Russia-West Rhetoric Ratchets Up, Georgian Convicted of Mid-2000s Mutiny
Plus, the golden arches will rise in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan’s leader says his country must be a partner for Russia. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine’s Sleeping Beauty
Kharkiv seemed to go to sleep in the 1970s and has yet to awaken. When it finally does, what will it become? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Only sanctions against Gazprom will significantly affect the Russian economy
Restrictive measures of the U.S. and the EU will become a real threat to the Russian economy only when sanctions against Gazprom are imposed. This opinion was expressed by Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk, informs the news agency TSN. The expert also noted that the next...
‘Nothing is True and Everything is Possible’
A new book presents a Russia with no rules and no certainty in tomorrow. From openDemocracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Frozen Donbas?
Ukraine is in the process of forming a new government. President Putin has a say in the development of this process by threatening an invasion. And now he can be almost certain that the West will not go to war with Russia over Ukraine. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Spot report by OSCE Observer Mission, 16 Nov 2014: Russian convoy of 20 vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned via Donetsk Border Crossing Point
SUMMARY On 16 November 2014 at 07:25 (Moscow time), a Russian convoy arrived at the Russian Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 20 vehicles were inspected by the Russian border guard and customs services and then headed into Ukraine. All the vehicles crossed back into the Russian Federation (RF) at 15:12 on the same day. This was the...
Russia, Ukraine, and the Visegrad: Time to Get Real
The crisis in Ukraine has betrayed fault lines in the Visegrad Group. Unless Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic change course, the “golden age” of Central Europe may come to an end. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Statement by OSCE PA human rights chair on the five-year anniversary of the death of Sergei Magnitsky
COPENHAGEN, 14 November 2014 – On the eve of the 5th anniversary of the death of Sergei Magnistky, the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights committee, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), has called for an end to impunity in Russia and greater attention to the persistent link between corruption and human rights transgressions...
OSCE introduces best practices of human trafficking prosecution to Ukrainian law enforcers
126747 Andrii Dziubenko …read more Source:...
Hungary PM Dismisses U.S. Memo on Corruption, Russia’s Arctic Waters a Nuclear Time Bomb
Plus, Lithuania wraps up its probe into the 1991 crackdown and Moldova attacks corruption in preschools. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
