Ukraine’s Parliament Stages Championship Fight, Reminding World It’s Still Ukraine
Bang-up job, guys. Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, reached a new achievement in dysfunction yesterday by descending into a literal brawl. Oleh Barna, a member of President Petro Poroshenko’s eponymously-titled political party (the “Petro Poroshenko Bloc,” a naming convention sadly too common here, though they added back in...
Unlike many EU politicians, Biden objectively assessed the situation in Donbas
Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk says that the most serious and not very pleasant message for the Ukrainian politics given by Joe Biden is obvious concern about the level of corruption in Ukraine and the lack of progress in the fight against it, informs the website...
Russian Prosecutor Accuses Khodorkovsky of Murder and Coup Plot
Fresh murder charge comes after Mikhail Khodorkovsky allegedly called for violent overthrow of authorities under President Putin. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Toxic Waste Remains at Ukraine Site, Despite $125m Project
Investigation by Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project points to a dangerous fraud. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Postcard from Minsk
December 2015Fifth-term blues: Belarus needs reform but its leader isn’t keen, Volume 71, Number 6Author: Artyom Shraibman is a contributor to the independent Belarusian news portal www.tut.by Alexander Lukashenka, who was known as the last dictator of Europe until the title drifted to Vladimir Putin, has won a fifth term as president of...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 9 December 2015
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM recorded a number of ceasefire violations, mostly near Donetsk airport. It experienced a number of freedom-of-movement restrictions but it did reach border areas not controlled by the Government*. It noted a Right Sector protest in Kirovohrad and the election of a Svoboda party member as...
Researchers and practitioners discuss innovative solutions to border issues at OSCE Border Management Staff College
DUSHANBE, 10 December 2015 – Innovative solutions to address border issues using new technologies and methods were discussed at the four-day OSCE Cross-Border Research Conference in Dushanbe which concluded today with a study trip to Tajikistan’s nearby border with Afghanistan. Twenty-one researcher and senior-level officials from border,...
OSCE supports training course on trial monitoring for civil society organizations
Andrii Dziubenko The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and USAID’s “Fair Justice” project organized a two-day training course for 22 representatives of civil society organizations on trial monitoring, which concluded on 10 December 2015 in Kyiv. The participants discussed trial monitoring methodology developed by the OSCE Office for...
Crimea in Darkness
As its power supply slowly returns to normal, TOL looks at how the people of Crimea are coping with blackouts and shortages. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Implementation of the Minsk Agreements and implications of the sanctions on Russia – Time for a stock-take
A measured approach towards Russia …read more Source: European Policy...
