At 04:00 today, Russian mercenaries from the Federal Security Service (FSB) raided seven houses of Crimean Tatars in the occupied Crimea. Six people have been detained. They are charged with participation in the Hizb ut-Tahrir, […]
17.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On Tuesday, 16 February, Belarusian security forces conducted mass searches in the offices of journalists and human rights activists. The European Union condemned such actions of the Belarusian law enforcement officers, spokesperson for the European […]
17.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution appealing to the governments and parliaments of foreign states and international organisations to condemn the temporary occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of […]
16.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 15 February, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba took part in a conference initiated by Canada, at which 52 states approved the Declaration Against Arbitrary Detention in State-to-State Relations. Canada’s initiative brings […]
16.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Plans of unlimited terror revealed in the scandalous audio recording by BYPOL [the BYPOL initiative was founded by opposition-minded former law enforcement officers of Belarus] include an intention to set up a separate labour camp […]
15.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
At least 3.4 million people in eastern Ukraine are in need of sustained humanitarian assistance due to the war. More than half of those in need are women, and 40 percent are elderly, Under-Secretary-General of […]
12.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Relations between the West and Russia are entering a new stage, and the chief European diplomat was the first to experience this firsthand On 9 February, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy […]
10.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In recent years, many cases of pressure, persecution, and attacks on human rights defenders and civil society activists have been recorded in Ukraine. Most of the high-profile cases are kept in sight solely due to […]
10.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The EU should make the sanctions mechanism more effective in order to better protect democracy, in particular regarding Russia and Belarus. That was a message from a video conference on “Defending democracy in Russia and […]
05.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The European side should conduct a comprehensive dialogue in relations with Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said during a discussion to mark the launch of the Atlantic Council's Europe Centre. "In these very sensitive regions […]
05.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Rallies in Russia have continued. They again have the same distinctive feature – ubiquity. The Open Media Group calculated the approximate number of protesters in Russian cities. The largest rallies took place in St. Petersburg, […]
03.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) will study in detail the possible link between former first deputy chief of the SBU Dmytro Neskoromny, who is suspected of organising the contract murder of Andriy Naumov, and […]
02.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines under the global COVAX Facility will arrive in Ukraine in two weeks. Ukraine will receive 117,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, Deputy Minister of Health for European Integration Ihor […]
01.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
A record number of more than 5,000 people, including more than 80 journalists, were detained during rallies in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Russia on Sunday. The police used force against the protesters, […]
01.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On Saturday, 30 January, six Ukrainian sailors of the Stevia cargo vessel were released from pirate captivity in Nigeria, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky informed on his Instagram page. "Six Ukrainian sailors – crew members […]
31.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
G7 Ambassadors gave advice to Ukraine on how to get out of the constitutional crisis On 27 October 2020, an event took place that clearly testified to the existence of a fundamental problem in the […]
29.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
First Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Emine Dzheppar took part in a virtual high-level United Nations Peacebuilding Fund Replenishment Conference. The conference, convened by the UN Secretary-General, was co-chaired by the President of […]
27.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The G7 Ambassadors presented a roadmap for judicial and anti-corruption reforms in Ukraine. The proposals also concern changes in the work of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU), whose headline-making decisions, according to the Ambassadors, […]
26.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
At the opening session in Strasbourg on Monday, 25 January, members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) supported the initiative of the Ukrainian delegation to challenge the powers of representatives of […]
25.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba has stated that Ukraine supports calls for the release of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as he is an enemy of Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We have taken […]
25.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak