“The 32-year-old independent journalist and human rights researcher was declared guilty of “illegal border crossing”, “smuggling of subversive literature” and provocation using foreign funding.

18-year-old Belarusian activist Yladzimir Shulzhytsky printed out the times for broadcasts on Radio Svoboda and distributed them to people’s letterboxes in his city of Smorhoni. ““I simply saw no other alternative, but to give people a chance to receive truthful information”

The newly-created Centre will provide around 250 at-risk children and adolescents with social, medical, psychological, legal and other aid

10.3 million UH are effectively hopeless debts to employees at remaining agricultural enterprises.

Umida Niyazova, a 32-year-old journalist and single mother with a toddler son, is accused of “illegal border crossing” and “smuggling of subversive literature" and could face a ten-year prison sentence

Appeal of Civic Leaders

Mstislav Rostropovych died today, 27 April 2007, in Moscow. An immeasurable loss not only for the world of music, but for all who bowed before his unwavering courage and commitment to human rights

After presenting the results of six months monitoring of the press with regard to their coverage of the difficulties experienced by people with special needs, problems of mobility, treatment by the authorities and the attitude of members of the public to people with disabilities were discussed

On 27 -28 April 1947, the Polish authorities with the consent of the USSR and backed by Soviet forces, began the “Wisła Operation” aimed at depriving the Ukrainian Resistence Army [UPA] of their social base. In August 1990 the Polish Senate passed a resolution condemning the operation.

So where will the investigation into the Chyhyryn incident lead the Human Rights Ombudsperson’s Secretariat? The question arises due to the appearance of ever more curious details about the Ombudsperson’s investigation into the incident in which members of the Party of the Regions took schoolchildren from the Cherkasy region to a political rally in Kyiv

So where will the investigation into the Chyhyryn incident lead the Human Rights Ombudsperson’s Secretariat? The question arises due to the appearance of ever more curious details about the Ombudsperson’s investigation into the incident in which members of the Party of the Regions took schoolchildren from the Cherkasy region to a political rally in Kyiv

The funeral took place today in Ivano-Frankivsk of the artist, laureate of the Shevchenko State Award and former political prisoner Opanas Zalyvakha

The funeral took place today in Ivano-Frankivsk of the artist, laureate of the Shevchenko State Award and former political prisoner Opanas Zalyvakha

The picketers were arrested in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, They were wearing orange construction helmets and explained that “Petersburg residents can only defend themselves from police batons with helmets”.

Ceremonies are taking place today in Ukraine and in other countries in memory of the victims of the terrible disaster.President Yushchenko has called on the authorities and society to make every effort to revive the Chernobyl zone.

The first phase of a project on ensuring the public’s right of access to information about the activities of the authorities identified disturbing, if sometimes also absurd, discrepancies in how various State bodies interpreted the same norms of the Constitution and laws

According to the President’s Secretariat, the grounds included a submission from the Head of the Supreme Court suggesting that Vadim Kopylyan be dismissed for a grave infringement of his professional duties

The region holds 13,227 people who suffered as a result of the Chernobyl Disaster, 3,835 of them children. There are 908 people with disability status as a result.

The death has been announced of the well-known artist Opanas Zalyvakha. He died in Ivano-Frankivsk in the early hours of 24 April 2007

The death has been announced of the well-known artist Opanas Zalyvakha. He died in Ivano-Frankivsk in the early hours of 24 April 2007