OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine to hold news briefing in Kyiv today
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine to hold news briefing in Kyiv today Alexander Hug, the Deputy Chief Monitor of the SMM, will talk about the process of the monitoring of withdrawal of heavy weapons in eastern Ukraine. Journalists are invited to attend the news briefing today, 21 February, at 19:00 (Kyiv time), at 26 Turhenevska Street....
Putin the Improviser
The Ukraine showdown is even scarier and more dangerous than most people think: President Putin is making it up as he goes along. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Spot report by the OSCE Observer Mission: Russian convoy of 15 vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point
This report is for the media and general public. SUMMARY On 20 February 2015 at 07:00hrs (Moscow time), a Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 15 vehicles were checked by the Russian border guard and customs services. All the vehicles crossed back into the Russian Federation (RF) at 16:05hrs on 20...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 19 February 2015
This report is for the 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 – noted a limited number of ceasefire violations in the Luhansk region and...
European MPs Protest Jailing of Two Men by Armenia’s Puppet Nagorno-Karabakh Regime
For two decades, the world has paid scant attention to the everyday injustices Armenia has perpetrated during its occupation and brutalization of Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding, occupied territory. Today, perhaps, that is changing, and a reckoning is coming. Armenia has illegally occupied twenty percent of Azerbaijan for...
Spain 1936-1939; Ukraine, 2014-?
This article will be published in the March 2 edition of The Weekly Standard.Last week’s Minsk agreement, by which France and Germany in effect codified the cession to Russia of Kiev’s sovereignty over southeastern Ukraine, has temporarily taken the issue of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine off the table and thus off the...
Groups Lay Out Serbian Media’s Plight, Privatizations Planned in Bosnia
Plus, currency and export woes pose problems for Moldova’s new government, and Croatia gears up for more oil and gas drilling. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Oligarchs after the Maidan: the old system in a ‘new’ Ukraine
2015-02-16Wojciech KonończukThere have been major changes in the balance of forces among the key Ukrainian oligarchs, representatives of big business with strong political influence, since the victory of the Maidan revolution. However, these changes have not undermined the oligarchic system per se. Over the past decade or so, the oligarchs have...
Caught Between the Ruble and Red Tape
Belarus’ sole traders are sinking as the currency slides and new customs regulations kick in. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
OSCE Secretary General addresses White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism
Communication and Media Relations Section The OSCE’s comprehensive approach to security, which embraces human rights and democracy, economics and environment as well as politico-military security, offers a powerful antidote to violent extremism, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier told high-level officials from around the world at the...
