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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The President of the Freedom House David Kramer: The time has come for Yanukovych to make the right conclusion and resignToday the president of the Freedom House David Kramer is a member of the informal «situational group» engaged into preparation of proposals to the American government on how to react...
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Scenarios for Ukraine: revolutionary, positive and fatal. What can the West do?Optimism mingles with black despair in assessing the situation in Ukraine. The forecast of the upcoming events depends on which feeling takes over. In order to cope with the task we...
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Former president Kravchuk proposes to oversee negotiationsThe first President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk offers MPs to set up a commission for reforming the Constitution and offers his services as a guarantor of discussions between the opposition...
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An Illusion of CompromiseThe West, in publications like the Guardian and in statements by various top officials, continues to show little understanding of the real issues and the insignificance of Yanukoych's recent dilatory,...
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Oppositonal MP Lesya Orobets’ appeal on the matter of concessions made by YanukovychTo everyone concerned. At a present moment NO concessions were made by Yanukovich. These are tactical goals of steps undertaken ("voluntary resignation" of Azarov, "repeal of dictatorship laws"): to save...
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Daily digest of main Ukrainian news (Euromaidan focus) January 28Kyiv, 28 January 2014 Azarov stepped down. Mykola Azarov, Ukraine’s Prime Minister, stepped down, Ukrainska Pravda reported with reference to the government’s press service. The Prime Minister explained his resignation...
