Without troops withdrawal, it is too early to talk about conflict resolution in Donbas
Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sunhurovskyi in his comment to the news agency Ukrinform explained why the withdrawal of weapons from the contact line in Donbas does not mean final resolution of the conflict. In the long run, the withdrawal of weapons is more of an imitation. Speaking about the conflict resolution...
Russian Strikes Support Assad’s ‘Legitimate Authority’
Putin confirms Russian airstrikes in Syria aim to bolster Assad’s regime, but denies targeting non-IS opposition forces. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Lukashenka Wins Fifth Term
Belarusian president wins in another landslide, as ties with West improve. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia’s Syrian entanglement: Can the West sit back and watch?
For observers who are confined by the boundaries of conventional strategic sense, every day of Russia’s military intervention in Syria brings fresh surprises. Indiscriminate strikes against Turkey-backed and CIA-trained opposition groups (which could not possibly be mistaken for ISIS) were followed by deliberate violations of Turkey’s...
OSCE Representative congratulates Nobel Prize winning writer and journalist from Belarus
VIENNA, 9 October 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today congratulated Svetlana Alexievich for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. Alexievich, a Belarusian writer and journalist working primarily in the documentary prose genre, is the first journalist to win the award. “The brave voice of Alexievich,...
OSCE trains Ukrainian law enforcers to fight IT-facilitated human trafficking crimes
191091 Andrii Dziubenko The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine organized a specialized training course from 5 to 9 October 2015 in Kyiv for 20 police officers from Ukraine’s Interior Ministry on investigating and combating …read more Source:...
Youth from minority communities in Georgia increasingly interested in learning Georgian through multilingual education, OSCE HCNM-commissioned study concludes
Georgia: one State, many languages Young people from ethnic minority communities in Georgia are increasingly interested in learning the Georgian language as a means to improve their socio-economic opportunities, the “Research Study on Multilingual Education in Georgia” commissioned by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM)...
OSCE supports series of training seminars on election legislation for administrative and local court judges in Ukraine
190661 Andrii Dziubenko More than 200 administrative and local court judges from all over Ukraine participated at the OSCE-supported training seminars on review of election-related disputes, which held from 28 September to 9 October …read more Source:...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 7 October 2015
This report is for the media and general public. The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by the parties and security considerations*. The situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions was relatively calm, although the SMM heard several explosions....
Russia Dominates NATO Talks
Allies send more troops to the eastern border to create ‘more persistent presence.’ …read more Source: Transitions Online...
