News and press releases

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 28 and 29 February, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Between the evenings of 29 February and 1 March, the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and

VIENNA, 2 March 2020 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, published today a legal analysis of the Draft Law of Ukraine “On Media”. This draft law was recently registered in the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament)...

VIENNA, 1 March 2020 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, condemned today’s detention of the Editor-in-Chief of Sputnik Turkey and three other Sputnik journalists working in Turkey.

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The SMM saw damage to residential houses in Zolote-5/Mykhailivka, Luhansk region. The SMM continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska and

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The Mission continued to monitor the disengagement area near Stanytsia Luhanska, saw mines and unexploded ordnance inside the disengagement area near Zolote, and

VIENNA, 28 February 2020 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, called today on the Ukrainian authorities to urgently find an effective solution to lift the blocking of the bank accounts of the public broadcasting company of Ukraine, UA:PBC.

A one-day training course for judges and prosecutors from across Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on addressing the trafficking in human beings and related crimes was held on 28 February 2020 in Banjaluka. The training was organized by the OSCE Mission to BiH in co-operation with entity judicial and prosecutorial training centres (JPTC)...