News and press releases

The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region between the evenings of 20 and 21 October compared with the previous reporting period and more between the evenings of 21 and 22 October compared with the previous 24 hours. In Luhansk region, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations between the evenings of 20 and 21 October compared with the previous reporting period and fewer between the evenings of 21 and 22 October compared with the previous 24 hours. The Mission followed up on reports of civilian casualties in Yenakiieve and Donetsk city’s Kyivskyi district. The SMM saw damage to civilian properties in residential areas in Dokuchaievsk and Kruta Hora. The SMM continued monitoring all three disengagement areas; it recorded ceasefire violations and visited impact sites inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area. The SMM’s access remained restricted in all three areas and elsewhere, including in Siedove, a settlement close to the border with the Russian Federation, and in a compound of a heavy weapons holding area in an area outside of government control. The Mission observed weapons in violation of withdrawal lines on both sides of the contact line. It facilitated and monitored repairs and maintenance to essential infrastructure near Vesela Hora. The SMM visited two border areas not under government control...

PALERMO, Italy, 23 October 2017 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir condemned the attack today on Tatyana Felgenhauer, Deputy Editor and presenter at Echo Moskvy radio station.

PALERMO, 23 October 2017 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir is concerned about the recent amendment to the Law on the Organization and Functioning of the AGERPRES National News Agency, which was passed on 11 October 2017 by the Senate of Romania. Today, he wrote to the Foreign Minister of Romania, Teodor Melescanu, to this effect.

An OSCE-organized workshop on National Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment (NRA) started today in Tashkent.

Legal experts from across the country joined an OSCE-supported public debate in Skopje on 20 October 2017 to comment on the draft amendments to the law on anti-discrimination.

An international roundtable discussion on modern technologies for domestic solid waste management and its investment potential was organized on 23 October 2017 by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan together with Uzbekistan’s parliament, the Oliy Majlis, and the Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan.

Twenty-five officers from the Tajik Border Troops, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Customs Service and the Drug Control Agency completed a one-week workshop on working with the media on 20 October 2017 in Dushanbe. The workshop was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe.