While changes in migration policy are long overdue, the author expresses grave doubts over the wisdom of placing this vital area under Ministry of Internal Affairs control

Justice? Where are we heading? This was the sign on one of the banners unfurled outside the Chernihiv Regional Court of Appeal by protesters angered by the suspended sentence handed down to a convicted paedophile.

At the beginning of February there were 930 thousand registered unemployed, with only 86.5 thousand jobs available. This means that for February this year there were 11 people for each job as opposed to 4 at the same time last year

The Ukrainian Institute for National Remembrance has issued a statement saying that it does not understand why the Russian State Archives are refusing to publish documents relating to the events of 1932-1933 in Ukraine

Hundreds of people in Moscow attended a march on Sunday in memory of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, gunned down by a hired killer almost one month ago

The latest highly controversial assessment from the National Expert Commission for the Protection of Public Morality has already had consequences and the scandal is unlikely to die down quickly.

Monitoring studies conducted by the ACTION) Project has found that the nationwide introduction of standardized external testing contributed to a considerable reduction of the level of corruption during admission processes

If a new draft law just submitted to the Verkhovna Rada is passed, permits to own traumatic pistols will be available to anyone over 21 who has received a medical OK to obtain, hold and use such weapons

On 12 February, the Court in Strasbourg found violations of Article 2 of the European Convention (right to life) and others over the enforced disappearance of five men in different locations in Chechnya between January 2000 and January 2003

Specialists assert that it is extremely easy to intercept correspondence via the Internet, and say that cases where Security Service [KGB] officers look for potential agents on the Internet are not uncommon

The Head of the Kyiv branch of the Media Trade Union has asked the Prosecutor General to look into inaction by a Kyiv district prosecutor’s office over allegations of police inaction and obstruction of the work of the journalists on 2 October 2008

The Deputy Director of the Sova Centre which carries out monitoring and research into xenophobia and human rights in Russia has received a letter containing threats

According to specialists from the Centre for Legal Initiatives “Law-Based State”, the idea expressed by Mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetsky is in contravention of the Constitution, three laws and a Constitutional Court Judgment

The Minister of Justice says that the Ministry’s analysis shows that since 2005 the number of documents classified through stamps restricting access has noticeably decreased

The Investigation Committee for Chechnya believes it has established that former Army Colonel Yury Budanov is implicated in the abduction of three people whose bodies were subsequently discovered in the Urus-Martanovsky District

The report points to various rights violations including infringement of the principle of freedom and non-discrimination; the right to information; to freedom of peaceful assembly and to form civic associations; access to justice

The creation is finally planned of a register of crimes committed on the basis of racial, ethnic or religious intolerance. This should enable statistical reporting on the number and nature of such crimes and on the results of police investigations into them.

Ukraine’s Internet Association [InAU] is planning to launch a web resource on which Internet users can register complaints regarding unacceptable content on the Web, including child pornography and manifestations of racial intolerance

Ukraine’s Internet Association [InAU] is planning to launch a web resource on which Internet users can register complaints regarding unacceptable content on the Web, including child pornography and manifestations of racial intolerance

This centre could be closed if efforts are not taken to stop the latest attempt to evict organizations which by virtue of their vital social role cannot compete with commercial outfits or unconvincing imitations of civic centres