CVU sees no major threat to the results of the elections but notes with concern cases of bribery of voters, the lack of discussion of candidates’ programmes and amount of concealed campaigning in the media
On 25 November the Kyiv Economic Court found unlawful Item 1 of the Kyiv City Council’s Decision No. 162/1996 from 22 August 2007 which illegally decreased by 9 times the area of the reserve, from 1794 to 196 hectares
27.11.09
The Head of Ukraine’s Security Service [SBU], Valentin Nalyvaichenko has told TV Channel 5 that the criminal file over Holodomor 1932-1933 could be submitted to the court by the end of the year
27.11.09
Government-influenced TV is hampering democracy in Russia, Belarus and most post-Soviet countries in Central Asia and the South Caucasus, and it could endanger international peace and security if misused as a propaganda tool, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti warns
26.11.09
The Centre for Legal and Political Studies “SIM” has expressed concern over allegations that prisoners in the Lutsk SIZO [investigative isolation unit] have been beaten and the refusal of SIZO staff to allow visits to the prisoners in question
25.11.09
Hryhory Petrovsky was the Head of the Ukrainian Central Committee, as well as of the All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee and one of the organizers of Holodomor, the man-made famine in 1932-1933
22.11.09
The Ukraine authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Belarusian musician and activist Igor Koktysh, detained for over two years for the peaceful expression of his beliefs
20.11.09
People who in Soviet times faced politically motivated criminal prosecutions are not able to gain rehabilitation and have their “convictions” revoked
17.11.09
According to some observers, current Ukrainian legislation restrictions the opportunities of the media to provide objective coverage of the presidential election campaign, and it is too late to change this
16.11.09
A comparative analysis of the results shows that in the period from 2003 there was a fall of about 400 thousand in the number of people experiencing blows and bodily injuries during detention
16.11.09
In Ukraine there are a large number of legal firms, yet only a few carry out pro bono projects and even less conduct such activities in the sphere of human rights protection
The diaries of a heroic British reporter who sacrificed his reputation, and perhaps his life, to expose Stalin’s “terror famine” in Soviet Ukraine are to go on public display for the first time
The National Television and Broadcasting Council has decided to create an expert council on issues regarding the activities of television and radio companies during the pre-election campaign and presidential elections
12.11.09
The Institute for Mass Information, which carries out constant monitoring of journalists’ rights, reports that October saw an unprecedented number of assaults and attempts to intimidate journalists
11.11.09
An important victory in the drawn-out conflict between the regional landscape park “Granite-Steppe Pobuzhya” and the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom
"For Human Rights" and the Moscow Helsinki Group say their work has been thrown into jeopardy by municipal efforts to evict them from their offices
Yet what does one do if the highest judicial body – the Supreme Court of Ukraine – demonstrates flagrant contempt for the justice system? (on the Yaremenko case)
06.11.09
Lawyers representing Yury Beketov, a remand prisoner in the Kyiv SIZO have stated that their client has not been provided with medical care which, according to European Court of Human Rights case law, can be deemed a form of torture
06.11.09
A ceremony has been held in Rivne in memory of the Jews shot on the outskirts of the regional centre by the Nazis. 68 years ago, during the space of two days 17.5 thousand Jews brought from the Rivne Ghetto were executed in the Sosonki Clearing
05.11.09
The Head of the Committee of Voters considers that the draft law on the Presidential elections has listened to most recommendations from European bodies and hopes that Deputies will resist the temptation to introduce other changes convenient for their political forces
A Kyiv court has found that in the case of Vadim Hladchuk, all were at fault – police, the court and the Prosecutor’s office. It awarded damages of 125 thousand UAH, which neither Mr Hladchuk, nor his lawyer consider sufficient since the case involved real criminal prosecution
