13.12.02
The Shevchenkivsky district court of Kyiv chose the preventive measure, keeping under custody, for Konstantin Grigorishin. He is kept in the preliminary prison No. 13 of Kyiv.
13.12.02
In the morning of 12 October 2002, in the very center of Kyiv, some men attacked MP Vladimir Sivkovich, journalist Andrey Kudin, a people deputy of the Pecherskiy district of Kyiv, and well-known businessman Konstantin Grigorishin, a Russian citizen and the president of the joint Ukrainian-Russian enterprise „Energostandard group“. The attackers appeared to be officers of the Directorate for fighting organized crime, of the Pecherskiy district militia precinct and of the special militia troop „Sokol“.
13.12.02 | Oleksandr Stepanenko, a deputy of the oblast council from the Chortkiv district, a coordinator of th
The author tells about the catastrophe situation with the illegal felling of the forests in the Ternopil oblast and how the authorities on the both local and all-Ukrainian level conceal these criminal activities.
13.12.02
The project „Media reforms“ approved by the British government is aimed to change the attitude to the freedom of speech and the independent mass media in the entire Ukrainian society. The Center of media reforms will be created for this at the National University „Kyivo-Mogilianska Academy“.
13.12.02 | Galina Sinarevska
Lugansk journalists turned to MPs with the proposition to introduce changes into the laws regulating the informational activities. The cause for this appeal was the closure of the newspaper „Rakurs-plus“.
13.12.02
Ukrainian journalists demand to create the Independent trade union of journalists for protecting the right to fulfil their professional duties.
13.12.02
The agency got under a strong pressure connected with its independent information activities, and the collective relates this with the appointment a week ago of the new head of information service, who represents the interests of President’s administration.
13.12.02
The international organization „Reporters without frontiers“ made public the list consisting of 139 countries with their rating by the level of the freedom of speech. Ukraine is on the 112th position, Russia – on 121st, Belarus – on 124th.
13.12.02
On 9 October the Council of Europe published in Strasbourg three reports on the periodic visits of the European Committee of preventing torture and cruel treatment in 1998, 1999 and 2001. These reports communicate that Ukrainian penitentiaries are overcrowded, beggarly and are dangerous concerning catching TB.
13.12.02
The Commission of encouraging democratization and development of civil society will, among others, provide the consent of actions concerning political reforms and hold consultations between citizens’ unions and organs of state power for achieving consensus in this sphere. This is stipulated by President Kuchma’s Decree of 7 October 2002.
13.12.02 | Evhen Zakharov, the Kharkov Group for human rights protection
Does the civil society exist in Ukraine and, in particular, that part of it, which is traditionally named human rights protection movement? Author’s meditations and readers’ comments.
13.12.02 | Inna Sukhorukova, Kharkov
