The Kirovske District Court found Crimean Tatar Medzhyt Abliamitov guilty of participating in the Noman Çelebicihan Voluntary Battalion under Article 208.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in illegal armed formation) and […]
24.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The opening of a Russian party representative office in the occupied areas of Donbas is more proof of the escalation on the part of the Russian Federation. "The Russian authorities continue to openly disregard the Minsk […]
23.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
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
Tokyo had a busy diplomatic schedule. Visits were made by the U.S. Secretary of State and the U.S. Secretary of Defence. Minister of Defence of Ukraine Andriy Taran also arrived in the capital of Japan, […]
22.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) found three caches belonging to members of illegal armed formations in the Luhansk region. In particular, damaging agents of the Smerch multiple rocket launcher and more than […]
22.03.2021 • 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
The Russian Federation proposes to change the form of organisation of the Normandy Four meetings, using the principle of rotation of heads. The proposal was made by Dmitry Kozak, the deputy head of the Russian […]
20.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
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
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
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
Recently, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov made a statement on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Russia's accession to the Council of Europe. However, Russia, which joined this international […]
15.03.2021 • 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
On 11 March, the armed formations of the Russian Federation again violated the ceasefire and fired aimed shots on positions of Ukrainian defenders near Novozvanivka in the area of responsibility of the operational and tactical […]
12.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Government of Ukraine approved external borrowing of up to EUR 116 million within the framework agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of the French Republic on the manufacture and technical support […]
11.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Russian special services conduct purposeful activity against Ukraine in the information sphere and have separate units that work exclusively to stir up the situation in Ukraine. “Against the backdrop of a hybrid war, the scale […]
10.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
While working on one of my projects, I reread the reports of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine and took note of how often (perhaps more often than with other missions) the Russian occupiers […]
09.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
If it is not possible to organise a meeting of the leaders of the Normandy format countries (Ukraine, Germany, France, Russia) on the settlement of the situation in Donbas, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky […]
09.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak