Ukrainian activist and former political prisoner Edem Bekirov was sentenced in absentia by the occupation court of Simferopol to seven years in a penal colony and a fine of RUB 150,000. He was convicted on […]
09.06.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs recently published a draft report with recommendations for the EU leadership on how to build relations with Russia. The document sets out five principles to underpin the cooperation of the […]
09.06.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukrainian diplomats state that Russia’s withdrawal from the Treaty on Open Skies is not unexpected for Ukraine and other parties to the Treaty. “In that way, Moscow’s course deliberately launched back in the mid-2000s reaches […]
09.06.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The “Russian world” poses a threat not only to countries with a Russian-speaking population but also to Russia itself. A corresponding statement was made by participants in an expert discussion on the topic of “Russian […]
07.06.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ukrainian authorities have launched a process of vaccination against COVID-19 for those citizens of Ukraine who live in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and in Crimea and who belong […]
05.06.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ukrainian authorities will act immediately against any attempts to legitimise the occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. If at least one plane of the Belarusian airlines arrives in the territory of the occupied peninsula, sanctions […]
02.06.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
“Export of Russian Corruption. 1st Report - Medicine” – this is the name of the report that describes the situation in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper was presented at the online event of Friends of […]
01.06.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Since 2019, militants of “Donetsk People’s Republic” have been holding Olena Zaitseva and Vladyslav Zaitsev captive. The mother and the son were accused of plotting sabotage. Their story was told by the Media Initiative for […]
31.05.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The escalation of relations with the “Union State” requires a systematic reconsideration of Western countries’ policies The incident of the forced or deceptive landing of a Ryanair plane in Minsk in order to capture Belarusian […]
29.05.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Iranian authorities persecuted them, forced them not to talk to journalists, and intimidated relatives of the victims of crash of the Ukraine International Airlines plane, which was downed near Tehran on 8 January 2020. Iranian security […]
28.05.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine scheduled the launch of digital COVID-19 vaccine certificates for early July. The document is expected to be valid throughout Europe. "The EU is, in fact, in the final stages […]
26.05.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
To date, about 400,000 unemployed people are officially registered in Ukraine. Since 1 January 2021, more than 1 million citizens have sought assistance from the State Employment Service, which now has about 80,000 job openings […]
26.05.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Promote Ukraine has joined the Together for Freedom global movement which aims to expose the links between dictatorships and condemn such regimes formed in particular by Russia and China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOxiwevbbXY "We are united to achieve […]
25.05.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In connection with the abduction of Belarusian journalist Raman Pratasevich in Minsk, the EU leaders called for additional urgent sanctions against Belarus and avoidance of overflight of Belarus by European carriers. This was announced by Spokesperson […]
25.05.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Vladyslav, 27, was injured in January 2015 when he went to a store in his hometown of Horlivka. Fighting was ongoing in the town, and a shell dropped a hundred metres from him. Since then, Vladyslav […]
24.05.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Belarusian opposition journalist Roman Protasevich, former editor of the main Belarusian opposition NEXTA Telegram channel and incumbent editor of the Belarus of the Brain Telegram channel, was detained in Minsk. The flight from Athens to Vilnius with Protasevich […]
24.05.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Deportation of Crimean Tatars and on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of Crimean Tatar People, the Ukrainian authorities have stated that […]
18.05.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Residents of the occupied areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions massively leave for work in Russia, the Eastern Human Rights Group informs on its Facebook page. The active process is associated with several factors, including: […]
17.05.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine endorsed the main national vectors of financial monitoring development for the next three years. They provide for the improvement of national anti-money laundering system in accordance with international standards. […]
17.05.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
To date, Russia continues to illegally hold more than 100 Ukrainian citizens in custody for political reasons in the occupied Crimea and in the territory of the Russian Federation. As part of the information campaign “Loyalty to […]
17.05.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak