On February 23, 2020, VoxUkraine, jointly with Promote Ukraine (Brussels), held an open discussion on vaccination and the responsibility for it. Today, we find ourselves at the stage when ‘back to normal’ from the pandemic […]
05.03.2021 • Natalia Tolub
Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Ivan Korčok apologised for the Slovak Prime Minister's bad joke about the "promised Zakarpattia" in exchange for a Russian vaccine. "Today, I’ve talked to my […]
04.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 7 December, the Council of the European Union adopted a global human rights sanctions regime. The established legal framework provides for the EU travel ban and the freezing of funds applying to individuals and […]
04.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine strongly condemns the unfounded and politically motivated ruling of the Southern Military District Court in Rostov-on-Don (Russia) of 3 March 2021 to convict Ukrainian citizen Oleh Prykhodko on fabricated charges of “preparations for act […]
04.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) accepted the application lodged by 67-year-old Nina Panfilova from Shakhtarsk town, Donetsk region, who became homeless overnight. Her apartment and all her property were completely destroyed with a […]
03.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine welcomes the decision of the European Union to apply for the first time a new global human rights sanctions regime against four Russian officials over human rights violations […]
03.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
President of the European Council Charles Michel has arrived in Ukraine on an official visit as part of his tour to the Eastern Partnership countries. His plane landed at Kharkiv airport, from where the official left […]
02.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The issue of restoring the sovereignty of Ukraine and returning the territories of Crimea and Donbas temporarily occupied by Russia is as multi-vector as life itself. In addition to a need for the observance of […]
02.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) blocked the operation of a sock puppet farm with a capacity of more than 18,000 accounts, which worked on commission from curators from the aggressor state and some Ukrainian […]
02.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Fight against COVID-19 In Ukraine, the fight against COVID-19 officially began on 3 March 2020 when the first coronavirus case was confirmed in the Chernivtsi region. Initially, the authorities took quite decisive measures, in particular, […]
01.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Over the occupation of Crimea, Ukrainian human rights activists have recorded at least 370 cases of persecution of journalists on the peninsula, including 100 cases over the first month of the seizure. In fact, the […]
01.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Lublin Triangle initiative, which unites Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland, is very useful and brings Ukraine's European integration closer, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis said in an interview with Radio Liberty. "I […]
28.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (NSDC) has instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to propose a bill within two months that would identify Ukrainians with dual citizenship, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said following a NSDC meeting […]
27.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The loss of legitimacy is throwing the Russian and Belarusian dictators into each other's arms. This is an alarming circumstance for Ukraine. The 22 February meeting of Alexander Lukashenka and Vladimir Putin in Sochi took […]
26.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has issued a statement dedicated to the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the occupation of Crimea. "26 February has become a symbol of resistance to the occupation, […]
26.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
During a phone conversation, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda discussed steps to jointly oppose the completion of the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. […]
25.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Mass protests took place across Ukraine after the sentence was passed on civic activist Serhiy Sternenko. The Odesa court passed a guilty verdict in the case over abduction of a member of one of the […]
24.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Perhaps, the past six years have been the best period in the history of Ukraine-Japan relations. However, the bilateral cooperation could have been even better if there had not been the Japanese purposeful policy of […]
24.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The foreign ministers of the 27 member states of the European Union made a political decision to impose new sanctions against those responsible for the arrest of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Sanctions will be […]
23.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The health of Ukrainian political prisoners held in Crimea and Russia is a matter of particular concern to human rights defenders. These people are the most vulnerable category of Ukrainian nationals as they actually are […]
22.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak