For the third year in a row, a memorial action was held in Kyiv on 16 September, marking the day of Georgy Gongadze’s disappearance in 2000. It was once again an event organized not by political parties or civic organizations, but by ordinary individuals

For the third year in a row, a memorial action was held in Kyiv on 16 September, marking the day of Georgy Gongadze’s disappearance in 2000. It was once again an event organized not by political parties or civic organizations, but by ordinary individuals

Valery Marchenko “loved life and very much wanted to live. However allowing the KGB to destroy his body, he was not going to let them destroy the HUMAN BEING in him. Citizens of many countries have the privilege of being a human being from birth. Valery, together with other dissidents, had to fight for this “privilege”.

While remembering Georgy Gongadze on this seventh anniversary of his disappearance, light your candles today also, and raise your voices loud, about Belarus where there are many political prisoners NOW. The difference requires no analysis. It needs action.

On the seventh anniversary of the journalists’ disappearance, all those who wish to honour his memory are invited to come, with candles and flowers to Maidan Nezaleznosti [Independence Square] in Kyiv at 19.00. All are welcome, political campaigning is not

This time the CEC has lodged an appeal calling on the High Administrative Court to revoke the Kyiv District Administrative Court’s ruling ordering the Commission to set out the requirements for permission to vote at home within a three-day period

Despite the Russian Supreme Court having acceded to the Prosecutor General, the Moscow City Court has upheld its ruling on the illegality of holding the investigation into new charges against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in Chita

Around 47% of the respondents said that they had paid bribes over the last year (against 50.2% in 2006). Most often, although this was down on last year, this had been to doctors (30.9% against 35.9% in 2006). In second place were bribes to teachers – 16.9%; in third – traffic police – 13.1%. According to Ms Naidyonova, these last two had virtually not changed.

Yelena Bonner, widow of Andrei Sakharov and prominent human rights defender has stated that the Russian authorities are attempting to destroy the Andrei Sakharov Prize “For Journalism as an Act of Conscience”

At 19.00 on 16 September journalists, civic activists and other members of the public will gather on Maidan Nezalezhnosti to remember Georgy Gongadze and all journalists killed

At 19.00 on 16 September journalists, civic activists and other members of the public will gather on Maidan Nezalezhnosti to remember Georgy Gongadze and all journalists killed

The author mentions the analogy between human rights and an immune system which a healthy organism may be blithely unaware of , but which is desperately relevant to those in ill-health, He wishes that the European Commission were more aware of this need.

The Deputy Head of the Central Election Commission Andriy Mahepa says that Ukrainians returning from abroad just before the elections will be able to vote by turning to the court. The President has made a constitutional submission to the Constitutional Court asking for an assessment of the norm in question

The exhibition is in the library of the Loeven Catholic University and presents posters from contemporary Ukrainian artists from the 1960s to 1990s

He was detained today at the same court which sentenced him after arriving with dozens of people to show support for activist of the Youth Front Yaroslav Gryshchenko who is charged with activities on behalf of an unsanctioned organization

Investigations are continuing into this foul and for Ukraine unprecedented incident during which a Nazi banner was unfurled in Kyiv

A roundtable run by the Committee of Voters of Ukraine has called on political factions to stop using the language issue, and others, as part of their election campaigning

A roundtable run by the Committee of Voters of Ukraine has called on political factions to stop using the language issue, and others, as part of their election campaigning

Public statement from civic organizations, public figures, and members of the media on the inadmissibility of constitutional changes being used or made for political gain and affirming that it is civic society which must be the key player in any changes to what is a public contract, not a political tool

KHPG legal expert Arkady Bushchenko calls the new legislative initiative an attempt to transfer the problem from the patient to a healthy person. There are laws, they need to be made to work.