News and press releases

VIENNA, 19 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, expressed concern today over legislative steps towards re-criminalizing defamation in Ukraine...

Uniform interpretation of the election legislation is the focus of two training seminars for Ukraine’s administrative court judges that started on 18 September 2012 in Odessa with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...

KYIV, 12 September 2012 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today formally opened an election observation mission for the 28 October 2012 parliamentary elections in Ukraine. The mission’s deployment follows an invitation from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry...

OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier started his official visit to Ukraine on 10 September 2012 with a meeting with Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko to discuss the preparations for the Ukrainian Chairmanship of the OSCE in 2013...

Integration of environmental education into the school curriculum in Ukraine is the focus of a three-day train-the-trainers course that started in Kyiv on 5 September 2012 with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...

KYIV, 4 September 2012 – Paintings by victims of domestic violence are on show at an exhibition that was opened in Kyiv today by Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...

Thirty law school students selected through an open competition are taking part in a summer school supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) that started on 29 July 2012 in Zakarpattia region...