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...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 17 November 2014
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM continued to focus its observation on the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. In Donetsk the SMM observed an armoured truck carrying an antiaircraft machine. On 16 November the SMM met the commander of the irregular armed group of the Cossack-controlled...
Weak Ruble Exchange Rate Represents Political Bargaining Challenge
The financial troubles of the ruble represent the most striking and dangerous strategic challenge facing the Russian state since the conflict in Ukraine began. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and Austrian Defence Minister Klug visit training site of OSCE SMM Monitors
Vienna, 17 November 2014 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and Austrian Defence Minister Gerald Klug will visit the Austrian armed forces Foreign Mission Base in Goetzendorf on Friday 21 November, to meet internationally recruited monitors who are receiving training before joining the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM)....
