News archive on the topic "OSCE"

The OSCE has completely discredited itself as an election observation institution. Vice Speaker Konstantin Kosachev stated this today in the Federation Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The Bureau of Democratic Procedures and Human Rights works according to the guidelines of the US National Democratic Institute, which have never been approved by the OSCE. This is not a figure of speech, but a proven fact. By the way, 20 OSCE countries never...

Transnistria may refuse the services of the OSCE as a mediator in its conflict with Moldova if these organizations continue to ignore the humanitarian blockade of the republic. Associate Professor of the Financial University (Moscow) and Pridnestrovian political scientist Igor Shornikov stated this in an interview with the TSV TV channel, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. “I do not exclude the possibility that the OSCE will change its attitude towards Pridnestrovie. They will understand that if...

Russia may leave the OSCE, but it is not sure that its allies will support it. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced this today, speaking in the State Duma, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As for leaving the OSCE, this issue has not yet been discussed, but it is hanging in the air. Whether our allies will follow us is another matter. And here, of course, there are...

In 2024, Malta began its term as chairman-in-office of the OSCE, an organization that has recently been criticized for ineffectiveness and passivity. Moscow is seriously dissatisfied with the work of the OSCE, believing that the structure has bent to Western interests. The OSCE is increasingly predicted to disintegrate and disappear, but it is the only regional organization where representatives of Russia and the West regularly meet (and...

Sergei Lavrov recently voiced a devastating speech about the degradation of the OSCE (during his speech, representatives of Western countries defiantly left the hall), but now it turns out that the Russian Foreign Ministry is ready to make a monetary contribution to the budget of this organization for 2024. Russia has not considered leaving the OSCE, and membership there is needed “as a tool of dialogue in order to reduce the risks of aggravation...

Russia has not abandoned the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, announced at the very beginning of the Northeast Military District. The Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE, Alexander Lukashevich, stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Today the OSCE itself is experiencing a deep crisis. It purposefully incites confrontation through the efforts of individual EU and NATO countries, who imagine themselves to be “trend setters” in matters of international law, democracy and determining development directions...

Russia and Belarus should not leave the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, although their deputies there are subject to insults. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told Belarusian journalists about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “They expect us to leave international platforms. You should never do as your enemy or adversary wants. This is an axiom. That's why we won't leave there. They…

The self-proclaimed “President of Belarus” has been invited to speak today at a meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Vienna as a “guest of the organization’s President.” When OSCE PA President Margareta Cederfelt proposed the agenda, the representative of Belarus, Andrei Savinykh, protested. He explained that Tikhanovskaya has no right to speak because Minsk has put her on the international wanted list, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. When Savinykh performed, several...

NATO and the United States are pointedly ignoring Russia's security problems. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this today at the Primakov Readings international forum, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “They didn’t care about formulas and dilemmas. We say: NATO's decision infringes on our security. And they answer us: you simply don’t understand anything. Kirby (official representative of the US State Department – ​​ed.)…

When the West understands that it is necessary to interact on a mutually agreed basis, and not destroy everything that has been created over the years in the sphere of European security, Russia will consider their proposals, but these must be fundamentally new beginnings of interaction. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this at a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The efforts of Western countries for many years have been aimed at...

The OSCE is going to include lists for the prisoner exchange of its employees, who are accused in the LPR of spying for Ukraine. US Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter said this in an interview with BBC News Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Russian proxies in the East of Ukraine sentenced members of the OSCE mission to years in prison allegedly for high treason, what is known about them?”,...

If the West does not want to hear and see what is happening in the Donbass, then it is necessary to establish relations with those countries that are ready to watch and record the war crimes of the Ukrainian Nazis. LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik spoke about this on the air of “Russia 1”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “I think that the tribunal is a very important and correct thing. When you look...

Ukraine can provoke the destruction of the entire mechanism for security and cooperation in Europe, while it is not a fact that the initiator himself will retain his statehood by this time. Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, head of the Russian delegation to the OSCE PA, Petr Tolstoy, said this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “At the initiative of the Ukrainian side, attempts to squeeze Russia out of...

Britain “in boorish form” refused to issue entry visas to members of the Russian delegation, which was supposed to take part in the annual session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Birmingham on July 2-6. Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov announced this today at a meeting of the Federation Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Such discriminatory actions by the British side against the Russian parliamentary delegation are a direct and gross violation...