Drunk cops suspected of killing 5-year old kid, sparking demands for Ukrainian Minister to resign
It’s 31 May, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi city, Kyiv Oblast, the eve of International Children’s Day. Some police officers find Friday…
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Ukrainian activist attacked with acid dies in hospital. Mandator of murder still not found
Those who ordered her murder still not found.
Epidemic of attacks on activists in Ukraine – result of aborted police reform
On 15 October, Daryna Aleksandrova heard her car alarm go off on 3 AM. It was too late…
Attacks on civic activists in Ukraine reaching critical level, encouraged by unreformed police
Kateryna Handziuk had just come out of her apartment when an unknown attacker splashed a litre of sulfuric…
Ukraine’s photogenic “new cops” went viral, but the real police reform is yet to start
Plans to transform the law enforcement bloc in Ukraine were up in the air immediately after the success…
Investigative documentary on journalist’s murder finds leads that cops didn’t, traces to SBU
When Ukrainian-Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet was murdered in Kyiv on 20 July 2016, President Petro Poroshenko said that…
Russian poet Sergey Gandlevskiy: We’re plunging straight into hell!
Russian poet Sergey Gandlevskiy was recently arrested in the Moscow metro for tearing down a portrait of Soviet…
Unpunished for Maidan pacification, Berkut militia becomes Ukraine’s New Police
Ukraine’s glamorous new Patrol Police is only the tip of the iceberg in Ukraine’s law-enforcement system reform. A vast…
Ukraine’s fired policemen protest police reform
Ukraine’s most well-known reform is the creation of a new, non-corrupt police service based on the Georgian model. However,…
Spell our name with a ‘mi’: Ukrainian law enforcement and the new patrol police
Kyiv’s new patrol police was presented on 11 June 2015 in Kyiv. Photos by Yulia Babych I’ve seen too…
15 Steps for a drastic police reform in Ukraine from former Georgian deputy minister Eka Zguladze
Some ten years ago after the Rose Revolution Georgia used to have corrupt police, courts and prosecutors. Trust…
Former Odessa Oblast Police Chief Fuchedzhi Flees Ukraine, Placed on Wanted List
Ukraine’s Minister of Interior Arsen Avakov reported that former chief of Odesa oblast police Dmytro Fuchedzhi has been…
Euromaidan activists attacked and beaten by police near Kharkiv
Hanna Sinkova, journalist at informator.su The first reports are coming in about those activists arrested near Kharkiv or…
In Moscow, people speaking Ukrainian are being beaten
Since the beginning of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict, attitudes towards Ukrainians in Moscow have worsened markedly, from both policemen…
Ukrainian law enforcement authorities have detained two suspects in the shootings of Maidan protesters
According to Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, a preliminary report on the investigation of mass murders in the center…
Maidan: a determination to win, not to be defeated, and to be willing to go to the very end
Protestors periodically shoot fireworks at Berkut Robert van Voren. February 20, 2014 Tonight the atmosphere at Maidan was…
The Sniper Story of the Maidan Murders Does not Tell All: Journalist
Every Maidan death must be investigated Journalist Olga Khudetska lists the names of murdered Maidan activists whose death…
One hundred people were killed during the clashes in Kyiv
Friday, March 7, 2014, 08:18 The Ministry of Health reports that the number of dead in the clashes…
Avakov: “Third force” involved in Kyiv bloodshed
A “third force” was involved in the conflict between the protesters and police which resulted in almost 100…
Abductors of Lutsenko and Verbytsky have been detained
The men responsible for the abduction of activists Ihor Lutsenko and Yuriy Verbytsky have been detained by the…
