News and press releases

A four-day OSCE-supported training seminar for Kazakhstan’s police officers on document integrity and advanced methods to detect document forgery began on 24 November 2014 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan...

The OSCE Border Management Staff College’s Second Cross-Border Research Conference, this year focusing on border security in the era of globalization and the challenges of migration, concluded on 21 November 2014 with a field trip to the Tajik-Afghan border...

On 16 November 2014 at 07:25 (Moscow time), a Russian convoy arrived at the Russian Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 20 vehicles were inspected by the Russian border guard and customs services and then headed into Ukraine. All the vehicles crossed back into the Russian Federation (RF) at 15:12 on the same day. This was the sixth Russian convoy crossing through the Donetsk BCP since the arrival of the Observer Mission (OM) to the Russian BCPs.

DUSHANBE, 14 November 2014 – The graduation ceremony of a two-week Border Police Border Management Awareness Course for Afghan and Tajik border officers took place yesterday at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe...

DUSHANBE, 14 November 2014 –The Tajik and Kyrgyz border guards today completed a two-week OSCE Patrol Management and Analysis training course...

On 31 October 2014 starting at 07:40 (Moscow time), a third Russian convoy bound to Luhansk arrived to the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 42 vehicles, including 30 cargo trucks and 12 support vehicles, were inspected by both the Russian and Ukrainian border guard and customs services. By 18:00 on the same day, all the vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation.

DUSHANBE, 31 October 2014 – A week-long train-the-trainer course for the representatives of the national border-related training institutions and graduates was completed today at the OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC)...