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The nominal salary in June 2005, in comparison with June 2004, increased for 36.9% and was 823.10 hryvnas, which exceeded the amount of the subsistence wage for able-to-work person in Ukraine (453 hryvnas) for 81.7%, informed Vyacheslav Kirilenko, the Minister of labor and social politics.
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“We are writing to you on behalf of human rights organizations who very frequently deal with violations of patients’ rights. We can say openly that the current situation in this sphere violates the basic constitutional right of citizens of Ukraine – the right to life.”
The new Ukrainian regimes talks about an open society, about transparency of its work and about its rejection of the legacy of Kuchma’s system, based on clans, corruption and lack of public control. However problems exist which make one feel sceptical about such statements, the problems of illegal classification of legal documents and non-transparency of power
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The very spirit of such rules runs counter to international and Ukrainian norms on the right of access to information, to the principle of transparency and openness of activities of the organs of state power.
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On 21 June the Kharkiv regional branch of the party “Our Ukraine” and the public organization “Our Ukrainian youth” held an event entitled: “Build the press in a new way in response to the draft “Rules for accreditation of members of the mass media in the Kharkiv regional state administration”
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The results of a survey carried out by the Chernihiv City Department of the all-Ukrainian public organization “Voters’ committee of Ukraine”.
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Documentation relating to the illegal search of the building and to the infliction of bodily injuries on a journalist of the newspaper “Luganchane” by tax police officers of the Kharkiv region has been passed to the Luhansk regional prosecutor’s office.
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On 28 July 2005 men with machine guns accompanied by some people in civilian clothes identifying themselves as officers of the Kharkiv regional tax militia stormed an office situated on the Oboronnaya street. They conducted an illegal search of the office and inflicted bodily injuries on a young employee of the newspaper “Luganchane”.
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When some journalists tried to establish how a private shop could have been destroyed in broad daylight in the historical center of Kherson without the police taking any measures, those involved in the devastation were physically violent and grabbed their video recorders and dictaphones.
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During the past six months scandals have arisen systematically in Ukraine concerning the collection of information from communication channels of the well-known citizens. We want to remind that the collection of information from communication channels as one of methods of the ODA may be applied only in the cases concerned with grave and especially grave crimes.
14.09.05 | Yevhen Zakharov
In order to establish what the situation really is with legal aid provided by the State in criminal cases, the Kharkiv group for human rights protection turned with formal requests for information to the Ministry of Justice, territorial departments of justice, State judicial administration of Ukraine (SJAU) and to appeal courts. The data obtained in the responses to our irequests are summed up in the article.
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To establish how free legal aid is rendered in criminal cases at the expense of the state budget, the Kharkiv group for human rights protection turned with informational requests to the Ministry of Justice, territorial departments of justice, State judicial administration of Ukraine and to appeal courts. The data obtained in the responses to our informational requests are summed up in the article
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On 2 July a round table “Free legal aid: ensuring the right of citizens of Ukraine to access to justice” was held in the hotel “Natsionalny" to discuss a system and efficient mechanisms for providing free legal aid when needed.
A 20-year-old boy, an invalid of the first group, was regularly beaten in the Kherson regional psychiatric hospital. The boy has died, and his mother is still striving for justice.
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Investigation of most of these cases is already completed and the criminal cases have been passed to courts for consideration. The most frequent violations of election laws are: illegal use of voting bulletins, forgery of electoral documents, incorrect calculation of votes or incorrect announcement of results of the election.
