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In connection with the NATO summit scheduled for the end of this year, Putin’s government has intensified its disinformation campaign against its former imperial possession because it cannot come to terms with the reality of Ukrainian independence.

Why do we tolerate untruth in the media? After all the most marvellous journalist initiatives against paid news items and all discussion around information wars are meaningless without one vital component - outrage at being conned and treated like idiots.

We are posting here the apology which the Daily Telegraph issued over their misleading report of 22 April and are extremely grateful to the UK Press Complaints Commission for their kind assistance in resolving this dispute.

The Aarhus Convention reads like a response to Chernobyl. It is after all about the right to know and to have a say in what immediately concerns us. That its provisions must be observed is at once staggeringly obvious and a point the Ukrainian authorities seem gallingly reluctant to understand

The Third Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention took place in Riga earlier this month. It found that Ukraine had not demonstrated its compliance with an international agreement which is of vital importance to all of us

The Civic Assembly of Ukraine is calling on the country’s leaders to put an end to manipulative political intrigue and self-interest over constitutional reform.

During the last week in what appears to be a well-coordinated Russian plan, anti-Ukrainian articles have appeared in the European press explaining Ukraine should not be in NATO or the EU. But, instead of arguments based on say, the high level of corruption in Ukraine, or that the old neo-soviet russophile elite is still all too powerful despite the Orange Revolution and is thereby preventing the implementation of democratic reforms, authors use old Russian-imperial ideas in fallacious arguments.

Open Appeal over numerous human rights infringements in the work of the State Department for the Execution of Sentences

Yes, the system is flawed and needs changing. However, Maidan convinced the world of Ukraine’s unequivocal choice - democracy. What nobody is convinced about is that Ukraine’s politicians have learned their lessons. Perhaps it’s time we teach them? Appealing to conscience is undoubtedly correct however this should not preclude looking for other forms of leverage (Reflections on the article "Moral Holodomor")

The authors consider that the Third Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention has all grounds to conclude that Ukraine is failing to implement its commitments with regard to this vital agreement on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters