Participation in the meeting of the Strategic Discussion Club
On 11 February 2015, in Mykolayiv, a meeting of the Strategic Discussion Club was held within the project of the Institute of World Policy Strategic Discussion Club in the Regions of Ukraine, which is implemented with support of the Government of Norway. The aim of the project is to conduct public discussions of the tools for ensuring security...
Participation in the visit of the Ukrainian delegation to Germany
On 26-30 January 2015, Leading Expert of Political and Legal Programmes of the Razumkov Centre V. Zamiatin participated in the visit of the delegation of Ukrainian politicians (which included people’s deputies from the factions of Blok Petra Poroshenka, Narodnyi Front, and Batkivshchyna of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine) to the Federative...
Pros and cons of the new Minsk agreement
Deputy Director General, Director of Political and Legal Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Yuriy Yakymenko told the website Forum about the possible consequences of the new Minsk agreement. The documents signed after 16-hour talks in Minsk have both pros and cons. What is good is that there is a set of measures that are unconditional and contain...
Round table Prospects for Ukraine– Russia relations: conceptual approaches and practical steps
On 5 February 2015, the Razumkov Centre jointly with the representative office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Ukraine held the round table Prospects for Ukraine-Russia Relations: Conceptual Approaches and Practical Steps. It was attended by people’s deputies of Ukraine, representatives of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine,...
Peace and security in Europe are a joint responsibility, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Dačić tells United States Helsinki Commission
WASHINGTON D.C., 26 February 2015 – “Serbia’s OSCE Chairmanship coincides with the worst crisis of European security since the end of the Cold War,” OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić, told the U.S. Helsinki Commission at a hearing on 26 February in Washington, D.C. “The...
Azerbaijan: OSCE PA’s Santos decries continuing threats to civil society and journalists, renews request for visits
COPENHAGEN, 26 February 2015 – The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today expressed deep concern about continuing threats to civil society and journalists in Azerbaijan and renewed her request to visit detained rights defenders. “The...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 25 February 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 security considerations – noted fighting in some areas. The Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination...
Restrictive measures toward Russian journalists reporting from Ukraine excessive, OSCE Representative says
VIENNA, 26 February 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said recent measures limiting some Russian journalists to fulfil their professional activities in Ukraine are excessive. On 12 February, the Supreme Rada decided to strip accreditation of some 100 Russian media outlets at all Ukrainian public...
Russian Paratroopers Train Near Baltic Borders, Central Asians Nabbed in U.S. Terror Plot
Plus, Mongolia frees foreign businessmen in a tax-dodge case and Macedonia’s students kill a new measure on university exams. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russian gas for the Donbas: the games being played with Kyiv and Brussels
2015-02-25Szymon KardaśThe suspension by Naftohaz of gas supplies to the Donbas has been treated by Moscow as a pretext to unfreeze the Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
