Maidan

In 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

The 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

We 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.

The 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

Bribing 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.

According 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»»

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

During 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

When 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

Initial plans for wider-scale events to greet the International Remembrance Flame which has already passed through 29 countries were unfortunately hindered by the authorities