07.03.13 | Halya Coynash / Court strips Vlasenko of his mandate
In the latest blow to rule of law in Ukraine and the country's chance of signing the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, Serhiy Vlasenko, Batkivshchyna MP and defender of imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been stripped of his mandate.
05.03.13 | Razumkov expert: More politics than law in Ukraine's judicial system
Yury Yakymenko, Director of Political - Legal Programmes for the Razumkov Centre sees a clear political motive in both the new murder charges against Yulia Tymoshenko and the supposed new evidence against Kuchma over the killing of Georgy Gongadze
27.02.13 | Constitutional Court once again refuses to examine the language law
The Constitutional Court would seem for the third time to be claiming that the question of whether the controversial law which increased the status of the Russian language clashes with the Constitution does not fall within its jurisdiction
26.02.13 | Muffled even in Brussels
As EU leaders gave a clear time limit to Kyiv for resolving specific problems, including 'cases of selective justice', the President's Administration resorted to deception to avoid other issues being raised
25.02.13 | Halya Coynash / Selective Presidential Dialogue
Not everyone was welcome to take part in President Yanukovych's 'Dialogue with the Country' on 22 February, with some of the methods for keeping people out comical, others simply worrying.
11.02.13 | New publishing law removes important protection for Ukrainian
The Ukrainian PEN Centre expresses its concern over a draft bill 'On Publishing' which proposes, among other things, to abolish current norms which oblige the government to promote translation of foreign literary and scientific literature into Ukrainian.
11.02.13 | PEN-Centre protests silencing of Culture radio station
'The loss of the channel which broadcast interesting literary, musical and artistic programmes, is a palpable blow, especially in conditions of an unconcealed assault on all things Ukrainian, starting with the State language itself ...
08.02.13 | Unequivocal words from EU
Štefan Füle has stressed that time is running out for the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, and there needs to be solution to the problems of selective justice and other issues
07.02.13 | Grybauskaite: Association Agreement linked with Tymoshenko and Lutsenko
At a joint press conference with Viktor Yanukovych, Lithuania's President Grybauskaite: stated clearly that the EU-Ukraine Agreement is linked with politically motivated prosecution of opposition leaders, and that the situation must be resolved
07.02.13 | Klitschko, Allies Get Physical In Ukrainian Parliament
Push has come to shove again in the Ukrainian parliament, where opposition lawmakers have been physically blocking the podium for a full day and say their protest over MPs' "piano voting" (for absent colleagues) could go on indefinitely.

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