A large-scale event in support of activist and blogger Serhiy Sternenko, who is being held in an Odesa pre-trial detention center following conviction, was held near the Office of the President of Ukraine on Saturday […]
21.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in our condemnation of Russia’s […]
19.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Iran’s Civil Aviation Organisation released the final report on the circumstances of crash of Ukraine International Airlines passenger plane (Flight PS752) in January 2020. As Reuters reports, the document states that the plane was shot down due […]
18.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ukrainian authorities plan to allow second citizenship of the European Union and other friendly countries. The Russian Federation cannot be on the list of admitted countries. "A limitation is important. The second citizenship of […]
17.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In 2021, the citizens of Ukraine may lose about 10,000 land plots in the territory of Crimea. The one-year term, which the Russian occupation authorities gave to "foreigners" for alienation, expires in March. Human rights […]
17.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
To: Refat Chubarov, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People My dear friend Refat, We met in Riga 33 years ago, during the establishment of the People’s Front and the Singing Revolution. You stood […]
16.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba called on the Russian Federation to provide the representatives of international organisations with the access to the territory of the occupied Crimea. In particular, the minister mentioned […]
13.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The year 2020 has brought its fair share of challenges to all entrepreneurs. Although businesses in Ukraine are used to working in a fast-changing landscape, they still faced an incredible pressure caused by the Covid-19 […]
12.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The first municipal elections in Ukraine with a record low turnout (the first round - 37%, the second one - 29%) in times of a coronavirus pandemic together with the new, unbalanced and imperfect Electoral […]
11.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Almost 40 states have already agreed to take part in the inaugural summit of the Crimean Platform, which will take place on 24 August 2021, on the thirtieth anniversary of Ukraine's independence. A relevant announcement […]
08.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
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 […]
05.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine strongly condemns the unfounded and politically motivated ruling of the Southern Military District Court in Rostov-on-Don (Russia) of 3 March 2021 to convict Ukrainian citizen Oleh Prykhodko on fabricated charges of “preparations for act […]
04.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) accepted the application lodged by 67-year-old Nina Panfilova from Shakhtarsk town, Donetsk region, who became homeless overnight. Her apartment and all her property were completely destroyed with a […]
03.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
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 […]
03.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine welcomes the decision of the European Union to apply for the first time a new global human rights sanctions regime against four Russian officials over human rights violations […]
03.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
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 […]
02.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (NSDC) has instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to propose a bill within two months that would identify Ukrainians with dual citizenship, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said following a NSDC meeting […]
27.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
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 […]
26.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has issued a statement dedicated to the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the occupation of Crimea. "26 February has become a symbol of resistance to the occupation, […]
26.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
A lawyer of the convicted opposition leader Alexei Navalny said that his client had been taken from the pre-trial detention centre and suggested that he could have been transferred to a penal colony. "Today, when […]
26.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak