On New Year's Eve, the Ukrainian authorities returned home two women and seven children who had been held in refugee camps in Syria. According to the press service of the Office of the President, a […]
01.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
According to the Viasna Belarusian Human Rights Centre, at least 112 people – 18 women and 94 men – in Belarus celebrated the New Year being under administrative arrest. The total number of citizens against […]
01.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
An MEP group sent letters of solidarity to Ukrainian political prisoners in the Russian Federation from the occupied Crimea. They addressed the messages to Remza Bekirov, Osman Arifmemetov, Yevhen Karakashev and Serhiy Filatov. The Crimean […]
01.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 30 December, a law reinstating the powers of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) and the liability for inaccuracies in asset declarations came into force. The law restores the powers of the NACP, including […]
31.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
On Wednesday, 30 December, the Iranian authorities instructed the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development to pay $150,000 to each family of the Ukraine International Airlines plane crash victims who died when the aircraft was […]
30.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
258 citizens of Ukraine went missing in the territory of Donbas uncontrolled by the Ukrainian government. The Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denysova announced this. According to her, 251 Ukrainians are currently being held captive in ORDLO. This […]
30.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The investigation into the poisoning of Alexei Navalny does not go off the information "radars" of the media outlets, exacerbating the already difficult situation. The Kremlin is in a political knockdown after a terrible international scandal […]
30.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Oleksandr Shumkov, a former Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin, said in an interview with the BBC that he had been tortured in a Russian prison, including being subjected to electric shocks. According to him, […]
26.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Alexander Lukashenka has stated that Belarusian law enforcement officers have exposed a group of terrorists who "delivered tonnes of weapons" from the territory of Ukraine and was preparing terrorist attacks throughout Belarus. He spoke about […]
26.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ukrainian authorities plan to launch the Crimean platform at the 2021 summit in Kyiv. The Ukrainian foreign ministry head Dmytro Kuleba stated this in an interview. "Via sanctions strengthening we will restrict opportunities for […]
25.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Hackers launched a “large-scale cyberattack” on the website of the European Court of Human Rights after it published a ruling critical of Turkey. The tribunal said the attack followed its 22 December order for Turkey to […]
24.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv has ordered the State Bureau of Investigation to open proceedings under an article on the inaction of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, which resulted in the death of Ukrainian marine […]
23.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Russian Federation uses the COVID-19 pandemic to intensify the repressive policy in the temporarily occupied Crimea, in particular, the campaign against the Crimean Tatars. The first deputy minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Emine […]
20.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has scheduled a hearing in the case “Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russian Federation” for 15 September 2021, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine, Commissioner for ECHR Ivan Lishchyna […]
18.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Protests in Belarus have been going on for five months. Many people have been forced to seek political asylum in other countries, and Ukraine is no exception. However, the duration of stay for political refugees […]
18.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Most European countries have long suffered from a demographic crisis. Among them is Ukraine, which, according to the Countrymeters calculator, will lose 152,881 of its inhabitants this year alone. For many years, the low birth […]
17.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Following the resolution against the Russian-occupied Crimea, the Black and Azov Seas militarisation, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a new version of the "Human Rights Situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, […]
17.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
EU countries have adopted the third sanctions bundle against the regime of Alexander Lukashenka in Belarus. EU ambassadors unanimously approved visa and property bans for another 29 individuals and, for the first time, for several […]
17.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Iran has not properly investigated the crash of the Ukraine International Airlines aircraft that was shot down by the Iranian military near Tehran in January 2020. Many essential details of this tragedy are still unknown. […]
16.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Zdorovtsov family from Amvrosiyivka has been helping the Ukrainian army since the beginning of the armed aggression. They were not stopped by intimidation by local militants, broken windows, or threats of physical violence. However, […]
16.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
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