News and press releases

CHISINAU, 21 December 2016 – A three-day advanced training course on challenges to combat banking fraud and financial disruption, and greater understand the role of crypto currencies, concluded today in Chisinau for representatives of financial intelligence agencies in charge of combating money laundering from Central Asia, Moldova, Ukraine and Western Balkans. The course was organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)...

KYIV, 21 December 2016 – The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) will hold its regular news briefing on Thursday, 22 December in Kyiv.

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 increased at both BCPs...

A group of 17 Tajik women politicians, national gender experts and civil society activists visited Serbia to network and exchange experiences with their counterparts during a visit from 12 to 16 December 2016. The study visit was jointly organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and the OSCE Mission to Serbia...

The SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions compared with the period between the evenings of 18 and 19 December. The SMM observed damage from fighting on 18 December, and followed up on reports of shelling and civilian casualties. The SMM continued monitoring the three disengagement areas in Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske, and its access was again restricted.* The Mission facilitated and monitored repairs to essential infrastructure in Horlivka, Zolote, Orikhove and Krasnyi Lyman. It continued to observe long queues at entry-exit checkpoints along the contact line.

VIENNA, 20 December 2016 – Today, the OSCE participating States convened in a special session of the Permanent Council in Vienna and adopted by consensus a declaration on the deadly terrorist attack against the Russian Ambassador to Turkey that was perpetrated in Ankara on 19 December.

DOMODEDOVO, Russian Federation, 20 December 2016- Eight Afghan law enforcement trainers completed an OSCE-organized train-the-trainers course at a Russian training facility near Moscow today, focusing on combating illicit drug trafficking and drug-related crimes...