Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 23 October 2015
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 situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions was relatively calm although a number of explosions were recorded. The situation remained...
Democracy and Disorientation: Ukraine Votes in Local Elections
Ukrainians will go to the polls on October 25 to choose their mayors and local council deputies. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Netanyahu, the Grand Mufti and the Holocaust: why it is important to get the historical facts right
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, met with Adolf Hitler in 1941. Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1987-004-09A, Amin al Husseini und Adolf Hitler” by Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1987-004-09A / Heinrich Hoffmann, CC BY-SAIn a speech to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem on October 20, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused...
International election observers to present findings at press conference in Kyiv on Monday
KYIV, 23 October 2015 – The international observers deployed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities and the European Parliament will present their preliminary statement of findings and conclusions on the 25 October local elections in...
OSCE hands over a software programme for safe fire-fighting in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
CHORNOBYL, Ukraine, 22 October 2015 – A software programme for estimating radiation doses in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone for Ukrainian firefighters engaged in suppressing local wildfires was today handed over to the State Enterprise “Chornobyl Spetskombinat” by the OSCE. The software programme accumulates vast volumes of data on...
Spot report by OSCE Observer Mission: A forty-first Russian convoy of 46 vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned back through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point
Please note that this report is for media and the general public SUMMARY On 22 October 2015 at 06:58hrs (Moscow time), a Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 46 vehicles were checked by the Russian border guard and customs services. All the vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation by 14:47hrs...
High Turnout of Grumpy Voters Expected in Ukraine Elections
Residents of rebel-held areas and many internally displaced people can’t vote in the third round of nationwide elections since the Maidan uprising. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Addressing women’s under-representation in contemporary security environment in focus at OSCE Border Management Staff College discussion
DUSHANBE, 23 October 2015 – Ways to increase the recruitment, retention and advancement of female border officers to address women’s under-representation in border security management were highlighted at a roundtable discussion held today in Dushanbe at the OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC). Assessing the role of women in the...
OSCE autumn school on criminal law aims at improving the quality of legal education in Ukraine
Andrii Dziubenko The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine is organizing an autumn school in Kyiv from 22 to 24 October 2015, bringing together law professors from 15 universities across Ukraine to learn about the current trends in criminal law and teaching methodologies. Prominent Ukrainian experts delivered presentations on novelties in criminal...
Norway May Turn Back Bicycle-Mounted Asylum Seekers
Is Oslo’s new policy a sign of warming relations with Moscow or ‘Russophobia’? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
