Fighting Rages Despite Ukraine Truce, Romania Deploys Soft Power in Moldova
Plus, a jailed Azerbaijani journalist faces new charges and Serbia honors U.S. academic Noam Chomsky on Statehood Day. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Europe has already realised that the actions of Russia in Donbas threaten the continental security
On Radio Liberty, Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk spoke about how the rhetoric of political leaders of the West on the Ukrainian-Russian crisis and the war in Donbas had changed. – One can lose count of how many the so-called “humanitarian convoys” Russia sent to Donbas,...
Ukrainian Crisis and Its Limited Impact on Turkish Russian Relations
Turkey and Russia have a deeply “compartmentalized” relationship. A disagreement on one regional issue-Ukraine, Georgia or even Syria-will not necessarily derail their bilateral relations. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Deputy Chief Monitor Alexander Hug to visit eastern Ukraine (Kramatorsk-Soledar-Debaltseve)
KYIV, 15 February 2015 – On 16-17 February the Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, Alexander Hug, will visit eastern Ukraine. He will meet the SMM team working in Kramatorsk, conduct meetings with the Joint Center for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC) and other interlocutors, and assess the security...
Slovak FM Lajčák: Ability to Listen Is Key to Effective Multilateralism
Sharing his views on topics ranging from the crisis in Ukraine and the role of women in peace processes to the changing role of the UN, Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčák of Slovakia said that the key ingredient to a successful multilateralism is “the ability to listen to each other, the kind of listening when you understand even if you might...
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) to hold a news briefing in Kyiv
KYIV, 15 February 2015 – The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) will hold a news briefing today in Kyiv. Alexander Hug, the Deputy Chief Monitor of the SMM, will talk about situation on the ground and Mission’s activities. Journalists are invited to attend the news briefing today, 15 February, at 15:00 hrs (Kyiv time), at the...
Statement by the Trilateral Contact Group on consultations held on 14 February 2015
Kyiv, 14 February 2015 – Following the recent summit meeting in the Normandy Format in Minsk, the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), consisting of senior representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, today, 14 February 2015, held a round of consultations in the form of a video-conference with...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), as of 18:00hrs, 13 February
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the work of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). The SMM assessed damage from shelling in Donetsk and Luhansk cities. On 13 February, the SMM visited the residential area of...
Russian students to Ukrainian students: “We respect your choice, we condemn the war”
On the day that concluded the peace talks in Minsk, students from Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, recorded their own message to the students of Ukraine. This video, produced in collaboration with Open Russia, is a response to the message from Ukrainian students to Russian students posted at the end of January 2015. …read more Source:...
Capitulation in Minsk
Last week I tried to imagine Vladimir Putin’s endgame in Ukraine: exactly what objectives was he after in waging war on his neighbor? Then, on Monday, as peace talks in Minsk were bruited about, I wrote that, given a confluence of powerful ideological, domestic political and geostrategic imperatives, only a complete fulfillment of the...
