Ukraine Crisis Update: February 27, 2015
Download the PDF In the week following the Ukrainian surrender of Debaltseve, a strategic rail junction between the separatist strongholds of Donetsk and Luhansk, the conflict has exhibited a pattern of hostilities reminiscent of the frequently violated ceasefire period from September 2014 to January 2015. Tags Ukraine Project UkrainePromote...
Ukraine Expels Russian Journalists, EU Urges Balkan Clampdown on Asylum Seekers
Plus, Kyrgyzstan’s leader blasts Belarus for sheltering ‘villainous’ Bakiev brothers, and the Caspian Sea states pledge to save the endangered sturgeon. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kennan Cable No.5: Euromaidan Revisited: Causes of Regime Change in Ukraine One Year On
A year has passed since mass protests on the Maidan in Ukraine’s capital Kiev culminated in bloodshed and president Viktor Yanukovych unexpectedly fled to Russia. Since then, Ukraine has plunged into a bloody civil conflict and a war by proxy with Russia. Relations between Russia and the West are continuing to worsen, and Europe has come to...
What Remains After Maidan?
Five writers from Ukraine discuss the legacy of the movement that was supposed to change their country. First in a series. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Violence Marks Ukraine’s Maidan Anniversary, Orban Suffers Setback in Regional Vote
Plus, Azerbaijan moves to shore up its currency and the maker of Russia’s AK-47 plans to diversify. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Razumkov Centre Newsletter №12
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 №12 …read more Source: Razumkov Centre...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes U.S. rules on net neutrality that support a free and open Internet
VIENNA, 27 February 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today welcomed new rules adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to protect an open Internet. “This is a landmark decision to guarantee a free and open Internet with the free flow of information as one of its fundamental characteristics,...
Journalists in Slovenia should not face criminal charges for their work, OSCE Representative says
VIENNA, 27 February 2015 – Slovenian authorities should amend provisions in the Criminal Code allowing for the prosecution of journalists, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said today, following questioning of two journalists by the state public prosecutor in a defamation case. “Criminal prosecution of journalists for...
ODIHR attended Savchenko hearing in Moscow
WARSAW, 27 February 2015 – Two representatives from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights attended a court hearing on 25 February related to the case of Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian Air Force pilot and Member of Parliament charged with complicity in the murder of two Russian journalists near Luhansk, Ukraine, in June...
On foreign policy measures to force Russia to make peace
This refers to increasing the role of the UN Security Council in this process, which is now limited to Russia’s right of veto against any draft resolution of the SC aimed against it. It is proposed not to initiate any reform of the UN (it is a long and controversial process) but to use existing opportunities stipulated in the UN Charter....
