31.12.08
The Directorate is convinced that the ruling will lead to a new string of court hearings dragging out the process of compelling the Simferopol City Council to conclude a lease agreement for land on which to build an Assembly [Soborna] Mosque
30.12.08
The decision to stop broadcasting from 1 January 2009 on national FM channels will affect the BBC, Voice of America and “Radio Svoboda / Azadlyg”
"As the murders of Russian journalists go unsolved, there are increasing signs that the impunity of Russia’s contract killers is not accidental"
The new draft law tabled recently in parliament has failings which need to be ironed out, but also some positive amendments on the current law
25.12.08
“Ukrainska Pravda” and “Korespondent.net” are angered over a statement made by the President’s Press Secretary in which she asserted that the question from Internet users which had gained the most votes reflected the interests of Russian users
22.12.08 | Halya Coynash
Ukraine’s politicians appear to be oblivious to the acute dangers posed by the present economic crisis and are still engaged tin hurling accusations and blaming others for problems that they all bear direct responsibility for dealing with
16.12.08
All those whose actions are directed “against the security of the Russian Federation, including its constitutional system, sovereignty, territorial and state integrity” will become traitors and spies in Russia if new amendments to the Criminal Code are passed.
15.12.08 | Halya Coynash
I write these words in the last month of 2008 in an attempt to pull the issue of anti-Semitism in Ukraine from the edge of a black hole in which time and space have ceased to exist, and to stop blurring different issues in order to move forward in our time and space
15.12.08 | Viacheslav Likhachev
The author has been carrying out monitoring for several years which makes the empirical data here of the greatest interest
15.12.08 | Sergei Kovalev
Speech by renowned human rights defender and Head of the Russian “Memorial” Society to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 2008
20-year-old Salekh Azizov’s headless body was found by police on 6 December in a Moscow region.forest Human rights defenders are convinced that the authorities are letting radicals see how far they can go
04.12.08
The disks removed in the search by men in masks, armed with police batons, contain databases with biographical information about tens of thousands of victims of Stalin’s repressions gathered by Memorial over twenty years
03.12.08
The results of this study by the Centre for Judicial Studies demonstrate dangerous tendencies with infringements of judicial independence, with the institutional independence of the judiciary under constant threat from individual high-ranking public officials and state bodies.
27.11.08
The judge of the Halytsky District Court has ordered the Mayor to retract false information damaging the newspaper’s business reputation at a session of the Council
26.11.08
Rafael Lemkin’s endeavours to have genocide in the 1948 Convention encompass the crime committed against a social class were thwarted by the Soviet side. Lemkin was however in any case convinced that Holodomor was a “classic example of Soviet genocide”
24.11.08 | Halya Coynash
Given recent heavy-handed reactions, one wishes the Security Service could bear in mind that before any action, it is always wise to weigh the likely damage of the action against the harm from doing nothing
24.11.08
On Sunday 23 November around 250 people took part in constructing a fence around the land on Yaltynska St where it is hoped to build the Mosque - Dzhuma-Dzhami
22.11.08
The Vice-Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, human rights defender and, former political prisoner believes it would be impossible to accept such an award while these are being used by the President as instruments for political bargaining
22.11.08
On Wednesday the judge announced that the trial was to be behind closed doors, claiming that this was at the jury’s request. The next day one of the jury members informed the radio station Echo Moskvy that no such request had been made
20.11.08 | Yevhen Sverstyuk
The letter below was written by Yevhen Sverstyuk, President of the Ukrainian PEN Club, writer and former political prisoner to Russia’ President Medvedev with regard to the latter’s refusal to attend Holodomor Remembrance events in Kyiv
