EditorialsMaidan Alliance: “Third Rome” Becomes Fourth ReichRussian government led by Putin and Medvedev have recently started the military operation against Ge...Raising awareness about Holodomor - Appeal to the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign AffairsWe are asking people in Ukraine, Russia and all countries of the world to help us raise awareness ab...So what does the European Court of Human Rights mean for Ukraine?Put most succinctly, a lot. The Court in Strasbourg has become part of a catchphrase. “I’ll ...“Maidan” Alliance: the police must remain with the peopleThe “Maidan” Alliance is deeply concerned by the events on 24 May around the dismissal of the Pr...The Monitoring must go on20 May ended the first100 days of Nina Karpachova’s tenure as Human Rights Ombudsperson. This is n...Latest weblinksNavigationMore News
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Yevhen Sverstyuk: Opne Letter to Russia's President MedvedevIn your letter to Ukraine’s President Yushchenko you refuse to take part in remembering those killed by Holodomor. This is profoundly regrettable since there could be no more favourable opportunity to express sympathy to the Ukrainian people from the present-day Kremlin and clearly articulate that truth that the Russian people were not implicated in the organization of Holodomor ( categories: )
Trial by Headline / OthersThe Ukrainian version of this text was written as a response to a series of articles about and by skinheads published in the Vinnytsa newspaper “33 kanal”. Despite the paper’s invitation to participate in discussion, it proved unwilling to publish an article which pointed, amongst other things, to total misinformation ( categories: )
Without labelsWe can wait for that old glorious future – after all we never did get to see it. However the texts are infecting people here and now and in my view we’ve waited long enough. In many countries the most effective mechanism for fighting primitive hate speech is public condemnation. The public need to decide whether they want to tolerate attempts to manipulate them and stir up tension and intolerance. ( categories: Articles )
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate recognizes Holodomor as genocideThe Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate [UOC MP], the Most Reverend Voldodymyr has issued a statement about Holodomor in which probably for the first time the Holy Synod of the UOC MP publicly names Holodomor genocide ( categories: )
Injecting political willBribing voters to give their vote for a particular party carries criminal liability, and how that differs from a paid news item commissioned by some politician or other I can’t fathom. Maybe the connection is not so immediate and direct, but the essence is the same. ( categories: Articles )
Punishment without trial to continue for gravely ill former YUKOS Vice President Vasily AleksanianAccording to the Moscow district court judge, "The possibility of choosing a more lenient preventive measure is not in question” Vasily Aleksanian has now been in custody without any conviction for two and a half years»» ( categories: )
Political “Monopoly”The events around and following President Yushchenko’s decree dissolving parliament are reminiscent of the game of “Monopoly”. The country, and those members of the international community who have not yet lost all interest in Ukraine, have been watching politicians openly using and abusing their “assets”, otherwise known as State bodies in their battle to retain, gain or deprive others of power. Most disturbingly, they are equally blunt in their attempts to influence the judiciary ( categories: Articles )
Seizure of human rights organization’s premisesDuring the night from 14-15 October several dozen members of a private security firm burst into the building in Kyiv which the human rights organization Institute “Respublica” has occupied since 1997. They were accompanied by assistants to National Deputy Vasyl Hrytsak. “laureate” of “Thistle of the Year – 2007”, awarded by the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union for systematic violations of human rights ( categories: )
Ministry of Positive ContentWhen one of Ukraine’s legislators suggests fighting negative news at a legislative level, it seems desirable to know what exactly he wants to shield us from ( categories: Articles )
Victims of Holodomor remembered in the Ukrainian Embassy in RussiaInitial plans for wider-scale events to greet the International Remembrance Flame which has already passed through 29 countries were unfortunately hindered by the authorities ( categories: )
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User loginLatest ArticlesWithout labelsWe may sometimes be unsure which of the identical twins in our block we saw on the street but eyebro...Injecting political willMy surge of interest in one of the debates between presidential hopefuls Obama and McCain, that is, ...Political “Monopoly”A recent report revealing the extortionate cost of each law passed by Ukraine’s current parliament...Ministry of Positive ContentTry to imagine it: in response to the world financial crisis, the UK’s Deputy Speaker in Parliamen...Capitalism Poverty and Russification. The ignored interrelationship.All who follow the activities of Ukraine’s capitalists (oligarky) know well some of the results o...Managed memoryIn all the talk about historical memory, one crucial question lacks the brutality it requires. The ...Plus ca change, plus ce le meme chose?An article was published a few days ago in the newspaper “Le Monde” by French “writer and film...Crisis of political genreYou can never step into the same river twice however - forgive me Herodotus - tumbling back into the...Russian Attack on GeorgiaRussian military aggression that has extended far deeper into a Georgian territory since the day one...No false notesMartin Luther King wrote somewhere: “An eye for an eye and you become blind”. In the informatio... |
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