Ukraine has to take all steps to declare that Russia is an occupier of Donbas
Six months after the latest Minsk agreement, to replace the first one that Russia violated as well, more than 1,000 others have been killed since Russia and Ukraine signed the “peace” deal, the Kyiv Post writes. Co-director of Foreign Affairs and Inernational Security Programmes at the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk said Ukraine hasn’t yet...
The Russian public’s ignorance allows Putin’s policies to flourish
Russia’s direct involvement in prosecuting its war against Ukraine is proven, as far as most in the West are concerned. But the Russian public is still oblivious to what’s going on, accepting official denials, more than a year after the fighting began, the Kyiv Post reports. Director of Military programmes at the Razumkov Centre...
Muzhenko lost the moral right to talk about military situation in Donbas
The chief of Ukraine’s Army General Staff has left many baffled after declaring that the destroyed village of Shyrokyne “has no military value” – after soldiers held positions there for months that they said were key to defending the strategic city of Mariupol, the Kyiv Post writes. Co-director of Foreign Affairs and International Security...
Ukraine Must Privatize Failing State-Owned Enterprises Quickly
Privatization has generated controversy in every post-communist country. Ministers of privatization are usually accused of heinous crimes, regardless of how impeccably they have performed their jobs. Yet privatization is vital for all such nations, not least for Ukraine. The goal must be to limit state-owned enterprises so that the private sector...
Kyiv Ex-Security Chief Held Over 2014 Maidan Killings
As Ukraine comes to terms with yesterday’s deadly clash in Kyiv, prosecutors are slowly closing in on the officials behind the savage repressions in 2014. From the Kharkhiv Human Rights Protection Group. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
OSCE Representative and Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights condemn sentencing of journalist Khadija Ismayilova in Azerbaijan
STRASBOURG/VIENNA, 1 September 2015 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, and the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, today condemned the sentencing of Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova. “The charges brought against Ismayilova, and the trial, are unjust; they constitute yet...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 31 August 2015
This report is for the media and the 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 number of ceasefire violations observed remained at a similar level compared with the previous day in...
OSCE PA human rights Chair calls for release of Azerbaijan’s Ismayilova
COPENHAGEN, 1 September 2015 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Chair, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today called for the immediate release of Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who was sentenced earlier on 1 September to 7 ½ years in prison. “Ms. Ismayilova has earned several...
Ukraine’s New Party of Power
The merger of President Poroshenko’s party with the UDAR party of Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko is another step in the consolidation of power by the Ukrainian leader. Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front may be the next in line for absorption. But recent Ukrainian history shows that these big united parties have all ended in...
Ismayilova, Fierce Critic of Aliev Regime, Jailed
Plus, Tajikistan bans Islamist party and a blacklisted Russian singer is given permission for EU entry on medical grounds. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
