vienna today a two-year project on community-based disaster risk reduction. Disaster risk reduction is a systematic approach including measures for...
What Trump Got Right about U.S. Allies
Doug Bandow Many of Donald Trump’s most disagreeable policy positions are also those that garner the most media attention. Occasionally, though, his opinions also reflect basic common sense. Consider his recent argument that Washington’s prosperous allies in Asia and Europe don’t pay enough in return for U.S. defense guarantees....
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...
Putin Says Washington Behind ‘Panama Papers’ Leaks
Ukrainian journalists claim Poroshenko’s involvement in offshores far greater than leaked documents reveal. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Netherlands Referendum on the EU–Ukraine Association Agreement: What Is the Effect of the “No” Vote?
In a referendum in the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 6 April, 61% of voters were against ratification of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. Their decision may delay Ukraine’s integration with the EU and will strengthen those political forces in Ukraine that oppose the country’s modernisation and cooperation with international...
The Dutch Referendum on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: Legal options for navigating a tricky and awkward situation
The Dutch Referendum on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: Legal options for navigating a tricky and awkward situationGuillaume Van der Loo08 April 2016 …read more Source: Centre for European Policy...
Without attracting investment, the policy of saving cannot overcome the financial crisis
In his comment to the news agency BBC, Economic Research Consultant of the Razumkov Centre Volodymyr Sidenko spoke about the lessons that Ukraine should have learnt from experience of the financial crisis in Greece. Living in debt for years is a totally unacceptable policy which eventually leads a country into huge problems. We can see it not...
