All features
-
Daily digest of main Ukrainian news (Euromaidan focus) January 31By Internews Ukraine Kyiv, 31 January 2014 Yanukovych revoked dictatorship laws and signed PoR drafted amnesty law. President Yanokovych signed bills adopted by the Parliament on 28-29 January into law....
-
Automaidan damaged but not crushedDespite the arrests and disappearance of its members, “Avtomaidan” has become even more united. According to one of its leaders, Aleksey Grycenko, it can be incorporated into civil society. Well-organized and...
-
MPs from Party of Regions hit opponents as they try to prevent violation of lawVolodymyr Struk, deputy of the parliamentary faction from the ruling Party of Regions hit Lesya Orobets, deputy of the opposition faction BYuT (Block of Yulia Tymoshenko), while she was trying...
-
The war against humanityPoet Ivan Kulinskiy on freedom, existence and heat of humanity. For the longest time I've been trying to avoid expressing my own thoughts about the situation we found ourselves in, because...
-
How much more bloodshed is needed for them to defend a European nation in the heart of EuropeUkrainian artist Boris Yeghiazaryan: "I would like to ask, how much more bloodshed is needed for them to defend a European nation in the heart of Europe?" The first day, when the...
-
Governmental and criminal terror in Dnipropetrivsk on January 26.Common people in Dnipropetrovsk are being terrorized by the police and criminals It began when so-called “titushki”, hired goons obviously protected by state police forces, inflamed a bloody, violent fight...
-
Top legal experts have created a Commission to Investigate Human Rights Violations in UkrainePRESS RELEASE Contact for media (063) 286-68-69 Well-respected experts in the field of law and former political prisoners are gathering evidence for a Special Tribunal regarding human rights violations during...
-
Evidence for International Tribunal being gathered on criminals from “Berkut”A new Committee for investigating Human Rights violations is established in Ukraine, Gazeta.ua reports. Twelve leading lawyers and former political prisoners will collect evidence of such violations that allegedly took...
-
Daily digest of main Ukrainian news (Euromaidan focus), January 30by Internews Ukraine Parliament passed PoR drafted amnesty law. In the late evening of 29 January Ukrainian Parliament passed the Party of the Regions drafted amnesty law with 232 MPs...
-
This is for Vradyivka! Because only Dante could live up to describing the the social hell Ukrainians are living inAn opinion from Viktor Yadukha, translated into English which explains the unfolding feelings towards President Yanukovych in all regions of Ukraine due to unprecedented growth of corruption, crime and lack...
-
A hospital wrought by Maidan’s handsFor activists and simple citizens, it took little more than a week to equip Euromaidan hospitals completely from scratch at the regional hospitals’ level. Defibrillators, surgical lightings, electrocardiographs, pulse oximeters, oxygen...
-
Perpetrators of cimes against humanity in Ukraine must be brought to justicePoet and translator Ostap Slyvynsky about torture, abuse of prisoners, violating the rules and customs of war. For active and free sharing worldwide. As of today, January 26, 2014, it...
-
Anatomy of Maidan. Virtual tour of the protesters’ groundsKyiv is relatively calm now, so it’s just the right time to study Maidan in detail. Almost everybody has heard that word, but not everybody imagines how everything works here.... -
The price of freedomUkrainians value their freedom. The 'Dictatorship laws' caused mass indignation and radicalised protests. 9 of the 11 laws were just revoked in the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament). But the initiators of...
-
Daily digest of main Ukrainian news (Euromaidan focus), January 29by Internews Ukraine Courts rule arrest of 49 persons detained during Hrushevskoho street clashes. Kyiv district courts ruled arrest of 49 persons suspected in engaging into mass riots on Hurshevskoho...
-
Why did AutoMaidan become the frontline of Ukraine’s civil protest?Occupying and marching streets has long been a traditional way of public protest. But since the early days of Ukraine’s latest uprising, the foot-borne crowds on the central square received support...
