ECRI’s Chair ad interim, François Sant’Angelo, said that, while there have been some improvements, there are still concerns in most areas covered by the Commission’s mandate

The decision is unlikely to be understood either in Ukraine or abroad. The article in question was written about in foreign newspapers because it was so shockingly racist

The Ternopil Prosecutor’s Office has apparently begun a check over the scandalous material which has deeply offended local students from other countries, elicited outrage not only in Ukraine

The website Polemika.com.ua reports that one of the three men detained on suspicion of involvement in an attack on foreign students in Luhansk and vandal attack on a kiosk owned by Azerbaijanis, has been released by a Luhansk court

Run-ins have become more frequent between Luhansk residents and people from the Caucuses, Central Asia and Africa. While the police deny any racial motivation, those defending the victims are convinced that they were targeted because of their ethnic origin

If, back in March 2010 responsibility for some quite scandalous ministerial appointments could be shared with the Prime Minister, in November 2011 President Yanukovych stands alone. And the burden of responsibility for appointing Anatoly Mohylyov Prime Minister of the Crimea is serious

The Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Mustafa Dzhemiliev has commented to TV 1 + 1 on the appointment by President Yanukovych of Anatoly Mohylyov Prime Minister of the Crimea

There is some evidence that the thugs who on 1 November beat up four foreign students from the Luhansk National University had come from the Kharkiv region.

Police detained at least 50 activists of the rightwing party VO Svoboda on Sunday after they defied a court order banning a rally against Hassidic pilgrims in Uman

The rightwing Svoboda Party is not known for its tolerance and commitment to multiculturalism, so the present “campaign” by the Cherkasy branch is not especially surprising. The reports about the reasons for their actions in the media do not, however, foster understanding themselves

The Spiritual Directorate of the Muslims of the Crimea reports that another Muslim grave has been desecrated. In the village of Korbekul near Alushta the gravestone of the Muslim holy man Aziz Devletli Baba was smashed

A potentially fatal arson attack against foreign students in Sumy is being treated in isolation from the racist captions against foreigners which appeared during the summer

According to www.antifascist.com “two tourists from Great Britain whose skin colour was closer to dark than white were attacked by a group of young people of typical appearance in Lviv.

In the Crimea the local prosecutor’s office has initiated criminal proceedings against the leader of the “Sobol Cossack Community”, Vitaly Khramov for inciting inter-ethnic and inter-faith enmity

Volodymyr Batchaev in his latest article asks whether the hate speech on police websites is merely the result of legal illiteracy, or actual encouragement for the public to discrimination.

One of the two newspapers in the Crimean Tatar language – “Kiyrym” will be published until September on credit and thanks to support from readers and sponsors. The first issue came out on 16 July after a break of almost two months due to the total cut in state funding

“Kiyrym", one of only two Crimean Tatar language papers, is the second in the Crimea to fold since Yanukovych became President, following the closure of “Krymskaya Svitlytsa”, a Ukrainian-language newspaper, last year

According to the Director of the Middle East Research Centre there has been an increase in manifestations of radicalism and intolerance. He says that the situation is worst in the Crimea and eastern regions, however there are also problems in Lviv

The Kyiv Police have classified as hooliganism the incident on 2 April when a Nigerian passenger travelling between Khreschatyk and Arsenalna on the Kyiv metro was beaten up

On Saturday, 2 April, three men beat up a black passenger travelling between Khreschatyk and Arsenalna on the Kyiv metro