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Oppression of Freedom of Speech: Russia Persecuting Journalists in Crimea

Over the occupation of Crimea, Ukrainian human rights activists have recorded at least 370 cases of persecution of journalists on the peninsula, including 100 cases over the first month of the seizure. In fact, the…

March 1, 2021

‘Union State’ Based on Arbitrariness

The loss of legitimacy is throwing the Russian and Belarusian dictators into each other’s arms. This is an alarming circumstance for Ukraine. The 22 February meeting of Alexander Lukashenka and Vladimir Putin in Sochi took…

February 26, 2021

The Shariy Project

The methods of information warfare waged against Ukraine are sometimes very exotic On 16 February, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) served blogger Anatoliy Shariy with a notice of charges of high treason and violation…

February 19, 2021

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Network of Eight Concentration Camps Already Operating in Belarus

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…

February 15, 2021

Over 100 Cases of Persecution of Activists Recorded in Ukraine Last Year

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…

February 10, 2021

MEP Andrius Kubilius: “Ukraine Also Inspired Protests in Russia”

The EU needs to make its sanctions mechanism much more effective to help defend human rights and democracy in Belarus and Russia or other countries where people are fighting with very brutal authoritarian regimes, said…

February 8, 2021

Europe Hopes for Democratic Change in Russia and Belarus

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…

February 5, 2021

Honorary Disgrace of Vice Admiral Beloventsev

Russia involves rogue states in hushing up its international crimes. Ukraine reacted to the opening of an honorary consulate of Nicaragua in Crimea and imposed sanctions on this state. Given the low intensity of relations…

February 5, 2021

How To ‘Demine’ Ukraine

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…

January 29, 2021

Food Crisis: $400B Worth of Food Wasted Globally Each Year

Impressive numbers show that people around the world throw away kilograms of food totalling USD 400 billion annually. In the EU, up to 30% of food goes to waste, causing global economic losses worth about…

January 18, 2021

Grand Chessboard Update: Chance and Challenge

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…

January 16, 2021

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Blow Through Social Networks: How to Defend Democracy without Losing Freedom

The 6 January events in Washington, D.C., when right-wing extremists who support Donald Trump’s stormed the US Capitol building, shocked the United States and the whole world. The Democratic Party is initiating the impeachment process,…

January 12, 2021

To Get Everywhere: Assassination on President's Order

The State Security Committee (KGB) of the Republic of Belarus carried out extrajudicial verdicts delivered by the president to his opponents, as evidenced by an audio recording released by EUobserver. A 24-minute audio file, recorded on 11 April 2012,…

January 5, 2021

Continuous Extreme: 2020 results and 2021 Expectations

The world is tired of quarantines, wars, conflicts and crises. This difficult year was remembered by unprecedented conditions and decisions. Promote Ukraine asked the experts what were the most important events for Ukraine in 2020….

January 1, 2021

A World without Children: Global Demographic Crisis in Ukraine

Most European countries have long suffered from a demographic crisis. Among them is Ukraine, which, according to the Countrymeters calculator, will lose 152,881 of its inhabitants this year alone. For many years, the low birth…

December 17, 2020

Judicial Crisis: Operation of Courts Blocked in Ukraine

YouControl analytical system experts have counted 80 courts which have so far announced the termination of dispatch of letters to litigants. That is, about 15% of Ukrainian courts no longer send inquiries necessary to ensure…

December 9, 2020

Industrialbank: The Development of the Banks in Ukraine is Hampered by Imperfect Legislation

Creditors’ rights in Ukraine are not sufficiently protected, and people and companies cannot fully rely on the judicial system to make economic decisions, says Vladislav Verchenko, Deputy Head of the Supervisory Board at the Ukrainian…

December 9, 2020