Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 9 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 visited the “LPR”-controlled Dolzhansky (84km south-east of Luhansk) border...
Reuters Outs Putin’s Daughter
Mathematician-dancer’s partner is son of Putin associate, does business with other oligarchs. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russian Artist Fights FSB With Fire
Pyotr Pavlensky, notorious for radical protests, targets KGB successor over reign of ‘terror.’ …read more Source: Transitions Online...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities assesses inter-ethnic situation in south-eastern Ukraine
Report of the Human Rights Assessment Mission on Crimea (6–18 July 2015) Language and identity in Ukraine OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Astrid Thors visited Ukraine from 2 to 6 November 2016, including trips to Kyiv as well as Mariupol, where she …read more Source:...
OSCE/ODIHR Director Link to present findings of report on the human rights situation of detainees at Guantanamo at event in Vienna on Thursday
VIENNA, 10 November 2015 – Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), will present the findings of the ODIHR report, The Human Rights Situation of Detainees at Guantanamo, on Thursday, 12 November, at the Hofburg Conference Centre in Vienna. The report contains the findings of the...
Romanian President Rejects Moldova Loan
Chisinau left almost bereft of potential aid donors. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia Charges Suspected Mastermind of Nemtsov Murder
The suspect is an officer in a security force described as Chechen ruler Kadyrov’s private militia. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Participation in program “Georgia/South Caucasus between the European Union, eastern partners and the Eurasian Economic Union”
Expert of Economic Programmes at the Razumkov Centre Markevych Kateryna took part in Program “Georgia/South Caucasus between the European Union, eastern partners and the Eurasian Economic Union” that was held on 2-5 November 2015 in Georgia. Representatives of governmental, political and scientific organizations from Azerbaijan, Belarus,...
Security sector of Ukraine is largely disordered and unworkable
The state-owned UkrOboronProm arms factory this year is expected to churn out 40 of its Oplot main battle tank, and next year will make 120. That’s a 2,300 percent increase over the five the factory produced last year, the Miami Herald writes. Despite the gains, Mykola Sunhurovskyi, the director of military programs at the Razumkov Center,...
Moldovan Justice: Fast and Furious
Politics make for strange bedfellows, but politicians of all stripes see one man, Vlad Plahotniuc, a billionaire ‘gray eminence’, as having orchestrated their arrests or prolonged detentions. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
