The Ministry of Education headed by Dmytro Tabachnyk has in a year undertaken an assault on the autonomy of universities and stopped movement towards the Bologna system. This is the view expressed in an interview given to Radio Svoboda by Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, Father Boris Gudziak
24.02.11
The human rights organizations’ report on the human rights situation in the country during 2009 and 2010 was presented at a press conference on 24 February
On 16 February the SBU [Security Service] yet again summoned historian and Director of the National Memorial Museum of Victims of the Occupation Regimes “Tyurma na Lonskoho” in Lviv, Ruslan Zabily for questioning
15.02.11 | Yevhen Zakharov
Generalizing international legal practice while taking into account Ukrainian social and political reality and the experience of the Soviet and in particular Ukrainian human rights movement and assuming the categorical rejection of violence as a means for upholding ones rights, the following definitiions are proposed
14.02.11 | Yevhen Zakharov
January 2011 saw a wave of detentions, searches, interrogations of members of the organizations VO Svoboda [the Freedom Party], V.O. Tryzub and other similar organizations
Vasyl Onopenko says that he has no intention of resigning, but believes the criminal investigation lodged against his daughter to be unlawful and aimed at putting pressure on him
09.02.11 | Yevhen Zakharov
What should we expect and will the conditions for exercising the right to information really improve? We will examine the laws passed with regard, firstly, to removal of the significant flaws in the Law on Information, and secondly, with how they meet international standards
A number of Ukrainian writers have signed an open letter calling on the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting to boycott the Minsk International Book Fair scheduled for 9-14 February
02.02.11
Over disturbing human rights abuse by the police and cause for concern over two deaths at the Losiv Police Station in the Kharkiv region
The Spiritual Directorate of Crimean Muslims reports that Ukraine’s High Economic Court has upheld the right of Crimean Muslims to build a Soborna, or Assembly, Mosque in Simferopol
The Prosecutor sees no grounds for initiating criminal proceedings against the police officer who allegedly tortured Yakov Strogan.
