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Russia's Lavrov attends OSCE meeting in Malta in first visit to EU country since Ukraine invasion

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Russia’s Lavrov clashes with Blinken at OSCE meeting

Al Jazeera

Secretary of State Antony Blinken asserts Ukraine’s sovereign right to make choices about its future without interference from Moscow. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has clashed indirectly with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at an annual security meeting in Malta, accusing the West of risking escalation in the war in Ukraine. “After the Afghan disgrace, there was a need …

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5 months, 1 week ago

OSCE official jailed for ‘spying’ in Russian-held Ukraine

Al Jazeera

European security group slams sentencing of Vadym Golda for ‘reconnaissance activities’ used to direct missile strikes. The Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic sentenced Vadym Golda to 14 years in a penal colony on charges of gathering intelligence on industrial sites that was used to direct missile strikes in the region, said Russia’s prosecutor general on Friday, posting …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Russia poses as peacemaker, stepping up attacks on Ukraine’s east

Al Jazeera

Russia has sought to paint itself as a peacemaker in the war it started in Ukraine, calling NATO and Ukraine warmongers and storming out of the Organization for Security and Co-pperation in Europe. As he has often said before, he felt Ukraine’s allies were deliberately holding back support to not embarrass Russian President Vladimir Putin with a rapid defeat: “Everybody …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Lithuania defends banning Russian and Belarusian observers from monitoring its presidential election

The Independent

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9 months, 1 week ago

Explained: How the election in Russia works

Firstpost

Russia is holding its presidential election from 15-17 March, only to re-elect President Vladimir Putin for another six-year term. In 2008, Dmitry Medvedev ran for president and Putin served as prime minister before winning 63.6 per cent of the vote in the 2012 presidential election and 76.7 per cent in 2018. People, including supporters of Russian incumbent president and presidential …

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9 months, 4 weeks ago

Belarusians vote in a tightly controlled election as the opposition calls for its boycott

Associated Press

TALLINN, Estonia — Sunday’s tightly controlled parliamentary and local elections in Belarus are set to cement the hard-line rule of the country’s authoritarian leader, despite a prominent opposition leader’s call for a boycott. “Detentions, arrests and searches are taking place during the vote.” Speaking during Tuesday’s meeting with top Belarusian law enforcement officials, Lukashenko alleged without offering evidence that Western …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Poll observers say Azerbaijan presidential vote marred by irregularities

Al Jazeera

Ilham Aliyev wins expected landslide victory, but OSCE monitors say vote was ‘restrictive’ and ‘not competitive’. Election observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe have raised “serious questions” about the validity of Azerbaijan’s presidential election, which saw incumbent Ilham Aliyev secure a fifth term with more than 90 percent of the vote. “While six other candidates participated …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

OSCE laments Belarus’ refusal to allow its monitors to observe February’s parliamentary vote

Associated Press

TALLINN, Estonia — A top trans-Atlantic security and rights watchdog has criticized Belarus’ refusal to allow the group to observe its parliamentary vote, saying that it defies the country’s international obligations. Matteo Mecacci, the director of the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, said that Belarus’ refusal “will prevent the country’s citizens and institutions from benefiting from an …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Belarus refuses to invite OSCE observers to monitor this year’s parliamentary election

Associated Press

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarusian authorities on Monday said they will not invite observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to monitor the country’s parliamentary and local elections, scheduled for Feb. 25. This year’s election will take place amid continued repressions and as some 1,500 political prisoners remain behind bars, including leaders of opposition parties and renowned human …

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1 year ago

Serbia’s ruling populists say weekend elections were fair despite international criticism, protests

Associated Press

BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia’s ruling populists insisted on Tuesday that weekend snap elections were free and fair despite criticism from international observers who noted multiple irregularities during the vote in the Balkan nation that is a candidate for European Union membership. Some opposition politicians spent a night in the building after lodging formal complaints against what they say was “a …

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1 year ago

Russia’s foreign minister faces Western critics at security meeting and walks out after speech

Associated Press

SKOPJE, North Macedonia — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov faced Western critics while attending international security talks Thursday in Northern Macedonia, where he blamed “NATO’s reckless expansion to the East” for war returning to Europe. He blamed what he described as Western tolerance of the “ruling neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv” for the war that started with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine …

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1 year ago

Russian FM says he plans to attend OSCE meeting in North Macedonia

Associated Press

MOSCOW — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that he plans to travel to North Macedonia later this week to attend a conference, a trip that would mark his first visit to a NATO member country since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine. North Macedonia, which holds the group’s rotating chairmanship, last week invited Lavrov to an OSCE foreign ministers’ …

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1 year ago

NATO member N Macedonia to briefly lift flight ban in case Russia’s Lavrov wants to attend meeting

Associated Press

SKOPJE, North Macedonia — NATO member North Macedonia said Friday it would briefly lift a ban on flights from Russia next week, which would enable Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to attend an international conference in the country should he accept the invitation. It was not clear whether Lavrov would even accept the invitation which North Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Bujar …

