The Ministry claims that this will help in holding EURO 2012., which is bizarre since the move will lead to massive queues, and the football club has been held in a number of countries and none has introduced such a system.

The First Deputy Minister says that they asked passengers and found that 80% were against the proposed change. Mr Korniyenko added that there was no ticket touting at the moment and there was no point to introducing named tickets.

A draft law has been registered in parliament which binds communications operators and providers to buy special equipment which law enforcement bodies will use for wiretapping

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union has initiated an appeal by civic organizations against plans to reintroduce named railway tickets

While the police say that they searched a journalist’s home on Saturday following a court order, the European Court of Human Rights sees such court orders as the last resort and the journalist herself says that had she been asked for the material sought, she would have handed it over

The Head of the Security Service is asking the Head of the Supreme Court to consider the possibility of courts providing permits at once for all telephone calls of a suspect to be intercepted during investigative operations

Journalists discovered that you can find out any Ternopil resident’s illnesses in a matter of minutes. You only need the person’s address and last name

Ukrainians remain unprotected legislatively from wiretapping and intrusion in their private life with wiretapping, interception of emails, surveillance, etc used quite frequently

The Verkhovna Rada has at long last adopted as a base a draft law on improving mechanisms for protecting constitutional rights during investigative operations and counter-espionage activities

It is not merely the number of permits issued to intercept information which causes concern, but the feeble correlation between such invasion of privacy and prosecution for actual crimes.

In order to contract an agreement on eased visa restrictions with the European Union, Ukraine will have to fulfil a number of requirements including introducing biometric passports

Parliament has not succeeded in overcoming the President’s veto on a bill which, as the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, warned, posed a serious threat to privacy and other rights

The President’s decision to veto a law which UHHRU had warned could seriously jeopardize people’s rights, especially the right to privacy, is warmly welcomed

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union is calling on the President to veto a law just passed in great haste introducing a system which violates human rights, will waste an extortionate amount of money and achieve nothing

The time frame during which the Cabinet of Ministers was supposed to inform the Administrative Court of Appeal on the measures taken for safeguarding rights and freedoms when carrying out investigative operations is about to expire

The Ministry considers that debt collector firms should only be provided with the bank’s confidential information on the written request or consent of the debtor

A Kyiv court has refused to declare a Cabinet of Ministers Resolution on court warrants for interception of communications unlawful, but has issued a separate judgment warning the Cabinet that the Resolution fails to safeguard vital rights

When carrying out investigative operations, detective inquiry and pre-trial investigations, court orders must be obtained not only for intercepting and recording telephone conversations, but also for receiving information about telephone conversations and their duration

The relevant government committee has supported a draft Cabinet of Ministers Resolution which will among other things abolish the need to give names and other passport details on railway tickets