A question mark over whether this marks the end of a scandalously unlawful Order or a game with the mass media being given a main role

You were for me, and doubtless for thousands of people in Ukraine and in the Diaspora – living Ukraine, the embodiment of our principles, our conscience

A call to think soberly about the tasks ahead

The European Court of Human Rights found Ukraine guilty of having violated Mr Lyashko’s right to freedom of speech

Remembering NADIYA SVITLYCHNA

My question, which I will attempt to provide the background for below, is therefore far removed from legal finesse: Put most primitively, how can the country’s legislative body prohibit the Constitutional Court from determining the constitutionality of laws passed on Ukrainian territory where the “Constitution of Ukraine has the highest legal force. Laws and other normative legal acts are adopted on the basis of the Constitution of Ukraine and shall conform to it”

This ruling regarding what information may or may not be provided on medical certificates is a first and could provide a valuable precedent for further cases in defence of privacy

The recent picket organized in Kharkiv against a believed visit by Patriarch Filaret was in breach of Ukrainian law, an affront tothe religious feelings of many worshippers, and a very dangerous precedent

The remains will be laid to rest of 225 people, 80 of whom were children, discovered four years in the crypt of a monastery in Zhovkva in the Lviv region

The well-known dissident and author of "HIstory’s carnival" suggests, and in fascinating detail demonstrates the efficacy of, a carnival method of fighting past and present ills

The analysis points to irregularities in the recent changes in coalition partners and gives a damning assessment both of the results of the "political reform" (constitutional amendments), and of the general level of the country’s parliamentarians

Dina Kaminskaya, lawyer and committed human rights activist, who defended many dissidents in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 87. We join the International Society "Memorial" in expressing our deepest sorrow at her passing.

As so often, a cheering account of what civic organizations are doing to help people with disabilities, and depressing details of how the authorities are failing such people

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

The author, a political prisoner in Soviet times, makes an impassioned plea to President Yushchenko to not remain silent when the rights of simple Ukrainians and Ukraine’s archival heritage are under attack