NGOs from Europe, USA, and other countries call upon the Ukrainian authorities to stop persecuting anti-corruption activists in Ukraine. This is stated in the open letter signed by 52 civic organizations, published by the Ukrainian Human...
Russia’s leading human rights groups say that ethnic Russians are now actively discriminating against ethnic Ukrainians even though Vladimir Putin invariably insists that Russians and Ukrainians are one people and also persecuting...
Russia gave the world the Potemkin village, in which officials tried to cover up problems from those above them; but now it has become “a garden of fig leaves,” in which those at the top have turned the country into “a garden of fig...
What is life like for Ukrainian Crimeans who have refused to take Russian citizenship, who have not yet received a Russian passport and stateless persons? Ukrainian legislation stipulates that all documents issued in Crimea by...
In a tragic confirmation of truth behind Stalin’s dictum that a single death is a tragedy but a million is only a statistic, media coverage of the horrific beating of Ildar Dadin by his Russian jailers has attracted widespread attention...
The City Court of Noginsk (Moscow region) has ruled to demolish the Orthodox Holy Trinity Church that is part of the Bogorodsk Diocese of the Kyiv Patriarchate. This is the only church under the jurisdiction of the Kyiv Patriarchate...
The number and percentage of ethnic Russians in Astrakhan has been declining two to three percent every decade, according to Viktor Viktorin; but the number of the region’s residents who speak Russian has been growing, as fewer members...
On May 17, 2016, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his family and colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) were attacked by a hoard of paramilitary “Cossacks” shouting “Get off our land” while police casually...
Madam Poklonskaya! I really don’t believe that you’re the main inspiration and organizer of the new political persecutions in occupied Crimea, but you will, without a doubt, not only faithfully execute Moscow’s orders, but also...
Thanks to their strong public stance and patriotism during the two years of trials and turbulence in our country, Ukrainian Muslims have managed to gain the respect of Ukrainian society and stirred up an interest in their history and...
Free independent media is a necessary condition for democracy to function in any country. Censorship, on the other hand, is rampant in all its forms in dictatorships. These definitions may be relevant in a black and white world; in...
