While working on one of my projects, I reread the reports of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine and took note of how often (perhaps more often than with other missions) the Russian occupiers…
Constitutional Crisis in Ukraine
March 9, 2021
“The best way to judge the state is to look at the way justice is done there.” Stanislaw Jerzy Leс – polish poet and philosopher What happened? The Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) is one…
While the COVID-19 pandemic is still raging throughout the world, and its aftermath is far away from being readily available to take stock of, it is nevertheless a high time to pose a question on…
“European Union’s Teeth” on Ukraine’s Service
March 4, 2021
On 7 December, the Council of the European Union adopted a global human rights sanctions regime. The established legal framework provides for the EU travel ban and the freezing of funds applying to individuals and…
Predatory Peacekeeping. Instead of Settling Conflicts, Russia Freezes Them in Its Own Interests
March 3, 2021
The armed conflicts in the post-Soviet space may have different causes and different durations but almost always they share the same “depth of freezing”. In Transnistria, fighting ceased in 1992. In Abkhazia, South Ossetia or…
Crimean Political and Seismic Zone
March 2, 2021
The issue of restoring the sovereignty of Ukraine and returning the territories of Crimea and Donbas temporarily occupied by Russia is as multi-vector as life itself. In addition to a need for the observance of…
Five Moments of 2020
March 1, 2021
Fight against COVID-19 In Ukraine, the fight against COVID-19 officially began on 3 March 2020 when the first coronavirus case was confirmed in the Chernivtsi region. Initially, the authorities took quite decisive measures, in particular,…
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…
‘Union State’ Based on Arbitrariness
February 26, 2021
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…
The Shariy Project
February 19, 2021
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…
Network of Eight Concentration Camps Already Operating in Belarus
February 15, 2021
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…
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…
MEP Andrius Kubilius: “Ukraine Also Inspired Protests in Russia”
February 8, 2021
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…
Europe Hopes for Democratic Change in Russia and Belarus
February 5, 2021
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…
Honorary Disgrace of Vice Admiral Beloventsev
February 5, 2021
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…
How To ‘Demine’ Ukraine
January 29, 2021
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…
Food Crisis: $400B Worth of Food Wasted Globally Each Year
January 18, 2021
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…
Grand Chessboard Update: Chance and Challenge
January 16, 2021
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…
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,…
To Get Everywhere: Assassination on President's Order
January 5, 2021
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,…
