OSCE stuck in the East-West gap

At the start of the year Kazakhstan took over the chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). The weekly Kapital looks at what effect this may have on the organisation's development: "With exotic instruments and resplendent national garbs, the Kazakh concert in Vienna marking Kazakhstan's one-year OSCE chairmanship was more like an audition for the Eurovision Song Contest. Whether a successful chairmanship can nevertheless dispel doubts surrounding the country is predetermined by its weak record on human rights and democracy. This could cast a shadow over the image of the OSCE, which was originally conceived as a bridge between the West and the former USSR, and now seems to be stuck in the gap between the West and Russia."

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