OSCE think tanks and academic network discusses role of Panel of Eminent Persons on European security
OSCE think tanks and academic network discusses role of Panel of Eminent Persons on European security OSCE Secretary General lamberto Zannier, deputy head of the OSCE Swiss Chairmanship Task Force Raphaël Nägeli, Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger and Sonja Stojanovic Gajic, Director of the Belgrade …read more Source:...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities facilitates regional co-operation on multilingual education in Central Asia
131331 OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities The office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) organized two events in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on 4 …read more Source:...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 9 December 2014
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). In the Donetsk and Luhansk regions the SMM witnessed only one incident involving the use of weapons. The SMM visited the site...
The meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Ukraine
On 24 November 2014, the meeting of the representatives of the Razumkov Centre with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt was held. The U.S. Embassy was also represented by Counsellor for Public Affairs, Education and Culture Mr Conrad Turner. At the meeting, the Razumkov Centre was...
Participation in the international seminar “Media in a political context: a means of control or propaganda tool?”
On 24 November 2014, Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes Oleksiy Melnyk presented the report “The Role of Propaganda in the Ukrainian Conflict” to the participants of the international seminar “Media in a Political Context: A Means of Control or a Propaganda Tool?” The event was held by Stockholm International...
Expert Discussion “Middle Class in Ukraine: Sociological Portrait”
On 20 November 2014, the Razumkov Centre, with the support of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, within the project “Middle Class in Ukraine: Life Values, Readiness to the Association, and Promoting Democratic Standards”, held an expert discussion “Middle Class in Ukraine: A Sociological Portrait”. The discussion was attended by...
Participation in the roundtable “Security Challenges: Ukraine, Europe, the World”
On 6 November 2014, at the Diplomatic Academy of the MFA of Ukraine, the roundtable “Security Challenges: Ukraine, Europe, the World” was held. The event was attended by prominent representatives of the diplomatic corps, the expert community, and a large student audience of the Academy. The Razumkov Centre was represented by Director of Military...
U.S. Torture Report Reverberates in Eastern Europe, Australia Might Send Coals to Kyiv
Plus, Macedonia’s EU Accession talks are put off, again, and Uzbekistan welcomes a Russian role in Central Asia. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Ukraine-NATO partnership ranges from the political to the technical issues
Further Ukraine’s co-operation with NATO will include military consultations, which experts say will become increasingly important because Ukrainian politicians have declared defence ministry reform as one of the new government’s main priorities, the Southeast European Times website writes. “The partnership has several aspects,...
Ukrainian seaports are incapable of accommodating enough coal from abroad
The root of the energy problem facing Ukraine is the lack of coal supplied across the country from the Donbass region, now largely controlled by separatists backed by Russia, said Volodymyr Omelchenko, Director of the Energy Programmes of the Razumkov Centre, the Los Angeles Times newspaper writes. “Since the armed conflict started in eastern...
