OSCE Secretary General stresses importance of co-operation with Kyrgyzstan during Bishkek visit
BISHKEK, 27 August 2015 – Strengthening the current OSCE engagement with Kyrgyzstan and discussing future co-operation was the focus of a two-day visit to Bishkek by OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier which concluded today. Zannier met President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambaev, Prime Minister Temir Sariev, Foreign Minister Erlan Abdyldaev as...
ODIHR Director expresses concern about continued detention and sentencing of foreign nationals in the Russian Federation
WARSAW, 27 August 2015 – Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Michael Georg Link today expressed his concern about the conviction and sentencing of three foreign nationals and continued detention of a number of Ukrainian nationals in the Russian Federation. On 25 August 2015, Ukrainian film director...
Secretaries General of OSCE PA, NATO PA, PACE meet for consultations
COPENHAGEN, 27 August 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Secretary General Spencer Oliver hosted his counterpart from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA), David Hobbs, and his counterpart from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Wojciech Sawicki, on 26 August for the latest in regular...
Russia: Scenes From a Trial
Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko stand convicted of terrorism in Russia. Their supporters say the trial of the Ukrainian patriots was a farce. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Moving to the Far Right in Hungary
Challenged by the growing popularity of the country’s far-right party, Jobbik, the Hungarian government is radicalising its agenda in order to win back disgruntled voters. April 12th 2015 is was an unneventful day in most countries; certainly not for Hungary. In local elections held in the town of Tapolca, the candidate for the Movement for...
Weaponizing Migrants
Europeans ought to be demanding Uncle Sam’s head on a silver platter, and those of their own leaders on pikes. Thanks to 25 years of lunatic US foreign policy initiatives and relentless military aggressions, the steady drip of illegal immigration into Europe from Africa and the Middle East has become a crisis of refugees. Not only has the...
Election 2015: Where is the debate on defence and security?
It would be a great leap forward if, in the coming federal election, there was a separate debate on national defence and security. The denizens of debate negotiation and management at the networks and political parties may not have the freedom or courage to make it so but it would be of immense value nonetheless. While there is usually a passing...
Russia Inadvertently Posts Its Casualties In Ukraine: 2,000 Deaths, 3,200 Disabled
Image credit: ThinkstockAnalysis and Commentaryvia ForbesRussian president Vladimir Putin has decreed that all Russian casualties “in peacetime” be a state secret. In addition to criminal charges arising from divulging state secrets, families risk losing pensions and lump-sum payments if they reveal that their sons were killed in Ukraine....
OSCE facilitates dialogue between judges and advocates on human rights protection in Ukraine
Andrii Dziubenko A summer school, which gathered 30 Ukrainian judges and advocates, focused on enhancement of their co-operation, skills and knowledge in protection of human rights in line with national laws and international principles, organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator, was held from 25 to 26 August 2015 in Lviv. Prominent national and...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 19:30 (Kyiv time), 24 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*. Ceasefire violations were recorded in numerous locations without a significant increase in its number. The...
