On 22 March, a new EU human rights sanctions regime took effect. China, Russia, Myanmar and Libya will be the first countries to face new sanctions. These will be personal blocking restrictions: ban on entry […]
23.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Attempted annexation of the Crimea by Russian Federation since 2014 has been condemned in a series of international acts, including UN GA resolutions 68/262, 75/192, 75/29 and others, resolutions of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, of […]
22.03.2021 • Natalia Tolub
We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in our condemnation of Russia’s […]
19.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 17 March, the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations held an event dedicated to the situation in the temporarily occupied Crimea. The event pursued a propagandist objective: to spread false […]
18.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In 2021, the citizens of Ukraine may lose about 10,000 land plots in the territory of Crimea. The one-year term, which the Russian occupation authorities gave to "foreigners" for alienation, expires in March. Human rights […]
17.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Viktor Medvedchuk, an MP from the Opposition Platform – For Life party and father of Vladimir Putin's godchild, appealed to the Supreme Court of Ukraine to challenge the presidential decree imposing sanctions on him. “On […]
17.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Minister Sandra Kalniete, Member of the European Parliament Dear Sandra, I am deeply touched by your appeal in support of the Crimean Tatar people and the territorial integrity of Ukraine. In the conditions of the […]
16.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
To: Refat Chubarov, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People My dear friend Refat, We met in Riga 33 years ago, during the establishment of the People’s Front and the Singing Revolution. You stood […]
16.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The threats of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and future members of the Crimean Platform are "political bullying" and yet another manifestation of the ongoing marginalisation of Russian foreign policy. The Kremlin continues to use […]
16.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has opened 16,643 criminal proceedings over treason and terrorism since 2014, Chief of SBU Ivan Bakanov announced after the National Security and Defence Council meeting. "Any crime against statehood […]
15.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Servant of the People party initiated the creation of a temporary commission of inquiry (TCI) in the Verkhovna Rada to investigate the possible involvement of senior Ukrainian officials in the leak of information about […]
14.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba called on the Russian Federation to provide the representatives of international organisations with the access to the territory of the occupied Crimea. In particular, the minister mentioned […]
13.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Almost 40 states have already agreed to take part in the inaugural summit of the Crimean Platform, which will take place on 24 August 2021, on the thirtieth anniversary of Ukraine's independence. A relevant announcement […]
08.03.2021 • 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 armed conflicts in the post-Soviet space may have different causes and different durations but almost always they share the same “depth of freezing”. In Transnistria, fighting ceased in 1992. In Abkhazia, South Ossetia or […]
03.03.2021 • 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
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 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 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
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