Human rights activists have FINALLY received an honest response from a state body. Congratulations due to the Ministry of Justice, but all the more reason to continue demanding the truth and a guarantee that no other asylum seekers will face deportation

An impassioned reminder to us all about those who came out onto Maidan in Soviet times and who, with their courage and refusal to be cowered, "created a civic society and laid the foundations for independence"

Among other complaints, they claim that the Russian authorities violated the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms by not carrying out a proper investigation

A law passed in the last few days, overruling a Presidential veto, provides even more financial gain for state deputies, and widens the gulf between their salaries and those of other state sector workers still further.

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

The mass protest in Minsk against rigged elections through the eyes of one of the activists on October Square now facing persecution. Help her and Belarus by letting her voice be heard!

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

Ukrainian human rights activists call on Belarus to stop the arrests and crushing of opposition and the attack on the last legal human rights organization in the country

An expanded account of the recent decision by the Chief Military Prosecutor of the Russian Federation to both close the Russian investigation into the Katyń Massacre and to deny that those murdered were victims of political repression

More on the suffocating effect of the law restricting ’political campaigning"

The present pre-election campaign suggest a downside to unlimited freedom of expression

Another version of events from Ukrainian official sources on the recent deportation of Uzbek asylum seekers

A critical analysis of the various and all inept ways the Ukrainian authorities are still continuing to refuse to accept responsibility for their grave violation of human rights in deporting Uzbek asylum seekers.

Ironically electoral legislation perhaps intended to avoid some of the abuses under the previous regime has led to a conflict of rights and, increasingly, to worrying restrictions on the right to freedom of expression and the right of voters to receive information of public significance

The full Resolution on the suit brought by Natalya Vitrenko against the Minister of Internal Affairs, Yury Lutsenko, alleging involvement in pre-election campaigning

The "arguments" provided by Russia’s Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office dishonour the memory of the 22 000 Polish victims of this terrible crime

Open letter and appeal from Uzbek political refugees in Ukraine

The pressing questions of Ukrainian and international human rights organizations remain, however, unanswered

In the absence of any adequate response from official figures, a call on civic organizations to take the initiative in investigating the recent deportation of asylum seekers and ensuring it never happens again

While nobody is disputing the fact of pre-election campaigning, questions are sometimes raised about the motives of those seeking the suspension of offending media outlets