Spot Report by the Observer Mission at the Russian checkpoints of Gukovo and Donetsk: A forty-fifth Russian convoy of 45 vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned back through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point
This report is for the media and general public. SUMMARY On 26 November 2015 at 06:50hrs (Moscow time), a Russian convoy* arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 45 vehicles were checked by the Russian border guard and customs services. All the vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation by 14:15hrs on 26...
Turkey Downs a Russian Jet: RUSI Responds
RUSI experts offered their responses to the downing of a Russian jet by the Turkish military on 24 November 2015.The Pot Boils OverMichael Stephens, Research Fellow for Middle East Studies at RUSI, argues the shooting will have serious consequences for Russo-Turkish relations, relations between NATO and Russia, and the ongoing conflict in...
Russian Pilot: Turkish Jets Fired Without Warning
Russia slaps restrictions on agricultural imports in first concrete action against Ankara. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukrainian power plants have at least 2.3 million tons of coal in storage
The deliberate blackout, caused on Nov. 21 when saboteurs destroyed pylons carrying electricity from the mainland Ukraine to the Crimea, has left more than half of peninsula’s two million people without power, the Kyiv Post writes. Viktor Logatsky, an energy expert from the Razumkov Centrе, voiced the concern that Russia might order the...
Warsaw Repatriates Ethnic Poles From Eastern Ukraine
Another 188 people have arrived in Poland from the war-torn Donetsk region. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russo-Turkish Tensions Since the Start of the Russian Air Campaign
Russia and Turkey have long been at odds over Syria, with Moscow backing President Bashar al Assad and Ankara supporting the opposition to overthrow him. Tensions increased dramatically with the start of the Russian air campaign on September 30. The Turkish shoot-down of a Russian combat aircraft on November 24 is an escalation in this tense...
Montenegro’s Working group on media self-regulation adopts new journalists’ Code of Ethics, discusses future steps
VIENNA, 25 November 2015 – At a roundtable discussion today organized by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, members of the Working Group on Self-Regulation in Montenegro adopted their newly-amended Journalists’ Code of Ethics, and also agreed to hold a follow-up roundtable discussion in Podgorica. “The adoption...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 24 November 2015
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”, including the Addendum. Its monitoring was restricted by the parties and security considerations*. The SMM recorded a significant increase of ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk...
Nato Should Not Risk a Wrong Turn Over Turkey-and Ukraine
Recent events in Turkey and Ukraine have exposed serious miscalculations in the West’s handling of Russia. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Russia Halts Gas Supplies to Ukraine
Moscow cut gas supplies to Kyiv for nonpayment, may halt coal deliveries over Crimea blackout. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
