Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe

BELGRADE - The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is the winner of "Kaiser-Otto" in 2015, Mayor of Magdeburg Lutz Trümper announced on Sunday.

The OSCE received this award for its contribution to stability in Europe and neighbouring regions, as stated in the announcement.

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev extended his quarter-century rule over the oil-rich, ex-Soviet republic with a crushing 97.7 percent of ballots in an election where opposition parties did not field a candidate, officials said April 27.

A long-awaited ceasefire seems to have taken hold at last in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday.

The Ukrainian military reported it suffered no combat casualties in the past 24 hours - for the first time in several weeks. Only one soldier had been injured.

The United States would violate a number of international agreements if it started supplying weapons to the Ukrainian military at the request of the government in Kiev, Russia's UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin said on Monday.

A further round of negotiations among the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France is set to take place in Minsk on Wednesday.

German government spokesperson Steffen Seibert said in a statement that the decision was made after an extensive conference call between the country representatives on Sunday, BBC reported.

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko was chairing an emergency security meeting Sunday to forge a response to a new offensive by pro-Russian rebels after rocket strikes on a vital government-held port killed 30 people.
      

Romania has taken over the annual chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe's [OSCE] Security Committee, to remain in charge from January 1 until December 31, 2015, following to be particularly committed to fighting terrorism, transnational organised crime, the illegal migration phenomenon in the OSCE range of influence, improving cyber security, combating human tr

Crash investigators were to begin reconstructing the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 shot down over eastern Ukraine in July, killing all 298 people on board, after wreckage arrived by truck at a Dutch air force hangar on Dec. 9.
   
Members of the national Safety Board will piece together the remains of the plane to determine exactly what brought down flight MH17.
   

OSCE chairmanship provides a chance and a challenge for Serbia

Andrey Kelin, Russian representative to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) denied all allegations that there are Russian troops in Ukraine.

According to RT.com, Kelin has given a firm response to the allegations, saying that “we have said that no Russian involvement has been spotted, there are no soldiers or equipment present.”