Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 8 October 2014
This report is for media and the general public. SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, focusing on the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol/Memorandum. In Kyiv representatives of the Central Election Commission addressed some of the challenges that IDPs could face during the upcoming...
Kanerva highlights OSCE PA’s Helsinki +40 Project, meets Serbian FM at seminar
COPENHAGEN, 9 October 2014 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) underscored the vital contribution of the PA to the OSCE’s reform efforts on the 40th anniversary of its founding document at a seminar today in Helsinki. Kanerva also met with Serbian Foreign Minister and 2015 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ivica...
Russia does not control the conflict in Donbas but affects the level of its escalation
Compliance with the Minsk agreements will depend on the will of the Russian leadership. Russia continues to deny participation of its military officers in the operations in Eastern Ukraine, informs the news agency BBC. Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk notes that now it is...
The Razumkov Centre Newsletter №4 (11 September 2014)
Since the last issue of the Razumkov Centre Newsletter, a lot has happened. Unfortunately, the war has become the main topic today – Russia by using regular armed forces and heavy weapons resorted to an open aggression in the mainland Ukraine. The escalation of military action and its new scale resulted in significant casualties – both among the...
The risk of the conflict spreading beyond Donbas is constant
Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk commented to the newspaper Den whether there is a real risk of destabilisation in other regions of Ukraine. There is a risk of the conflict spreading beyond Donbas. It increases or reduces from time to time. However, this danger is...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 6 October 2014
This report is for media and the general public. Focusing on the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum, the SMM continued monitoring the situation in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, still noting that violence is continuing in a number of places. A representative of the Kharkiv Regional Employment Centre told the SMM in Kharkiv that from 1 May to 6...
Crimea: Enforced Disappearances
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email At least five people have been forcibly disappeared in Crimea since May 2014, including two on September 27. (Berlin) – At least five people have been forcibly disappeared in Crimea since May 2014, including two on September 27, Human Rights Watch said today.read more …read more Source: Human Rights...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supports development of manual on gender-sensitive and non-discriminatory media reporting
125147 Andrii Dziubenko …read more Source:...
High Commissioner on National Minorities addresses OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Autumn Meeting on Ukraine crisis
Statement to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly by Astrid Thors, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Language and identity in Ukraine …read more Source:...
Although elections in Bulgaria were well administered, lack of campaign substance and allegations of vote buying continue to harm public confidence, international observers say
SOFIA, 6 October 2014 – Although Bulgaria’s early parliamentary elections on 5 October were well administered technically and fundamental freedoms were respected, allegations from all sides of vote buying and selling and other election irregularities, as well as a campaign that lacked substance continued to negatively affect public...
