News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 100/2021 issued on 1 May 2021
Publishing date: 1 May 2021
Summary In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 95 ceasefire violations, including 47 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 82 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 66 ceasefire violations, including ten explosions. In the previous reporting
Calls between OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Linde and Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
Publishing date: 1 May 2021
STOCKHOLM, 1 May 2021 — OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Ann Linde, held phone conversations with Ruslan Kazakbaev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan and Sirojiddin Muhriddin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan. CiO Linde raised the latest developments on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border and expressed concern about the escalation of violence. She expressed her condolences for the loss of lives on both sides and concern for those injured.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 99/2021 issued on 30 April 2021
Publishing date: 30 April 2021
Summary In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 82 ceasefire violations, including 27 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 15 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 36 ceasefire violations, including six explosions. In the previous reporting
OSCE Media Freedom Representative meets with representatives of the Belarusian Association of Journalists and editors of independent media
Publishing date: 30 April 2021
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), Teresa Ribeiro, met online today with representatives of the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) and editors of several independent media outlets to discuss the current state of freedom of expression and media freedom in Belarus.
OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan supports seminars on countering cybercrimes in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 April 2021
Two back-to-back online training seminars on criminal law and criminological characteristics of computer crimes, methodology for detecting and investigating criminal offenses committed using information and communication technologies (ICT) concluded on 30 April 2021 in Nur-Sultan.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 98/2021 issued on 29 April 2021
Publishing date: 29 April 2021
Summary In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 15 ceasefire violations, all explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 217 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 22 ceasefire violations, including eight explosions. In the previous reporting period,
OSCE supports the first national cyberdrill in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 29 April 2021
On 28 and 29 April 2021, the first national cyber drill exercise “Digital Kyrgyzstan 2021” was held in Bishkek. The event was organized by the Coordination Center for Cybersecurity of the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic (CCCS SCNS) with support of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek and the International Telecommunication Union.