High Commissioner on National Minorities highlights access to education, situation in Crimea in her statement to OSCE Permanent Council
126955 Statement by Astrid Thors, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors highlighted access to higher education by national minorities and human rights abuses in Crimea in …read more Source:...
Round Table “NATO-Ukraine Partnership: Current State and Prospects”
On November 20, 2014, Razumkov Centre in cooperation with NATO Liaison Office in Ukraine conducted a Round Table: “NATO-UKRAINE PARTNERSHIP: CURRENT STATE AND PROSPECTS”. Participants of the meeting discussed the following issues: – Ukraine’s National Security in the current environment: immediate priorities and strategic...
Central Asia plays important role as a bridge between Asia and Europe, says OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in regional visit
BERN, 22 November 2014 – Central Asia plays an important role as a bridge between Asia and Europe, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter said as he concluded a four-day visit to the Central Asian republics of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, from 19 to 22 November 2014....
OSCE helps Ukrainian law enforcement educational institutions to improve teaching of cybercrime investigation
Andrii Dziubenko Twenty teachers from educational institutions of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies enhanced their knowledge and skills in the area of investigating ICT-related crimes, during a five-day intensive train-the-trainer course that ends on 21 November 2014, in Kyiv. The training course was organizedby the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in...
Media briefing by OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine on Saturday in Severodonetsk
KYIV, 21 November 2014 – The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine will hold a media briefing in Severodonetsk tomorrow, Saturday, 22 November 2014, at 12:30 Kiev time, at the Hotel Mir (fourth floor), Lisichanskaya St., 1. Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, Chief Monitor of the SMM, and Michael Bociurkiw, Mission Spokesperson, will...
Post-Cease-Fire Death Count Nears 1,000 in Ukraine, Armenians Mull Russia’s Possible Role in …
Plus, Kyrgyzstan tightens the screws on bride-kidnappers and Baku blocks a journalist from going to Washington. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Lukashenka Crawls Out of the Doghouse
The Belarusian strongman’s stock has risen as his countrymen look nervously on the turmoil in Ukraine. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kosovo Parties Break Deadlock, Russian Scholar Sues Estonia for Entry Ban
Plus, Kazakhstani ex-premier held in graft probe and universities flee rebel-held areas of Ukraine. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Post-Soviet Confidence Games
It is starting to look like a pattern: After painstaking talks, the parties in the Ukraine conflict come to an agreement – only to have it fall apart or fail to be fully implemented. And confidence-building efforts aimed at resolving other post-Soviet conflicts do not offer much room for hope. …read more Source: Project...
Sanctions will affect Russia’s policy when they reach the “pain threshold”
Sanctions against Russia as the aggressor country should be intensified in order to reach the “pain threshold” of the Russian leadership. This opinion was expressed by Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sungurovskyi, informs the website Obozrievatiel. “The main goal is to reach the ”pain threshold“, beyond which Russia...
