One of the inhabitants of the tent city on October Square erected after the presidential elections in March, Sivchik had fled to Ukraine and only returned to Minsk a month ago

The resettlement took place as a result of artificially provoked antagonism between Poles and Ukrainians on the border region between the two countries in which thousands of civilians from both sides died

Thanks to the concerted efforts of the public, the media and his own representatives in the Crimea, President Yushchenko has cancelled a Decree creating an environmentally disastrous transport and industrial complex

The Belarusian Supreme Court has refused to consider the collective citizens’ appeal signed by 6,000 Belarusians to have the outcome of the presidential elections declared invalid

STB states that the incident involving obstruction to journalists carrying out their professional duties can be laid to rest only by the law enforcement agencies

The latest move to eradicate illegal stamps restricting access to information and other means using by those in power to conceal their activities from public scrutiny

On the work of the public reception centre of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in the first 6 months of 2006

On the work of the public reception centre of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in the first 6 months of 2006

Freedom House’s annual report also states that Russia has consolidated its position as a “not free country”, while certain other post-Soviet states have even entered the list of the “Worst of the worst”, i.e. the most repressive countries of the world

There may be many more mass graves on Ukrainian territory, but access to the NKVD archives in Moscow is now needed and that road is closed to Ukrainian researchers

After the recent scandal over an anti-drugs campaign, the Ukrainian Association for External Advertising and the All-Ukrainian Association for Harm Reduction have agreed that when organizing such campaigns people working with vulnerable groups will be involved

The "visit" today by over 70 Lviv journalists and their statement achieved one aim - a commission has been created. Postive as a beginning, but by no means enough ...

The "visit" today by over 70 Lviv journalists and their statement achieved one aim - a commission has been created. Postive as a beginning, but by no means enough ...

As the reconstruction work still continues in the centre of Lviv, journalists have rallied to call for an end to this barbarism and to use all means in their power to inform Ukrainians and the world community of what is happening

The Sandarmokh Clearing in Karelia holds the unnamed graves of around 12,000 victims of the Terror, including more than 1100 Ukrainians from the Solovky Embarkation

The results presented here of surveys and monitoring carried out among prisoners and ex-prisoners, medical personnel and others, make extremely disturbing reading and show that the situation with tuberculosis in penal institutions is in no way under control

St. Catherine’s Church in Chernihiv has once again been made the centre of religious confrontation

St. Catherine’s Church in Chernihiv has once again been made the centre of religious confrontation

A worrying trend, with the greatest reductions in transparency rating seen for the Ministries of Finance and of the Economy and the Ministry for Environmental Protection

A worrying trend, with the greatest reductions in transparency rating seen for the Ministries of Finance and of the Economy and the Ministry for Environmental Protection