On 25 September unknown persons spilt the solution of brilliant green on an agitation tent of V. Yushchenko’s headquarters…

Illegal agitation at a state enterprise – the Kyiv railway station.

The Supreme Rada committee in charge of policy of law considered the request of A. Yarema, a deputy head of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, who brought up the question about the court composition for consideration by local courts of the appeals against decisions, activities or passivity of district election commissions concerning the preparation and conduction of election of the President of Ukraine.

The human rights protector turned to the General Prosecutor’s office with the informational request, but got no answer. Then he turned to court, which satisfied the complaint and obliged the General Prosecutor’s office to respond to the request.

Brief comparative analysis of the law drafts on monitoring and interception of telecommunications and some propositions of the author.

“The public organization “Zeleny svit”, an independent and non-party organization, confirms its adherence to the principles of humanism, non-violence and superiority of right. Being the conscientious citizens of our country, we are worried about the lot of Ukrainian democracy and civil society…”

On 27 August 2004 the seminar for judges of the Chernigiv oblast “Right for free election in international and domestic legislation in the context of election of the President of Ukraine” was held in Chernigiv.

During July the tendency intensified to the use of administrative resource in favor of one of the candidates to the post of President of Ukraine.

The ChPCHRP expresses anxiety about the increase of the facts of exertion of pressure on voters by local state administrations of the Chernigiv oblast with the goal to provide the political support to the only candidate from power during presidential election in Ukraine.

The data of the monitoring, which was conducted in July by the Lugansk branch of the VCU, demonstrate the existence of the essential discrepancy in presentation of political subjects and the amount of elucidation of these subjects. Thus, the situation in the Lugansk oblast does not agree with the principle of equal access of subjects of election to information.

Volodymir Pritula, the head of the Committee for monitoring of the freedom of the press in the Crimea, presented the results of monitoring of two Crimean state editions “Krymskie izvestiya” (the Supreme Rada of the Crimea) and “Krymskaya gazeta” (the Council of Ministers of the Crimea).

All violations of election legislation in the Krivoy Rog are typical for the entire Ukraine…

The first months of the election campaign were characterized with the mass facts of illegal meddling of the organs of state power into the election process and, as a result, violation of the principle of equality of subjects of the election process.

On 13 August the press conference of Oleksandr Zinchenko, a deputy of the Head of the Supreme Rada of Ukraine, head of the election headquarters of “Our Ukraine”, was held in the Kharkov regional headquarters.

The Kharkov group for human rights protection, jointly with the Institute of mass information and the international center against censorship “Article 19”, realizes the monitoring of mass media and election campaign. Here we present the review of the results of monitoring of the beginning of the election campaign.

Numerous violations of elective and other rights and fundamental freedoms of citizens in the course of the election campaign are observed in Ukraine.

In memory of Ukrainians executed in the Solovki special prison and in Sandarmokh (Karelia).

On 30 June the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the all-Ukrainian Association of human rights protecting organizations “Ukrainian Helsinki Union of human rights”, which had been founded by 15 human rights protecting organizations.

The Kharkov Union of soldiers’ mothers (KhUSM) continues the monitoring of the quality of recruiting campaigns.

Main principles of the future law on peaceful assemblies and demonstrations in the context of the European standards on human rights