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
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 Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has refused the three minority shareholders of PJSC Ukrnafta (Littop Enterprises, Bridgemont Ventures, and Bordo Managament) will not satisfy their claim against Ukraine for more than […]
05.02.2021 • 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
A father of a 22-year-old deceased Ukrainian defender, Yevhen Kornienko, is seeking justice at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Anatoliy Kornienko proved in national courts that the Russian Federation is to blame for […]
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
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
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
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
Since the beginning of 2014, Ukraine has experienced many social upheavals that have changed Ukrainian society. The Revolution of Dignity strengthened national consciousness, and Russian aggression and occupation of territories made Ukrainians unite in opposition […]
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
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained at the passport control zone at Sheremetyevo International Airport immediately after arriving in Moscow. On Sunday, he flew back to Russia from Berlin, where he was treated for […]
18.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In 2020, 16 political prisoners from Crimea were given varying prison sentences (the highest of 19 years), 424 people were deprived of the right to a fair trial and 77 persons were illegally transferred outside […]
16.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered the first judgement in the case Ukraine v. Russia regarding the occupation of Crimea, declaring Kyiv's allegations of human rights violations on the occupied peninsula admissible. Thus, […]
14.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In 2020, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) solved 536 corruption offences, including demanding and taking a bribe, embezzlement, abuse of influence, power or official position, and others. A total of 90 criminal proceedings were instituted […]
14.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Interpol has issued wanted notices for two Russians and a Portuguese man over the explosion at the port of the Lebanese city of Beirut, which occurred on 4 August 2020, destroying almost half of the […]
13.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
A Russian court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced three Crimean Tatar Muslims in the case of the Bilohirsk group of Hizb ut-Tahrir. All three men were sentenced to terms in a high-security prison on religious terrorism charges. […]
12.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Canada, Sweden, Afghanistan and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement on the anniversary of the tragic downing of Flight PS752 near Tehran. "One year ago, in the early morning […]
08.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak