Crimea – One year after Russian annexation
Why the international community shouldn’t forget about Crimea …read more Source: European Policy...
Ukraine’s business and politics grew especially tight under Yanukovych
Bloodied by war and barely solvent, Ukraine is facing another threat from within: oligarchs with private security forces and steamroller business tactics inherited from decades of corruption, the Bloomberg writes. The symbiotic relationship between the country’s business and political elites grew especially tight under Viktor Yanukovych,...
Will the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine provoke Russia?
In the comment to the website Novoe Vremia, Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sunhurovskyi said that Western weapons will enable Ukraine to reduce the number of casualties among Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. Today there is an ongoing debate that the supply of Western lethal weapons to Ukraine could provoke Russia...
Democratorship: the ancient heart of Putin’s regime
by Lucio Caracciolo for Heartland: Eurasian Review of Geopolitics Russia cannot be a democracy since if it were, it would not exist. It is a multi-ethnic empire almost sixty times the size of Italy. Its population equals that of all Italians and Germans together, three-quarters of which concentrated in its European provinces and with immense and...
Moscow continues its aggressive policy
By Zaza Gachechiladze for The Messenger Friday, March 20 Moscow has just signed a treaty on alliance and partnership with the de-facto South Ossetia region. Internationally, this move has been assessed as a step taken to annex Georgian territories. The signing ceremony coincided with the anniversary of Crimea’s annexation and the...
VIDEO: In Donetsk’s empty football stadium
The BBC’s Tom Burridge visits the football club Shakhtar Donetsk’s stadium in Ukraine which is now empty. …read more Source:...
Iran and EU Leaders Issued Joint Statement on Iran Nuclear Talks
Negotiators in Switzerland announced a “tentative agreement” to limit Iran’s nuclear program and Federica Mogherini, European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, said EU sanctions against Iran will end. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
OSCE Special Representative promotes sustainable assistance to children without parental care in Eastern Europe
MINSK, 3 April 2015 – Preparing children to live independently after they leave state-run boarding schools is a key step in combating human trafficking in minors,” said on Friday OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova. “Teaching life skills is something that we have...
Practice of oppressing members of media in Belarus must change, OSCE Representative says
VIENNA, 3 April 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today reiterated her call on the Belarussian authorities to stop persecuting members of the media, following continued and repeated intimidations of journalists for doing their job. “The authorities have to stop imposing restrictive measures on freelance...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 2 April 2015
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. The SMM, based on its monitoring – which was restricted by third parties and by security considerations* – observed that fighting continued in areas around the Donetsk airport and...
