This month marks the fifth anniversary of the killing in Russian police custody of 37-year-old anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who exposed a $230 million fraud perpetrated...
The European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, has just announced that it will present its brand new report – The Film...
Opinion by Jim Gibbons World Forum for Democracy – 3-5 November, 2014: Getting young people engaged in politics is difficult but not impossible. They just need...
Senior French MEP Jean-Luc Schaffhauser has bitterly condemned the EU for failing to back Sunday's (2 November) controversial elections in Ukraine's two breakaway regions. Speaking in...
"I consider today's (2 November) ‘presidential and parliamentary elections’ in Donetsk and Luhansk ‘People's Republics’ a new obstacle on the path towards peace in Ukraine. The...
The elections held on Sunday (2 November) by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine were “largely fair and transparent”, according to a team of international observers. Presidential...
The EU requested today (31 October) consultations with Russia in respect of import duties for paper products, refrigerators and palm oil. The EU takes this first...