Half an hour after the Kharkiv City Council voted to remove a plaque in memory of the renowned Ukrainian Slavist Yury Shevelyov, three “unidentified individuals” arrived with hammers and axes, and simply smashed the memorial plaque.

The dubious tactics of «anti-paedophile» – often anti-gay - vigilantes from an organization with neo-Nazi links have finally been noticed - and actually condemned - by the police. Less cheeringly, this attention coincides with calls by certain MPs and the Human Rights Ombudsperson for the EU to waive its demand that Ukraine prohibit discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.

Serhiy Pavlichenko and his father recently had their appeals rejected against highly controversial convictions on charges of killing a Kyiv judge Serhiy Zubkov

The musicians taking part in the concert have already played in a synagogue, a Catholic cathedral, a Dominican cathedral without any problems arising. Yet the Orthodox Church doesn’t want to hear of a jazz concert

In Ukraine a professor is facing a possible 15-year-sentence for treason and spying for China, charged over information posted on the Internet. Forget Snowden, Manning or Assange, this is Ukraine where even spying gets turned on its head

Yury Lukanov has investigated a notorious case in which one man – Ivan Nechiporuk - was released after 8 years only after the case when to the European Court of Human Rights and where his supposed accomplice remains in prison

Ukraine’s Constitution mentions indigenous peoples several times, but there is no legal definition for the term nor is it stated which peoples can be considered indigenous

The system introduced by the revised Criminal Procedure Code is very far removed from a normal jury system and any advantages still to be seen

The car of Dmytro Reva’s lawyer and sister, Oksana Tomchuk, was broken into during the early hours of Friday morning. The car window was smashed, and documents pertaining to the defence’s case stolen.

The Ukrainian PEN Centre has issued a statement expressing outrage over the attempts by the Kharkiv local authorities to disrupt the uncovering in Kharkiv of a plaque in memory of the renowned Slavist Yury Shevelyov.

The text below has been sent to EU officials, MEPs and others regarding a case where the prosecutor’s claims cannot conceal the lack of evidence, and with respect to one defendant, the lack of any elements of a crime in the charges

Interestingly while less and less people believe that demonstrations and rallies can help or that they personally can have impact on the authorities,, more are pinning their hopes on civic organizations.

The Conclusions posted below to a report commissioned by the High Commissioner on National Minorities demonstrate the urgency of the issues presently facing the Crimea.

It’s been a tough year for Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina and for their children, forcibly parted from their mothers

Not only has the case against Dmytro Reva involved fabricated evidence and a defamatory film on State-controlled television, but it now transpires that vital evidence in the Dnipropetrovsk bomb trial has “disappeared”

The largest Ukrainian-language newspaper in Ukraine (according to its own website), Express, alleges that the tax authorities have been blocking its work since Tuesday afternoon, and that the work of six enterprises involved in publication are paralyzed

The Prosecutor’s Office is showing reluctance to allow witnesses to be called. Dmytro Reva’s lawyers believe that the prosecution is worried that the witnesses will expose the shocking gaps in the case, in particular deception aimed at concealing the lack of any evidence whatsoever

Almost exactly a week after Dmytro (Dima) Groysman died of a heart attack, aged only 41, a court in Vinnytsa has found no elements of a crime in the last remnant of a criminal prosecution which had been hanging over him for almost 3 years

Over nearly three years Dima Groysman had faced 72 court hearings, had had to defend himself against idiotic charges and live in constant stress given the total unpredictability of the judicial system and of those with ways of influencing it.

On 5 August our colleague, Dmytro (Dima) Groysman died of a heart attack. He was 41.