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1 year, 4 months ago

A Third Term for Uzbekistan’s Mirziyoyev

The Diplomat

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev sailed into a third term – despite Uzbekistan’s long-standing but never-heeded two term limit – by capturing 87 percent of the vote on July 9. RFE/RL described the candidates not named Mirziyoyev succinctly as “a former education minister, a former high-ranking forestry official, and a career judge fresh from a term in the slavishly loyal Senate.” …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Full text: NATO Vilnius summit communique

Al Jazeera

NATO leaders are holding their annual summit as Ukraine looks to the security alliance for support in its attempt to push back invading Russian forces. Russia’s more assertive posture, novel military capabilities, and provocative activities, including near NATO borders, as well as its large-scale no-notice and snap exercises, continue to threaten the security of the Euro-Atlantic area. We are working …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Turkey slams election observers’ ‘lack of transparency’ comment

Al Jazeera

Ankara says remarks made in a report on Sunday’s polls by European observers are ‘politically charged and accusatory’. Turkey’s foreign ministry has slammed the “lack of transparency” statements made by an international observer mission monitoring Sunday’s elections in the country. “I regret to note that the election administration’s work was lacking in transparency, as well as the overwhelming bias of …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Neutral Austria under pressure to get tougher on Russia

Associated Press

VIENNA — Austria has come under heavy criticism for granting visas that will allow sanctioned Russian lawmakers to attend a Vienna meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter told reporters Friday that the Russian delegates “are not people who deserve to be able to travel to Western countries.” However, Carpenter added …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Neutral Austria under pressure to get tougher on Russia

The Independent

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2 years, 3 months ago

Russian separatists in Luhansk convict ex-OSCE staff of treason

Al Jazeera

The court of the Russia-backed Luhansk People’s Republic sentenced two former staff members of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to 13 years in prison. Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have sentenced two former Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe staff to 13 years in prison on treason charges. “Our colleagues remain OSCE staff members and had …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Online searches for ‘Ukrainian refugee porn’ and ‘Ukrainian rape’ surge 300% as Russian war rages

The Independent

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2 years, 6 months ago

Russia-Ukraine latest: Moscow able to fight war for another year

Al Jazeera

Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate believes that Russia can continue its war for another year, warning that Kyiv is significantly outgunned on the frontlines. “Therefore everything now depends on what weapons the Western partners give us.” 10 Jun 2022 - 16:06 GMT Obama hails Ukrainian people’s “heroic resistance” United States former President Barack Obama has said the human costs in Russia’s …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Latest Ukraine updates: Russia controls ‘most’ of Severodonetsk

Al Jazeera

Latest Ukraine news from May 31: Luhansk governor says Russian forces are all set to take over the eastern Ukrainian city after days of fighting. 31 May 2022 - 16:00 GMT Russia playing ‘hunger games’: Kuleba Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has accused Russia of deliberately blocking food exports and playing “hunger games with the world”. 31 May 2022 - …

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2 years, 6 months ago

OSCE could fulfill potential after Ukraine conflict

The Hindu

When Helga Maria Schmid spoke with DW in Vienna about the end of the OSCE's special monitoring mission to Ukraine, the words she chose were "very unfortunate" and "heartbreaking." Schmid, the secretary general of the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, had decided to evacuate international staff members and relocate local employees when Russia invaded Ukraine …

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Russia's Lavrov attends OSCE meeting in Malta in first visit to EU country since Ukraine invasion

Russia’s Lavrov clashes with Blinken at OSCE meeting

OSCE official jailed for ‘spying’ in Russian-held Ukraine

Russia poses as peacemaker, stepping up attacks on Ukraine’s east

Lithuania defends banning Russian and Belarusian observers from monitoring its presidential election

Explained: How the election in Russia works

Belarusians vote in a tightly controlled election as the opposition calls for its boycott

Poll observers say Azerbaijan presidential vote marred by irregularities

OSCE laments Belarus’ refusal to allow its monitors to observe February’s parliamentary vote

Belarus refuses to invite OSCE observers to monitor this year’s parliamentary election

Serbia’s ruling populists say weekend elections were fair despite international criticism, protests

Russia’s foreign minister faces Western critics at security meeting and walks out after speech

Russian FM says he plans to attend OSCE meeting in North Macedonia

NATO member N Macedonia to briefly lift flight ban in case Russia’s Lavrov wants to attend meeting

A Third Term for Uzbekistan’s Mirziyoyev

Full text: NATO Vilnius summit communique

Turkey slams election observers’ ‘lack of transparency’ comment

Neutral Austria under pressure to get tougher on Russia

Neutral Austria under pressure to get tougher on Russia

Russian separatists in Luhansk convict ex-OSCE staff of treason

Online searches for ‘Ukrainian refugee porn’ and ‘Ukrainian rape’ surge 300% as Russian war rages

Russia-Ukraine latest: Moscow able to fight war for another year

Latest Ukraine updates: Russia controls ‘most’ of Severodonetsk

OSCE could fulfill potential after Ukraine conflict