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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 13/2021 issued on 19 January 2021
Publishing date: 19 January 2021
Summary The SMM recorded 18 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous 24 hours, it recorded 38 ceasefire violations in the region. The Mission recorded one ceasefire violation in Luhansk region. In the previous 24 hours, it recorded eight ceasefire violations in the region. The SMM
Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 19 January 2021
Publishing date: 19 January 2021
Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall number of border crossings by persons decreased at both BCPs compared to the previous week.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 12/2021 issued on 18 January 2021
Publishing date: 18 January 2021
Summary Between the evenings of 15 and 17 January, the SMM recorded 83 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 184 ceasefire violations in the region. Between the evenings of 15 and 17 January, the Mission recorded eight ceasefire violations in Luhansk
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media meets with Portuguese Ambassador
Publishing date: 18 January 2021
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM) Teresa Ribeiro met today with Ambassador Jorge Lobo de Mesquita to discuss the situation of media freedom in Portugal.
OSCE PA human rights leaders decry detention of Alexey Navalny
Publishing date: 18 January 2021
COPENHAGEN, 18 January 2021 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights leaders today decried the detention of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny. In response to his arrest Sunday at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, the officers of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Chair Kyriakos Hadjiyianni (MP, Cyprus), Vice-Chair Michael Georg Link (MP, Germany), and Rapporteur Kari Henriksen (MP, Norway) issued the following joint statement:
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 11/2021 issued on 16 January 2021
Publishing date: 16 January 2021
Summary The SMM recorded 184 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 49 ceasefire violations in the region. The Mission recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it also recorded no ceasefire violations in the
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 10/2021 issued on 15 January 2021
Publishing date: 15 January 2021
Summary The SMM recorded 49 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 47 ceasefire violations in the region. The Mission recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 11 ceasefire violations in the