Public forum in Kyiv on Friday to mark 15 years of OSCE project assistance to Ukraine
KYIV, 11 February 2015 – To mark 15 years since the Ukrainian Parliament’s ratification of a memorandum of understanding between the Government and the OSCE on creating a new form of co-operation between them, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine is organizing a public discussion on the priorities of its further project assistance...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 10 February 2015
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). Fighting surged ahead of diplomatic talks in Minsk. Multiple rockets struck Kramatorsk (95km north of Donetsk) with 7 killed...
Critical Ukraine Talks Open, EU Pushes New Energy Agenda
Plus, mixed Albanian-Serb court set for north Kosovo; Russian media watchdog slams Twitter’s frank talk. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
OSCE Special Representative for Transdniestrian settlement process on his first visit of 2015 to the region
CHISINAU, 11 February 2015 – The Special Representative of the Serbian OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian settlement process, Ambassador Radojko Bogojević, completed today three days of meetings in Chisinau and Tiraspol. This was his first visit of the year and under the 2015 Serbian Chairmanship of the OSCE. In Chisinau,...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine to hold news briefing in Kyiv tomorrow
KYIV, 11 February 2015 – The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) will hold its regular news briefing tomorrow in Kyiv. Alexander Hug, the Deputy Chief Monitor of the SMM, will talk about the recent Mission’s activities and the general security situation throughout Ukraine. Journalists are invited to attend the news briefing...
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and Chief Monitor Ertugrul Apakan visit Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine, 11 February 2015 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, will visit Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine on Wednesday and Thursday to meet government officials and will also visit displaced people affected by the ongoing...
Findings of the sociological study “Public Opinion: 2014 in Review”
The study was conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Sociological Service of the Razumkov Centre from 19 to 24 December 2014. 2,008 respondents aged over 18 in all the regions of Ukraine (except Crimea) were interviewed. Sampling error – 2.3%. The survey was conducted within the project of the Public Sociology...
A meeting with Deputy Head of the EU Advisory Mission
On 28 January 2015, a meeting of the representatives of the Razumkov Centre with Deputy Head of the EU Advisory Mission for Civilian Security Sector Reform Ukraine (EUAM Ukraine) Yuh Fantu. The Razumkov Centre was represented by Director General Anatoliy Rachok and Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes Oleksiy...
Ukraine: The War Must Go On?
As terrible as it sounds, Kyiv’s endless dysfunction is the Kremlin’s most powerful ally in the current crisis-a point that is glossed over in Western policy debates on sending lethal aid to Ukraine. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM): Shelling in Kramatorsk, 10 February 2015
This report is for media and the general public. On 10 February at 11:51hrs, the SMM heard a powerful explosion in Kramatorsk (95km north of Donetsk). From their position at Kramatorsk Boulevard #41, the SMM assessed that the sound of the explosion came from approximately 1.5 kilometres south-east, near Kramatorsk airport (where the Ukrainian...
