Łódź Ministerial: Lavrov speaks to walkouts, Estonia’s chairmanship bid is vetoed, the OSCE endures
Łódź — The OSCE’s twenty-ninth Ministerial Council ended in Łódź on 2 December with Sergey Lavrov addressing a half-emptied hall, no consensus…
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‘Political theatre’: OSCE condemns 13-year sentences for its own staff in occupied Luhansk
Vienna — The OSCE has condemned the sentencing of two of its former Ukrainian staff members to thirteen years in prison by…
In Birmingham, OSCE parliamentarians call for a special tribunal for the crime of aggression
Birmingham — The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly closed its annual session in Birmingham this week with a declaration supporting the creation of a…
Lavrov says British and Moroccan men sentenced to death have committed crimes on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on June 10, 2022 that two Britons and a Moroccan man sentenced to death on the…
How many people left Russia because of the war?
Will they never return? Can this be considered another wave of emigration? Demographers Mikhail Denisenko and Yulia Florinskaya explain for the site…
OSCE experts find ‘clear patterns’ of war crimes in Ukraine in first Moscow Mechanism report
Vienna — A panel of independent experts established under the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism has found clear patterns of violations of international humanitarian…
Russia vetoes its own observers: OSCE’s Ukraine monitoring mission closes after eight years
Vienna — The OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine formally ended on 31 March after Russia refused to join consensus on extending…
The OSCE’s eyes on Ukraine go dark: monitors evacuate as Russia invades
Kyiv — The OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, the unarmed observation force that has been the international community’s eyes on the…
Stockholm Ministerial: Lavrov and Blinken meet as 100,000 Russian troops mass near Ukraine
Stockholm — Foreign ministers of the OSCE’s 57 participating states gathered in Stockholm this week with one subject overshadowing everything else: the…
At the frozen edge of the EU, the OSCE looks for a role in the Belarus-Poland border crisis
Vienna — Thousands of migrants remain trapped in freezing conditions on the Belarusian-Polish border this weekend, as the OSCE comes under pressure…