The OSCE has recorded 6,294 ceasefire violations in Donbas since the agreements of the Trilateral Contact Group entered into force on 27 July 2020, reads the OSCE SMM report. Between 15 and 17 January 2021, […]
19.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Crimean Platform summit with the participation of foreign leaders is scheduled for 23 August 2021, the press service of the Office of the President of Ukraine reported citing a statement by Deputy Head of […]
18.01.2021 • 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
Representatives of the occupation authorities of the non-government controlled territories of Donbas have announced the unilateral transfer of a group of detainees to the Ukrainian side. According to Russian media outlets, citing a statement made […]
17.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine vainly fears the termination of the US sanctions policy on Russia Ukrainian and Russian media outlets reacted sharply to the news that a new US administration is likely to lift sanctions that now block […]
16.01.2021 • 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 North Atlantic Alliance has seen increased military build-up by Russia, from the High North all the way to the Baltic region, Black Sea, Middle East, and North Africa. NATO is concerned about Russia's expanded […]
15.01.2021 • 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
A meeting of political advisers to the leaders of the Normandy format countries took place in Germany. The Ukrainian delegation was led by Head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak. The consultations lasted more than […]
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 Kremlin was actively forming Ukraine’s image as an enemy during 2013-2014 when they began to understand that it would not be able to control the situation in Ukraine. So, it needed to intervene, but […]
12.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan signed agreements on the further development of Nagorno-Karabakh during talks in Moscow. It came almost two months after […]
12.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has stopped the activity of a neo-Nazi terrorist group in Kyiv, followers of Australian neo-Nazi white supremacist Brenton Tarrant. In March 2019, he killed 51 people and injured 40 […]
11.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine is awaiting a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the admissibility of a claim against Russia over an attempt to occupy Crimea in the coming days, Minister of Justice of Ukraine […]
10.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
According to the website of the Office of the Federal State Statistics Service for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, a total of 33,137 people arrived in Crimea as part of the “interregional migration movement” […]
08.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Pandemic 2020 was a year of radical changes, and for many they were not for the better. However, there have been many positive developments in the field of human rights in Ukraine. Release of ‘LPR’ […]
06.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Central Election Commission (CEC) has asked Donetsk and Luhansk regional state administrations to provide conclusions on the possibility of holding the first local elections in Donbas on 28 March 2021, the press service of […]
06.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukrainian intelligence obtained documents from the internal circulation of pro-Russian militants in Donbas that allowed for access to the personal data of Ukrainian citizens who joined the ranks of invaders. As Ukrainian intelligence officer Serhiy […]
05.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has blocked the financing of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR) terrorist organisation due to the large-scale, illegal supply of pharmaceutical products to the temporarily occupied territories. The Service’s officers […]
04.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 1 January 2021, Sweden took over the Chair of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Ann Linde became a new OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for a period […]
02.01.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak