04.08.06
This ruling regarding what information may or may not be provided on medical certificates is a first and could provide a valuable precedent for further cases in defence of privacy
30.07.06 | Yevhen Zakharov
The recent picket organized in Kharkiv against a believed visit by Patriarch Filaret was in breach of Ukrainian law, an affront tothe religious feelings of many worshippers, and a very dangerous precedent
29.07.06 | Yevhen Zakharov
The remains will be laid to rest of 225 people, 80 of whom were children, discovered four years in the crypt of a monastery in Zhovkva in the Lviv region
The well-known dissident and author of "HIstory’s carnival" suggests, and in fascinating detail demonstrates the efficacy of, a carnival method of fighting past and present ills
18.07.06 | V. P. Kolisnyk, F.V. Venislavsky, V.I. Kychun
The analysis points to irregularities in the recent changes in coalition partners and gives a damning assessment both of the results of the "political reform" (constitutional amendments), and of the general level of the country’s parliamentarians
Dina Kaminskaya, lawyer and committed human rights activist, who defended many dissidents in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 87. We join the International Society "Memorial" in expressing our deepest sorrow at her passing.
13.07.06
As so often, a cheering account of what civic organizations are doing to help people with disabilities, and depressing details of how the authorities are failing such people
13.07.06
The letter here seems to suggest that at least one member of the President’s Administration has no idea about the recent civil suit won by KhPG’s Yury Chumak, and precious little about who is bound to reply to requests for information
27.06.06 | Yevhen Zakharov
New information technology but the same fundamental rights and freedoms: the real challenge now being legal regulation to ensure post-Soviet hankerings for control are given short shrift
