Moscow caps OSCE observers, OSCE cancels mission: Russia’s Duma vote will go unwatched
Warsaw — The OSCE’s election observation office has cancelled its mission to Russia’s parliamentary elections next month, after Moscow imposed restrictions on…
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Tirana Ministerial: OSCE fills its empty chairs at last, and names a 2023 chair
Tirana — The OSCE closed its twenty-seventh Ministerial Council on Friday with the appointment it had been unable to make for months:…
Moscow Mechanism on Belarus: a 90-page catalogue of torture, and a demand for new elections
Vienna — An independent expert report commissioned under the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism has concluded that Belarus committed massive and systematic human rights…
OSCE observers on the US vote: ‘baseless allegations’ of fraud are harming public trust
Washington — The head of the international observation mission to the United States election has delivered an unusual rebuke to a sitting…
Karabakh in flames: Trump, Putin and Macron issue joint plea as fighting enters fifth day
Geneva — The presidents of the United States, Russia and France issued a rare joint statement on Thursday calling for an immediate…
A pandemic of censorship fears: OSCE media watchdog sounds alarm over Hungary’s emergency law
Vienna — The OSCE’s media freedom watchdog has warned that emergency powers adopted in Hungary to fight the coronavirus could be turned…