The argument over the rehabilitation of the Tsar and his family has gone on for 10 years and this is not the end, since the court also upheld the order that the Prosecutor General reconsider the application.

The canal, opened for shipping on 10 May, as well as the way the decision to build it was made have aroused strong criticism from Ukrainian and international environmental organizations

Allegedly to fight discrimination where women are not employed because they may get pregnant, the Minister of Employment is seriously suggesting giving employers the right to dismiss pregnant women employees for “infringements of labour legislation”

This week the Kyiv Appeal Court passed sentence in the case involving the abduction of journalist Oleksy Podolsky. Those who carried out the crime which bears much in common with the abduction and murder of Georgy Gongadze, were sentenced to three years imprisonment.

This week the Kyiv Appeal Court passed sentence in the case involving the abduction of journalist Oleksy Podolsky. Those who carried out the crime which bears much in common with the abduction and murder of Georgy Gongadze, were sentenced to three years imprisonment.

The Constitutional Court has stressed that interference in its work by political forces is unacceptable. In a statement read out on 10 May, the judges express concern over, among other things, the dismissals and threatened dismissals by the President and coalition respectively

MAUP’s latest court flop came on the eve of Victory Day. The institute had filed a suit demanding that members of the Ukrainian intelligentsia retract their statement that fringe elements linked with MAUP were trying to present to the world an image, long debunked, of Ukraine as a hotbed of xenophobia. A Kyiv court found no grounds for allowing the claim.

"As each year passes, I understand with ever greater clarity and bitterness that the Victory – both of those who fell in battle, and those who returned, has been stolen. For 364 days of the year it belongs to pillagers. And on only one day – 9 May – does it belong to us. This year even our day has been sullied by pseudo-patriotic young rabble enacting a spectacle of “Insulted victorious liberator”

The author analyzes, among other things, the constitutional grounds (or lack of such) for a permanent, “open door” coalition, and generally examines the argumentation underpinning the new Decree

Russian hisstorian Alexander Daniel shares his perception of the conflict over the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn

The Uzbek independent journalist Umida Niyazova was released today after the Appeal Court quashed a seven year sentence passed a week ago for “illegal border crossing" and “smuggling of subversive literature

Asked what needed to be done to resolve conflict after a century in which “there were many events in Ukraine’s history where Ukrainians killed one another in large numbers”, 52.3% answered that there must be reconciliation and believed that it was not a question of some having been right, and others to blame.

More than 100 members of Britain’s political and cultural elite have signed a letter in which they state: "It is part of our intention to bring the horrific situation in Chechnya to wider public attention, and exhort President Putin to take whatever action he can to restore peace and the rule of law in Chechnya."

This was the name of a civic action during which Kyiv volunteers spent this Saturday working on the reserve area “Bykivnya Graves” near Kyiv. It is a poignantly appropriate title since the Bykivnya Forest holds one of the largest mass graves of victims of the communist regime.

A call to protect one of Kharkiv’s remaining cinemas and cultural centres

Another series of events in Russia where the law appears to be for the records, and abductions and disappearances used to serve the same purpose. The account here would suggest that the FSB is conniving with the Uzbek authorities to abduct and forcibly return to Uzbekistan people persecuted for their religious beliefs

The article prompted some Muslims in Baku to publicly “sentence to death” its author, threatening to behead him. Nonetheless, the court found that the author had incited enmity

The article prompted some Muslims in Baku to publicly “sentence to death” its author, threatening to behead him. Nonetheless, the court found that the author had incited enmity

Serhiy Burov from Kharkiv spent that amount of time in a SIZO [remand prison] serving a sentence which had never actually come into force

This was the assessment given on 3 May by the Director of the Institute of Mass Information. She referred to results of monitoring of freedom of speech and an analysis of the situation in the information sphere in 2006, carried out by the IMI and the Ukrainian Independent Media Trade Union