Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 20 October 2015
Please note that this report is for media and the general public. SUMMARY Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall cross-border traffic increased at both BCPs. A fortieth Russian Convoy crossed the Donetsk BCP. DETAIL OM’s staff...
Moscow-Region Businessman Kills 4 in Shooting Spree
Unverified accounts say Amiran Georgadze opened fire after officials rejected his demand for a giant bribe. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Latvia Curiously Unmoved by Suggestion That Fences Don’t Work
Latvia is building a fence to keep the migrant wave from its shores. That fence will be on the Russian border. For any of you not following the news closely, the current migrant wave is coming through the European Union. Russia is not a member of the EU. Lithuania and Estonia, which border Latvia, are. Latvia has a large, restive, minority ethnic...
Russian Faces ‘Ethnic Hatred’ Charge for Sharing YouTube Videos
The suspect’s name was on an official list of suspected ‘terrorists’ before her case went to trial. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Just 200 yards from where Malaysia Airlines MH17 crashed last year in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, commerce is winning over war. Miners working in an illegal, hand-dug pit are extracting coal that’s destined to be sold to loyalists in the west.
Just 200 yards from where Malaysia Airlines MH17 crashed last year in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, commerce is winning over war. Miners working in an illegal, hand-dug pit are extracting coal that’s destined to be sold to loyalists in the west, the Bloomberg reports. The arrangement has its pitfalls, said Volodymyr Omelchenko, director of...
Viber to Comply With New Russian Data Law
Google says law not behind decision to close its St. Petersburg center. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Militants in Donbas may become “people’s police”
In his column on the website Novoe Vremia, Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk wrote how the armed group of separatists in Donbas may become “people’s police” or even the “border guard” of Ukraine, which will not be controlled by Kyiv. Petro Poroshenko stated that by...
The bill on amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine contains many contradictions
Research fellow of the Razumkov Centre Viktor Musiyaka told the Rakurs website about the main obstacles and flaws in the process of constitutional reform in Ukraine. …read more Source: Razumkov...
Hybrid warfare: the lessons of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict
Short version of the speech by Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sunhurovskyi at the discussion panel Modern World – Modern Threats: Responses to Hybrid Aggression during the Security Forum within the XXV Economic Forum in Krynica, Poland. …read more Source: Razumkov...
Presentation of the results of the project Ukraine’s Party System Before and After the Maidan: Changes, Trends, and Public Demands
The project Ukraine’s Party System Before and After the Maidan: Changes, Trends, and Public Demands was caused by the need to understand dramatic changes in the party system which occurred over the last years, and, in fact, led to the Maidan and partly were a result of its victory. The report analyses the last two stages of the evolution of...
