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 […]
04.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The occupation authorities of the so-called "Donetsk People’s Republic" allowed their militants to open "warning" fire on Ukrainian servicepersons and positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As the Ostrov media outlet reports, such instructions […]
03.03.2021 • 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
President of the European Council Charles Michel has arrived in Ukraine on an official visit as part of his tour to the Eastern Partnership countries. His plane landed at Kharkiv airport, from where the official left […]
02.03.2021 • 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 Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) blocked the operation of a sock puppet farm with a capacity of more than 18,000 accounts, which worked on commission from curators from the aggressor state and some Ukrainian […]
02.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The leadership of the Ukrainian delegation to the Joint Control and Coordination Center (JCCC) sent a note to the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine concerning the provocative actions of Russian […]
01.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
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 […]
01.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Over the past day, 28 February, the armed formations of the Russian Federation violated the ceasefire regime in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area seven times. The Russian-occupation troops opened aimed fire from 120mm mortars, […]
01.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Lublin Triangle initiative, which unites Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland, is very useful and brings Ukraine's European integration closer, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis said in an interview with Radio Liberty. "I […]
28.02.2021 • 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
Microsoft claims the involvement of Russian foreign intelligence in a massive cyber attack on at least nine US government agencies and dozens of private companies. "We have seen substantial evidence that points to the Russian […]
25.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Perhaps, the past six years have been the best period in the history of Ukraine-Japan relations. However, the bilateral cooperation could have been even better if there had not been the Japanese purposeful policy of […]
24.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 23 February, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba took part in the high-level segment of the Conference on Disarmament 2021. He assured of Ukraine's readiness to assist in resuming the effective work […]
24.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ukrainian military command plans to hold paratrooper exercises near the administrative border with the temporarily occupied Crimea in March. The main goal of the maneuvers is to improve the ability to timely and adequately […]
23.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
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