At a press conference held today, 28 September, to mark Right to Know Day, Ukrainian human rights activists highlighted the ever-increasing number of areas of state activities classified as secret

When the public proves that the stamps being used to hide normative acts are illegal, the authorities could change their ways. Some unfortunately prefer to change the words

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

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

An almost surreally absurd saga in search of a simple piece of information

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union’s investigation into who owns the Ukrainian media suggests that legislation is ineffective and allowing many real of the real owners to hide between offshore companies

A new law increases the number of posts for which lustration procedure is required, and enables employers to terminate contracts if collaboration by their employee with the communist secret services is proven

The letter here seems to suggest that at least one member of the President’s Administration has no idea about the recent civil suit won by KhPG’s Yury Chumak, and precious little about who is bound to reply to requests for information

Well, they all tell you their name ... some regional administrations are much less forthcoming when it comes to other information they are obliged to place on their websites

More on the power of all those letters demanding both information we have the right to and the transparency of those in power

An excellent precedent as a Ukrainian court upholds a claim against the President of Ukraine for not providing information requested about "secret" Decrees. Unfortunately, as can be seen, the battle is not over ...

It took one individual a long journey all the way to the cassation court to establish her right to information about the Secretariat of the Human Rights Ombudsperson (!)

A Ukrainian court has ordered the Ministry of Health to obey the law on providing information. The question is justly asked why it needed a court ruling to achieve this.

Yury Chumak’s legal battle in defence of his right both as a citizen, and as a journalist providing information to his readers (of "Prava Ludyny") to know about the actions of all bodies of state power

More on battles won and those still to come, as well as useful keys to understanding some mysterious legal acts

An account of the recemt victories in the struggle against illegal classification of normative legal acts and a chance to read between the lines to fathom the real reaons why the regime was so coy about some of its actions

The Cabinet of Ministers has introduced rules for protecting information in information, telecommunications and information – telecommunications systems used for gathering, inputting, reading, storing, receiving and transmitting information

Experts also point out that information received by state bodies in the course of such interception is not always used for legitimate purposes

The List of Items of information which constitute a state secret remains comical in places, while demonstrating a very serious and stubborn lack of will in certain areas to make information of public significance open