Parliamentary coailition will unite behind Ukraine’s future accession to the EU
In recent parliamentary election backing for billionaire President Petro Poroshenko’s party and the Popular Front of his Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk tops 40 percent, while the Regions Party of deposed leader Viktor Yanukovych wasn’t running. Poroshenko wants to build a coalition with other pro-European parties, the Bloomberg...
The People’s Front success gives Yatsenyuk a serious claim to stay on as premier
The People’s Front and Poroshenko’s bloc were neck-and-neck with 21.9 percent and 21.5 percent after almost 73 percent of ballots had been counted for party lists in recent parliamentary election in Ukraine, the Bloomberg reports. The showing for Yatsenyuk’s party gives him “a very serious claim” to stay on as premier, according...
The Cradle Will Fall
In Russia, parents of babies with developmental disabilities face pressure from both society and the medical establishment to abandon their children at birth. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
OSCE Special Representative on Gender Issues visits Tajikistan
DUSHANBE, 4 November 2014 – Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Gender Issues June Zeitlin paid a four-day country visit to Tajikistan from 1 to 4 November 2014. The focus of the visit was on implementation of gender equality policy and programmes, particularly its new Law on Prevention of Violence in the Family. The...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 2 November 2014
This report is for media and the general public. The provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum as well as the activities of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination remained the focus of SMM monitoring. Even though the SMM did not hear shelling in Donetsk city, the situation remained tense throughout the region. The SMM observed...
Apakan on Ukraine: “To Be Present Is Important”
On November 3rd, IPI’s Vienna office hosted Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, Chief Monitor of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Since April 14, 2014, Ambassador Apakan has led the approximately 300 international monitors from more than 40 OSCE participating states that are...
Ponta, Iohannis to Battle for Romanian Presidency, Ukraine’s Breakaway Regions Vote
Plus, EU officials reportedly pressure Kosovo journalist, and builders find Jewish gravestones in foundations of Soviet-era Belarusian homes. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
OSCE helps Ukrainian legal professionals to better protect human rights in times of crisis
KYIV, 3 November 2014– Ukrainian legal professionals attended the first in a series of training courses, organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, aimed to broaden their knowledge on international standards of human rights protection in crisis situations today in Kyiv. The event is part of a wider education effort, aiming to reach...
OSCE Centre conducts regional seminar on countering drug trafficking
KARAGANDA, Kazakhstan, 3 November 2014 – A four-day regional seminar for law enforcement officers on the detection of trafficking routes for illegal drugs and their precursors, including methods for detecting relevant contraband, began today in Karaganda. The event was co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana, the State Revenues Committee of the...
Naftogaz Is Ukraine’s Achilles’ Heel
Ukraine’s state-owned energy giant is a source of corruption that oligarchs and Russia can exploit. The EU should consider becoming a major stakeholder in the network. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
