Relations between the West and Russia are entering a new stage, and the chief European diplomat was the first to experience this firsthand On 9 February, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy […]
10.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukrainian special services plan to initiate the imposition of individual sanctions against some members of parliament in the near future. Some MPs involved in supplying weapons to terrorists will be prosecuted, Secretary of the National […]
06.02.2021 • 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
On Tuesday, 2 February, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky issued a decree enacting a decision of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) on the application of sanctions against MP Taras Kozak and TV channels of […]
04.02.2021 • 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
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
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine strongly condemns the so-called "privatisation" of the State Concern National Production Agricultural Association Masandra in Crimea, planned by the Russian Federation. The Masandra winery is under the authority […]
10.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The US House of Representatives passed a resolution over the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, calling on Washington to impose sanctions on Russia. As the House's website writes, 371 congressmen voted for the […]
19.11.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine granted a special permit to the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences to use the subsoil of the Artemivsk rock salt field, located in […]
02.11.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The European Union has made a political decision on the application of sanctions in connection with the situation in Belarus and will approve them tomorrow with the written procedure. “Immediately after the elections in Belarus, […]
02.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
A US senators bipartisan group has introduced a bill in the Congress upper house that provides for new sanctions against Russia over the criminal activity of Vladimir Putin's regime. The website of Senator Marco Rubio […]
25.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Belarus has reacted to the sanctions imposed by the Baltic states. The authorities in Minsk assured that they would take adequate measures in response. "The attempts to impose sanctions have the opposite effect," Anatoly Glaz, […]
01.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The United States has updated the sanctions list against Russians and Russian companies to include three Russian citizens and five legal entities, the US Treasury official statement announced. Russian citizens Igor Lavrenkov, Andrey Mandel and […]
16.07.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The United States has fined e-commerce giant Amazon for delivering goods to individuals or entities subject to US sanctions, including ones on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, Kyiv Post writes. In 2011-2018, the company still operated […]
10.07.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The war provoked by Russia is not going on in eastern Ukraine, in fact, the war is going on in Eastern Europe. This was emphasized by the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister for […]
15.06.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Should sanctions be eased during the pandemic? – this is a title of an article prepared by the European Parliament Research Service. Authors of the publication explain why the EU keeps sanctions in Russia, Belarus, […]
29.05.2020 • pu
A new report "Peace in Ukraine 1: A European War" of the Brussels based International Crisis Group (ICG) outlines the "need" of the Euratlantic community to be more "flexible" towards Russia. It is the first […]
28.04.2020 • pu
Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, Media Initiative for Human Rights, Center for Civil Liberties, Human Rights Centre ZMINA, Centre of civic education „Almenda”, Association of Relatives of Political Prisoners of the Kremlin, Crimea SOS, Crimean Human Rights Group, Regional Centre for Human Rights, New […]
23.04.2020 • pu
Are sanctions of the EU against Russia effective? Is the return of Russia to PACE good for Russian people? What is the position of Ukraine on Nordstream 2?
14.07.2019 • Marta Barandiy