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OPEN LETTER Dear PACE Assembly Member, Civil society across Europe is receiving worrying signals that PACE might vote to severely limit its sanctions powers in order to lift the political sanctions imposed on the Russian delegation in PACE...
The push to reinstate the Russian delegation in PACE started in 2016 but has really picked up speed now. On 3 June, PACE’s Rules Committee approved a draft resolution capitulating to the demands of the Russian delegation. The resolution...
EP: How likely is Russia’s exit from the Council of Europe? Having taught probability theory for 30 years, I can say that it is impossible to evaluate the probability here – it’s not calculated for one-time events, only an a...
On 21 May, newly-appointed Ukrainian Presidential Administration head Andriy Bohdan stirred up controversy with Ukrainian political commentators when he announсed the intentions of Ukraine’s new authorities to conduct a referendum...
Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin Stanislav Klykh has started a hunger strike in a Russian prison, according to Tatiana Shchur, a Russian human rights defender. “Today, Stanislav Klykh’s mother called me and told me...
When Ukrainian prosecutors released audio intercepts that appeared to show the direct involvement of Kremlin top advisor Sergey Glazyev in Russia’s takeover of Crimea and pro-separatist rallies in eastern Ukraine in August 2016, they...
Petro Poroshenko conceded his opponent’s victory after the first exit polls were in on 21 April. The incumbent president didn’t manage to bridge the gap with his opponent after the first round of elections on 31 March. Despite...
On 25 April, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted law #5670-d “on the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language,” which greatly expands protections for Ukrainian in Ukraine. The heavily debated law was adopted by...
Read the summary article about the first round of elections: Comedian to face incumbent President in run-off and other takeaways of Ukrainian elections 23 April, 23:03 The final results of Ukraine’s presidential election are in....
By today, there is little doubt that Volodymyr Zelenskyy will win the second round of Ukraine’s presidential election on 21 April. The comic-turned-presidential candidate earned a little over 30% of votes in the first round on 31...
Is the conflict domestic or international? In December 2018, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Ukraine-related part of their “Report on Preliminary Examination Activities” has repeated the...
