He says that the decision not to allocate land on Yalynska St to build an Assembly Mosque was unlawful and that the police would not be vacating the protesters

The committee would present a comprehensive document on combating racism and xenophobia in Ukraine which the Ministry of Internal Affairs says goes beyond its powers

The committee would present a comprehensive document on combating racism and xenophobia in Ukraine which the Ministry of Internal Affairs says goes beyond its powers

Different sides presented their view of the penal system in Ukraine to one of the only journalists who perceived the public need for information about the spectacle which took place at – and outside – a press conference on 22 February

Different sides presented their view of the penal system in Ukraine to one of the only journalists who perceived the public need for information about the spectacle which took place at – and outside – a press conference on 22 February

Professor Serbyn provides compelling arguments backed in part by material published since the collapse of the Soviet Union for recognizing that Holodomor does fall within the UN definition of genocide and that deliberate starvation was directed against Ukrainians

The renowned human rights defender and former political prisoner has addressed the following open letter to President Putin, the Head of the Russian Federation Central Election Commission V. Churov, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs S. Lavrov.

Inna Fedushchak, Head of the “Poshuk” [“Search”] Society and member of the International Historical, Educational and Human Rights Society “Memorial”, has died in Lviv, aged 71.

Irina Kazulina died yesterday, 23 February, of cancer. Her husband, Belarusian political prisoner and former democratic candidate in the Presidential elections, is serving a five and a half year sentence for his opposition activities

Plans to move the monument to victims of repression are unacceptable. "We are convinced that the Solovky Stone, like the Grave of the Unknown Soldier, are sacred places, demanding special respect"

UNICEF is also prepared to help the Ukrainian Government in preparing its report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child but on condition that it will reflect the real problems which Ukrainian children face

Mexico is the fifth Latin American country to have not only expressed solidarity with the Ukrainian people, but to have also declared Holodomor to have been an act of genocide. The other countries are Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru

A body designed to increase public safety is increasingly becoming a source of danger. This situation is leading to grave violations of the rights both of prisoners and personnel of penal institutions, to the use of unlawful force against people deprived of their liberty and to abuse of official powers

6 January 2007, Christmas Eve in the Orthodox tradition should have been the seventieth birthday of Vasyl Stus, poet, dissident thinker and Soviet political prisoner. He died in the Perm Labour Camp 22 years ago, on 4 September 1985

According to Glavred, the Kyiv Prosecutor has only recently passed a criminal case to the Court of Appeal following a fatal attack on a Korean national Kang Jongvon by four men on 23 April last year.

The lawyer representing Myroslava Gongadze sees no sign of efforts to find those who ordered the journalists’ murder

The lawyer representing Myroslava Gongadze sees no sign of efforts to find those who ordered the journalists’ murder

According to Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine this was a taboo subject under Soviet rule and a a lot of testimony about those who saved the lives of Jewish people during the Second Wolrd War has been lost, however the search is continuing

The Ministry for Environmental Protection has turned down plans for building a centralized radioactive waste storage site in the Chernobyl zone

According to the federal body overseeing the media, the author’s suggestion that dark circumstances be changed for a light choice “can be interpreted as a public call for a change to the basis of the constitutional order”