Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 17 March 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...
Leadership and management principles, models and theories discussed at OSCE Border Management Staff College
DUSHANBE, 18 March 2015 – Decision-making models of leadership and situational leadership theory were discussed at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe from 9-18 March 2015. Twenty-two current and future leaders from the border security and management agencies of Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of...
Concerns about Russia’s nuclear weapons modernization are overblown
As the Ukraine-Russia crisis deepened and West-Russia relations plunged to their lowest point since the Cold War, Moscow has rattled its nuclear saber. Russian strategic rocket forces have conducted an increased number of exercises, Bear bombers have probed the air defenses of NATO members, and Vladimir Putin has engaged in nuclear...
If the government loses public confidence, no reform will be effective
Director of Economic Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Vasyl Yurchyshyn gave his opinion on the activities of the parliamentary coalition and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for the website Replika. First of all, the society expect positive change that should occur after the implementation of the declared reforms. However, for some reason,...
German Foreign Minister Steinmeier at German peace research colloquium
Questions about the causes, dynamics of, and opportunities for the prevention and transformation of wars are highly topical. The fighting in Ukraine and the escalating violence in the Middle East are only a few of the current trouble spots. The three-day conference will cover multi-faceted conceptional questions, basic terms and empirical...
Caucasus Gas Pipeline Breaks Ground; U.S., Europe Condemn South Ossetia’s New Deal With Moscow
Plus, Kyrgyzstani leader’s secretive trip to Moldova sets the rumor mill turning, and health experts warn that TB remains a major killer in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukrainian Institute’s in London 50-page Director’s Report now available on-line
DOWNLOAD HERE Director’s Report,PDF FROM THE DIRECTOR I am delighted to present this report of the Ukrainian Institute in London. The events of 2014 have been exceptionally turbulent and agonising for all Ukrainians across the globe, ever since the Euromaidan Revolution of Human Dignity kicked off in November 2013, followed by Russian...
Terrorists are trying to maintain tensions in Odesa and Kharkiv
Ukraine is bracing itself for a wave of terror attacks after a blast in Kharkiv ripped through a EuroMaidan memorial march on Feb. 22, killing four people, including two teenage boys, and wounding nine. The latest in a series of recent bombings, it was the first one to cause fatalities, the KyivPost newspaper reports. “There have been a number of...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine to hold news briefing in Kyiv tomorrow
Alexander Hug, the Deputy Chief Monitor of the SMM, will talk about the recent Mission’s activities and the general security situation throughout Ukraine. Journalists are invited to attend the news briefing tomorrow, 19 March, at 13:00 (Kyiv time), at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre (2 Khreshchatyk street, Ukrainian house). Live online...
Obama’s Asia policy flounders
Thanks to some bold rhetoric and high-profile visits over the past years, Barack Obama’s Asia policy has by and large been seen as a bright spot in his foreign policy. Compared to the disastrous failure to anticipate or contain the Islamic State, the flatfooted response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, his Hamlet-like...
