Iryna Bekeshkina, director of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, says that those who initially supported the Russian occupation of the Donbas did so because they expected that would lead to an improvement in their lives....
The bill was published by the Ukrainian media outlet hromadske.ua. The first news of the preparation of such a bill appeared on 13 June, when NSDC Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov stated that Ukraine needs to move to a new format for...
“Two provocateurs” is how one of the most odious Kremlin “hawks,” Russia’s deputy prime minister and indisputable chauvinist Dmitry Rogozin, commented on the report by the Chisinau Institute for Public Policy...
The 25th anniversary of the Transnistrian conflict is a more significant date for Ukraine than for Moldova. This is because attempts to resolve the conflict in Moldova and to restore its territorial integrity prove that Russia does not...
On Wednesday, 25 January, 2017 in Russia-occupied Crimea, the Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Nikolai Polozov, the legal defender of two high-profile Crimean Tatar activists Ahtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov. If the Russian security...
Avraam Shmulyevich, a leading Israeli specialist on ethnic issues in the former Soviet space, says that Kyiv might be forced to agree to a Trump-Putin deal on Crimea but that such a deal would “only convince the Russian dictator that he...
73 states voted in support of the document entitled “Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (Ukraine),” 23 voted against, and 76 abstained. 41 states joined the list of...
In an interview with TV channel Luhansk 24, Vladislav Deinego, “LNR”s official envoy to the Minsk talks, openly declared that Russia is fighting on the side of “LNR” militants. His statement fully negates testimonies by so-called...
Fundamental human rights in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine are being violated for over 2.5 years now. The Russian-backed separatists have systematically exploited the religious factor, trying to reinforce their imposed governance and...
Russia has deployed to Ukraine’s Donbas an air defence division of the 60th detached motorised rifle brigade that is capable of taking down aircraft, including civilian ones, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry’s Main Intelligence...
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...
