Being a neighbour of Belarus today is almost as dangerous as being a neighbour of Russia. The death of the Head of the Belarusian House in Ukraine, Vitaly Shishov, in Kyiv startled many. Vitaly was […]
10.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in November 1991, the area that extends from central Europe to Central Asia has been commonly referred to as the “post-Soviet space.” The label has always been problematic, […]
09.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Granting a motion filed by the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol, the court put a lien on 13 aircraft of the Russian air carrier that were used […]
09.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ukrainian side has submitted to the Venice Commission a draft law on the state policy of the transition period for Crimea and Donbas, according to Yuna Potiomkina, advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for […]
08.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 5 August, Ukraine commemorated the victims of the Great Terror of 1937-1938, one of the largest crimes committed by the Soviet authorities against humanity. The number of Ukraine’s victims affected by these massive Stalinist repressions […]
06.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The militarisation of Russia and Kremlin-favoured military-patriotic upbringing bear fruit. However, the consequences are very far from those desirable. Instead of love for the homeland, teenagers are instilled only with aggressive moods and illusions of all-permissiveness, […]
04.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Director of NGO Belarusian House in Ukraine, Belarusian citizen Vitaly Shishov, was found hanged in one of Kyiv's parks near his place of residence. According to the Kyiv police, Vitaly's mobile phone and personal belongings were […]
04.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv green-lighted the investigation in absentia against ex-president Viktor Yanukovych over the 2014 murders of Maidan protesters. As the Prosecutor General’s Office informs, investigations will be conducted into the case over the Maidan shootings, namely […]
02.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Providers in Russia and Crimea blocked access to the Crimean Human Rights Group’s website. At least six providers in different localities of the peninsula deny access to it. According to Russian activists, the website has […]
02.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol served eight military commissars, who have been directly organising and conducting illegal conscription campaigns in various districts of the occupied Crimea since 2015, with notices […]
30.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Online safety is an extremely pressing issue of the present-day world. After all, it is difficult to imagine our lives without a digital environment. However, society gets a lot of problems along with information from […]
28.07.2021 • Natalia Tolub
The Viasna Human Rights Centre informs that bloggers, entrepreneurs, activists of presidential candidates’ headquarters, and protesters stay in places of detention in Belarus, far from their relatives and friends. They were arrested for participating in […]
28.07.2021 • Natalia Tolub
Over the first half of 2021, the counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine exposed three intelligence networks in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Mykolayiv, and Odesa regions and detained 18 agents of Russian special services. One […]
26.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
A Belarusian citizen, Aleksey Fadeyev, who fought in Donbas on the side of Russian terrorist forces in 2014-2016, was sentenced to 21 years in prison in the Czech Republic. Ambassador of Ukraine to the Czech Republic Yevhen […]
23.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
If you open today any publication of Meduza, a well-known independent online media outlet, you can see the message right below the title of an article: “This message (content) was created and (or) distributed by a foreign […]
21.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Judicial reform in Ukraine is being actively implemented at the request of international partners and the public. The Verkhovna Rada has already passed numerous bills to regulate the activities of the judiciary. However, the legal […]
21.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Since the beginning of 2021, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has opened 328 criminal proceedings over encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, creation of terrorist groups or organisations. A total of 307 people […]
21.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
According to the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), more than 60 raids on the offices and apartments of media representatives were conducted in the country over the past 10 days. “Over the past 10 days, 63 […]
20.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine welcomes the adoption of the resolution "Cooperation with and Assistance to Ukraine in the Field of Human Rights" by the UN Human Rights Council. The document stipulates that the UN Human Rights Council will continue […]
15.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
For more than 15 years, the end of April has been marked by the World Immunization Week - the initiative of the World Health Organization. This year, in addition to promoting routine immunization, World Immunization […]
13.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
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