Teleconference Ukraine: Elections Amid Ceasefire and Conflict
There is much riding on the early parliamentary elections in Ukraine on October 26. Ukrainians face an ongoing war despite the tenuous ceasefire in the Donbas region, and severe economic pressures. The desperate need for reform is still at the top of the agenda for Maidan activists who overthrew the Yanukovych regime in February, and for the...
Ukraine, Russia, and the International Order
Over the last twenty-five years, the ideal of an integrated Euro-Atlantic community including Russia has gradually faded, as new dividing lines seem to be hardening on the European continent. The Ukrainian crisis and conflict with Russia have effectively brought an end to the post-Cold War era; it remains an open question what will be the...
France: Stop extradition of Kazakhstani opposition activist at risk of torture
Headline Title: France: Stop extradition of Kazakhstani activist at risk of torture 24 …read more Source: Amnesty...
International election observers in Ukraine to hold press conference on Monday
KYIV, 24 October 2014 – The international observers monitoring the 26 October early parliamentary elections in Ukraine will present their preliminary post-election statement at a news conference on Monday, 27 October, in Kyiv. The international observation mission is a common endeavour involving the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and...
OSCE Border Management Staff College concludes its twelfth staff course
DUSHANBE, 24 October 2014 – A graduation ceremony for the 12th Border Management Staff Course took place today at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe. Twenty-four participants representing eight OSCE participating States (Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kyrgyzstan,...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 23 October 2014
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM continued focusing on the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. The situation remained volatile in Donetsk and Luhansk. In Kharkiv local authorities reported to the SMM that the number of registered IDPs had doubled since August. The SMM continued to receive...
OSCE supports discussions on Ukrainian civil society’s development, participation in state policy-making
KYIV, 24 October 2014 – The international conference “Civil Society and State: Dialogue and Partnership” will take place in Kyiv on 30-31 October 2014. The event is organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, in partnership with the country’s State Registration Service, the Ukrainian Parliament’s Commissioner...
When there is a real ceasefire, separatists will be responsible for their actions
The leaders of pro-Russian militants are not interested in maintaining ceasefire in Donbas because then they will have to be responsible for their actions. This opinion was expressed by Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk, informs the news agency Radio Liberty. “If for a...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 22 October 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. The situation in Luhansk and Donetsk remained tense. Police in Odessa told the SMM about discovered explosives and one RPG in one of the wagons of a passenger train coming from Luhansk. On 21...
The Sakharov Prize: Awarded to the Deserving Mukwege
The photo attached to this piece is of a man who has spent years treating women for brutal, organized, repeated, systematic rape. For his work, he has been beaten and shot at, his children held hostage, his life in constant danger. He works in a country that is in no meaningful sense a post-Westphalian state. The authorities are often indifferent...
