Doubts Cloud Ukraine Cease-Fire, Azerbaijani Dissident Holed Up in Swiss Embassy
Plus, another Romanian politician ends up in handcuffs and Uzbekistan gives a popular commenter early prison release. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Weekly update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 10:00 (Moscow time), 11 February 2015
This report is for media and the general public. SUMMARY Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both BCPs. Overall cross-border traffic flows slightly increased at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The OM continued to observe a number of persons in military-style clothing crossing the...
Merkel Alone
The German chancellor has done everything possible, excluding using force, to end the war in eastern Ukraine. Now, she needs wide support to make a new peace accord stick. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Why Vladimir Putin can not be trusted – Radio interview with Andy Hunder, Ukrainian Institute, London
Andy Hunder, The Globalist, Monocle 24, February 12, 2015, 6AM, London Click here to listen to Radio interview with the Ukrainian Institutes’s director, Andy Hunder, on the morning of Thursday, 12 February, 2015, minutes before a peace deal was announced in Minsk, explaining why Vladimir Putin can not be trusted The Globalist, Monocle...
What Would It Take to Restore a Peace Order in Europe?
Western leaders’ recent attempts to assure a diplomatic resolution of the Ukraine crisis may come to no avail. Is it possible to restore the peaceful, European status quo amidst such rapidly growing East-West animosity? Eurasia Outlook asked Carnegie’s experts to share their thoughts. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for...
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 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...
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,...
