News and press releases

With the goal of strengthening the capacities of the Parliamentary Committee for Gender Equality and their oversight role, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro supported two thematic sessions of the Committee that took place on 21 and 24 November 2014 in Podgorica...

The OSCE Mission supported the NGO centre for development of non–governmental organisations (CRNVO) in the development of 2013 the monitoring report on good governance in local self-government, involving 21 municipalities in Montenegro, which was presented on 27 November 2014 in Podgorica.

CHISINAU, 1 December 2014 – The international observers monitoring the 30 November parliamentary elections in Moldova will present their preliminary post-election statement at a press conference on Monday, 1 December 2014, in Chisinau...

On 30 November 2014 at 09:42 hrs (Moscow time), a Russian convoy consisting of 43 vehicles arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point. The vehicles were checked by the Russian border guard and customs services. On the same day at 21:16 hrs, all vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation. This was the seventh Russian convoy crossing through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point since the arrival of the Observer Mission at the Russian Border Crossing Points...

The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. The SMM monitored the first hearing of a case concerning 15 people accused of participating in the clashes in Odesa on 2 May...

The SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, focusing on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. The SMM recorded numerous shelling instances across Donbas. The deputy rector of Donetsk National University in Vinnytsya told the SMM that the university had been re-located from Donetsk...

Representatives of four Ukrainian civil society organisations had a chance to refine their social business ideas, intended to support their anti-trafficking activities, at a three-day intensive training workshop in Kyiv that ended on Thursday, 27 November 2014. The event organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine in co-operation with the country’s Ministry of Social Policy gathered civil society activists from Kyiv, Lviv, Vinnytsya and Zhytomyr regions...