OSCE Special Monitoring Mission Chief Monitor to lead tributes to MH 17
KYIV, 16 July – OSCE Special Monitoring Mission Chief Monitor Ertugrul Apakan will lead tomorrow a minute of silence in honour of the victims of flight MH17, downed over Ukraine one year ago. “Tomorrow we commemorate one year since flight MH17 was downed in eastern Ukraine. This tragedy ended the lives of 298 people in the most horrific manner,...
High Commissioner on National Minorities welcomes agreement in Skopje and highlights the situation in Crimea in her statement to the OSCE Permanent Council
Report by the High Commissioner on National Minorities, Ms. Astrid Thors In her statement to the Permanent Council on 16 July, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Astrid Thors provided information on her institution’s activities since November 2014 highlighting the political developments in Skopje and the situation on the...
Europe yesterday, Beijing today: Russia’s bad romance
Looking at the global chessboard, one can’t help but be puzzled. Only yesterday, Russia was dating Europe; today, the Kremlin is trying to persuade the world (and itself?) that it has fallen in love with Beijing. Witness Russia’s hosting last week of the dual summit of the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization—a clear signal...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 14 July
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 14 July The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of Measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements.” Its monitoring was restricted by third parties and security considerations*. The SMM observed that the number ceasefire...
OSCE/ODIHR workshop in Armenia stresses the need to conduct proper consultation in policy and lawmaking processes
OSCE/ODIHR workshop in Armenia highlights the importance of transparent policy-making and legislative planning OSCE/ODIHR workshop in Armenia stresses the need to conduct proper impact assessment in policy and law making processes Transparency and public participation in the law-making process was the focus of a …read more Source:...
Radio Free Acton: John Horvat on Order; Samuel Gregg on Chaos
In this edition of Radio Free Acton, we speak with John Horvat, author of Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society, about what’s gone wrong with our economy and culture and how to fix it. John’s book was featured this year at Acton University (you can pick up a copy for yourself at the link above), and...
There is no sign that some massive military campaign in Donbas has begun
Pro-Russian rebels mounted one of the heaviest attacks on government troops since a February peace accord, Ukraine said, as the two sides blamed each other for a surge in fighting in the country’s east, the Bloomberg writes. “There’s no sign that some massive military campaign has begun,” Yuriy Yakymenko, an analyst at the Razumkov...
OSCE Strengthens Capacity of Ukrainian NGOs in Trial Monitoring
KYIV, 15 July 2015 – OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) jointly with the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) completed a two-day training for Ukrainian non-governmental organizations on best practices in trial monitoring. The training is aimed at Ukrainian NGOs activists who already have background and experience...
OSCE/ODIHR workshop focuses on international and Ukrainian political party regulation reform
172636 Measures to make political parties in Ukraine and in the wider OSCE region more transparent and accountable were the focus of an expert workshop jointly organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the partners. They included the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), the Ukrainian...
The main criterion for performance of the military–industrial complex should not be profit but meeting the needs of the front
The Ukrainian defence sector have achieved some success but its performance is traditionally overstated. This opinion was expressed by Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk, informs the news agency Radio Liberty. “Production growth by 36 times is dramatic but what is behind...
