Political repression continues unabated in the Russian Federation; with the number of political prisoners or people whose persecution is linked with a wish by the state authorities and officials to strengthen their positions and control over different spheres of life, according to various estimates, standing at about 200
Chilling cases involving public officials fleecing a village community came to light during an outreach visit by the UHHRU Ternopil Advice Centre in the village of Mali Chornokintsi in the Ternopil oblast
The SBU electronic database contains over 17 thousand copies of archival documents. More than double this number were ready to be added to the database, however the process has been stopped
18.03.10
Open Appeal from Ukrainian Human Rights Organizations over apparent plans by the Minister of Internal Affairs Anatoly Mohylev to dissolve the Department for Monitoring Human Rights in the Work of the Police
16.03.10
Ukraine needs unity and culture, our education and science need to develop in quality and competitiveness on the global arena, and universities – autonomy. Dmytro Tabachnyk cannot take on these tasks since the humanitarian field is not built on hatred and lies
The Media Law Institute, “Telekritika” and the Institute for Mass Information have issued a statement regarding the appointment of a new head of the National Television Company of the Ukraine [NTCU] expressing their concern that this appointment might be unconstitutional
15.03.10 | Yevhen Zakharov
An open letter to Valeriy Khoroshkovsky regarding his statements that there is no need for more declassifying of archival documents
11.03.10
Valery Khoroshkovsky, the new Head of the Security Service [SBU] believes that the Security Service should reduce work with archives and concentrate on its main tasks
The local authorities and residents of Kalush and the villages declared an environmental disaster zone are seriously concerned that a month has passed since the President signed his Decree and yet none of the funding stipulated and vitally needed has appeared
Around 2 thousand Ukrainian nationals are demanding compensation from the State for property lost in Poland from 1944 to 1951 during the mass resettlement of Ukrainians from ethnic Ukrainian land to the territory of the Ukrainian SSR
04.03.10
The Kharkiv Institute for Social Research has developed an electronic registration terminal for those entering district police stations
Tamara Chikunova, founder of the Uzbek organization “Mothers against the Death Penalty and Torture” is travelling around different countries to inform people about the horrors of the authoritarian system in Uzbekistan and about lawlessness in the law enforcement agencies
02.03.10
2 March 2010 is the eightieth birthday of Sergei Kovalev, human rights defender, former political prisoner, first Russian Federation Human Rights Ombudsperson and Chair of the Russian “Memorial” Historical-Educational and Human Rights Society
There are historians who do not believe that Holodomor falls under the Convention on Genocide. Whether or not we agree with them is another matter, only in no way, is it a political one. When the issue becomes politicized, we end up with political tasks and the "necessary" court rulings like that of 13 January
Late in the evening of 25 February well-known artist and writer Les Podervyansky received a call on his landline from a stranger who warned him to stop his activity aimed at discrediting the National Expert Commission on the Protection of Public Morality
