22.05.13 | Levada Center, Russia's Most Respected Pollster, Fears Closure
Prosecutors this week officially warned the polling agency that it is in breach of legislation requiring politically engaged NGOs that receive foreign funding to register as "foreign agents."
21.05.13 | Journalists protest over „antifascist' assaults and police inaction
Over 150 journalists held a protest on Monday following the attack on Olha Snitsarchuk and Vladyslav Sodel on Saturday by so-called antifascists цршср took place in full view of police officers who did not intervene despite being asked for help (and clearly needing it).
21.05.13 | State plundering of nature reserves
Over the last five years nature reserve land in Ukraine has contracted to a catastrophic degree. Environmentalists say that this is because those in power are appropriating parts of it.
20.05.13 | Halya Coynash / Dangerous 'antifascist' card
Unlike administrative resource, thugs and cynical "antifascist" rhetoric, imagination was in short supply at the 18 May 'antifascist demonstration' in Kyiv. While VO Svoboda ideological consistency does not make its bigoted views any more palatable, the Party of the Regions was still stupendously uncovincing
20.05.13 | Halya Coynash / Ukraine's Bar under Fire
Ukrainian advocates have become the latest targets in a concentrated drive over the last three years to create a malleable and dependent judiciary. The measures being applied to remove dissident voices and intimidate others bear stark resemblance to those which have already succeeded in Belarus
20.05.13 | Remembering the Victims of Political Repression
Remembrance services and ceremonies took place in many parts of Ukraine on Sunday for the Victims of political repression
18.05.13 | Thugs assault journalists while police look on
In full view of the police Olha Snitsarchuk from TV Channel 5 and Vladyslav Sodel a Kommersant Ukraine photographer were beaten by unidentified louts. The police did not intervene despite being asked for protection several times by the journalists.
18.05.13 | Police detain Spilna Sprava civic activists
On Saturday afternoon Berkut riot police detained Oleksandr Danylyuk, the leader of Spilna Sprava [Common Cause] and four other activists from the movement.
18.05.13 | Remembrance and Vigil
On the 69th anniversary of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homeland, we join Crimean Tatars in remembering the Victims of a terrible crime. This year, however, the cynical actions of the authorities make vigilance and attention from beyond the Crimea vital.
17.05.13 | On the danger and cynicism behind the 'anti-fascist' events planned for 18 May
The Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine [Vaad] and the Congress of National Communities have issued a joint statement regarding the supposed 'anti-fascist' demonstration planned for 18 May.

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