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Human rights activists: Ukrainian citizens Karpiuk and Klykh were electric shock tortured in Russia
Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation refuses to open criminal proceedings and consider Ukrainian prisoners Mykola Karpiuk and Stanislav Klykh’s claim on torture. “The principal investigator’s arguments are that Karpiuk himself admitted involvement in the commission of these crimes and did so in the presence of a lawyer, so that his...
Speech of U.S. Ambassador Pyatt at the “Countering Information War in Ukraine” Conference
January 29, 2016 Ukraine Crisis Media Center Kyiv, Ukraine Speech of US Geoffrey R. Pyatt at the “Countering Information War in Ukraine” Conference Let me first of all congratulate UCMC and the NATO folks for putting this event together. It’s extremely timely. The best evidence of that was the press conference yesterday given by the NATO...
U.S. Ambassador Pyatt and Commander of U.S. SpecOps Command Europe visited Ukraine Special Ops Forces at Khmelnitsky
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt joined Maj. Gen. Gregory J. Lengyel, Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR), visited Khmelnytskyi, where U.S. forces from the 10th Special Forces Group are training Ukrainian special operations forces as part of the Joint Multinational Training Group – Ukraine (JMTG-U) During...
Twitter banned hundreds of Ukrainian users because of fake reports made by Russian bots
On December 29, 2015, Twitter began mass block of its users with active pro Ukrainian position who have thousands of followers. The reason was the mass appeals of Russian bots that used the changes to the rules of Twitter. For several days it was blocked several hundreds of Ukrainian accounts in this social network. Among them, many popular with...
How Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin sabotaged the reform process
Halya Coynash (member of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group) for Atlantic Council Viktor Shokin, Ukraine’s prosecutor general, was upbeat in his New Year’s message to colleagues. While “2015 was a difficult and responsible year for us all,” he wrote, we “carried out unprecedented reform and overhaul of...
New OSCE Chairman is satisfied with the ceasefire in Donbas while 3 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the first two days of the new year
New OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier is satisfied with the ceasefire in Donbas and hopes for further development. “It gives hope that the parties to the conflict will discuss other difficult steps that yet have to be made to fully implement the Minsk Agreements, to find constructive solutions,...
Russian soldiers of 9th motor-rifle regiment of first army corps of Russian Federation Armed Forces captured Kominternove
On December 22 the 9th motor-rifle regiment of the first army corps of the Russian Federation Armed Forces seized Kominternove located in the “grey zone” supported by armored vehicles and an 82-mm mortar unit. They took hold of the western outskirts and started installing engineering equipment and fortifications as well as started mining the...
‘Does Ukraine need nationalism’ – discussion with Anne Applebaum
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American and Polish journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. The discussion took place October 27, 2015 at the America House in Kyiv. Event was moderated by Professor of Political Science University of...
Russian war crimes in Eastern Ukraine – 2014. Report by Polish Deputy
Polish parliamentarian Małgorzata Gosiewska of Poland’s Law and Justice Party published a report titled “Russian War Crimes in Eastern Ukraine in 2014.” This report describes war crimes in the meaning of international law committed in eastern and southern Ukraine by soldiers and officials of the Russian Federation and by the pro-Russian...
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