Participation in activities of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Brussels and Berlin
On 3-5 June 2015, Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy MELNYK took part in several events organised by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Brussels and Berlin. Ukrainian experts met with a group of Members of the European Parliament, representatives of the Foreign Relations Service...
Participation in the committee hearings on “Prospects for increasing extraction of domestic oil and gas for improving energy security of Ukraine”
On 9 June 2015, the Leading Expert of Energy Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Viktor Lohatskyi took part in a hearing at the Parliamentary Committee on the Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety, dedicated to the prospects and ways of increasing production of domestic oil and gas to enhance the energy security of Ukraine. The...
Participation in the meeting of the Сabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
On 9 June 2015, the Director of Energy Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Volodymyr Omelchenko attended a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine chaired by Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine V. Voshchevskyi, dedicated to the draft Law of Ukraine “On the National Committee Performing State Regulation in the Area of Energy and Utilities”...
The Razumkov Centre Newsletter №19
This issue contains articles and interviews of the Razumkov Centre’s experts, dealing with most topical issues in Ukraine’s current affairs. In particular — domestic politics, security sector, the situation in the Ukrainian economy and energy sector. Read the Razumkov Centre Newsletter №19 …read more Source: Razumkov...
A Flawed Report on Azerbaijan Nevertheless Tells Important Truths
A sign of the increasing uselessness of international bodies is that they have trouble getting the obvious right. Earlier this week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) received a report on Azerbaijan’s democratic development. While the report itself was uneven (more on this below), it nevertheless almost got the most...
Saudi Arabia’s Unlikely Flirtation with Russia and Israel
Saudi Arabia’s recent courtship with Russia and Israel should be understood as a failure of the United States government to assure Saudi Arabia of their security. For much of the last 35 years Saudi Arabia has looked to the United States as a beacon of security and a source of political clout. This relationship was born out of, and in...
Lone Russian Activists Battle To Prove Kremlin Troops In Ukraine
June 25, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro participated in Security Forum in Budva
166651 Iva Scepanovic Serbia’s 2015 OSCE Chairmanship, the OSCE’s Conflict Prevention Centre and the OSCE Missions to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to Montenegro participated in the fifth 2BS Security Forum on “The Future Perspectives …read more Source:...
Bosnia Gets a Historic Wartime Rape Ruling, Romania’s Embattled Leader Takes Sick
Plus, Kyrgyzstan’s ‘gay propaganda’ bill clears another hurdle and Central Europeans mull the workings of Russia’s energy giants. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
OSCE Special Representative stresses importance of victim identification in combating human trafficking
LISBON, 25 June 2015 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova, today underscored the need to improve victim identification at an international seminar on key challenges in the fight against modern-day slavery. “There is a large gap between the estimated number of...
