Getting colder: Cooperating with Russia in the Arctic
Is it possible to isolate the well-established mode of Arctic cooperation from the disruptive impact of the Ukraine crisis? Many stake-holders in cooperative projects with Russia keep insisting on an affirmative answer and seek to bracket out tensions emanating from such obscure locations as Debaltsevo or Mariupol. The European Union (EU), which...
Wiretapping of Macedonian journalists unacceptable, OSCE Representative says, calls for swift investigation
VIENNA, 27 February 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today urged a swift investigation of the wiretapping of Macedonian journalists. “Eavesdropping and surveillance of journalists is unacceptable. This only further weakens the already endangered media freedom environment in the country,” Mijatović said. According...
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...
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...
