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BRUSSELS - Ukraine's First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin has categorically denied reports that physical force was used against former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko, adding that she became a subject of investigation under the previous president, Viktor Yuschenko. May 10 at 09:47 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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The regime takes steps towards civil society but turns its back on sufferers of HIV, rendering populist initiatives worthless and failing to stem the tide of popular discontent. Investment in quality of life, or empty populism? May 8 at 20:02 | Victor Tkachuk |
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Director of UEFA Euro 2012 in Ukraine Markiyan Lubkivsky has said that the championship will be held anyway. May 8 at 13:49 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Activists from Ukraine’s nationalist party Bratstvo on May 7 mocked Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin by installing a Pissing Stalin Golden Monument in Kyiv and in the western city Lviv, Unian news agency said. The 1.50-meter wooden sculptures are covered in golden paint. The party also planned to unveil two Pissing Stalin Golden Monuments in Odessa and Dnipropetrovsk. Read more here. May 8 at 08:59 |
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Jailed Ukrainian former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is heartened by international support for her plight and will press on with her hunger strike against her treatment in prison, her daughter told an Austrian newspaper. May 6 at 17:52 | Kyiv Post |
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BRUSSELS – European Commissioner for Sports Androulla Vassiliou has joined the growing list of European politicians who say they will not attend the matches of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship in Ukraine in protest against the prosecution of opposition figures in the country. May 4 at 14:36 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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The European Union announced on Thursday that its leadership would shun Euro 2012 European football championship games held in Ukraine this June-July, marking the strongest sign yet that the former Soviet republic was sliding towards isolation amidst concerns over political persecution. May 4 at 00:05 | Kyiv Post |
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The United States is deeply concerned by the treatment of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and other imprisoned members of her former government. The photographs of Mrs. Tymoshenko released by the Ukrainian Human Rights Ombudsman further call into question the conditions of her confinement. We urge the Ukrainian authorities to ensure that Mrs. Tymoshenko receives immediate medical assistance in an appropriate facility and request that the U.S. Ambassador be given access to her. We continue to call for her release, the release of other members of her former government and the restoration of their full civil and political rights. The statement on the U.S. State Department website can be found here. May 2 at 00:21 |
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BRUSSELS — The chief of the European Union's head office will not go to Ukraine during the European soccer championships in June unless there is a swift improvement in the human rights situation there. Apr 30 at 14:32 | Associated Press |
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The Ukrainian presidential rating is topped by the incumbent, Viktor Yanukovych who is leading over jailed ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko by 8%. Apr 29 at 09:01 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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The date and time stated in a video that was posted on the Internet coincide with the date and time when Serhiy Vlasenko, a defense lawyer for former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, visited a hospital cell in Kyiv’s pre-trial detention center, in which Tymoshenko was imprisoned. Apr 26 at 17:37 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Ukraine is stuck between the competing demands of the European Union and Russia. The EU is demanding from Ukraine more democracy and rule of law before moving closer to signing the association agreement and free trade area with the EU that Ukraine is seeking. The Oct. 28 parliamentary elections in Ukraine are going to be yet another litmus test for the EU on Ukraine's democratic credentials. At the same time, Russia's major concern is to pull Ukraine into its Customs Union, an objective Ukraine's leadership has been so far opposing. The Kyiv Post asked James Sherr, a senior fellow at the Chatham House, a London-based think tank, to assess President Viktor Yanukovych’s options. Sherr says Yanukovych has been good at fighting Russian pressure, but needs to reshuffle his closest circle of advisers and improve conditions domestically to have a chance of winning another term as president in 2015. Apr 26 at 23:56 | Yuriy Onyshkiv |
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The U.S. State Department released its annual human rights reports on each nation in the world on May 24. About Ukraine, the State Department concludes: "The most serious human rights development during the year was the politically motivated detention, trial, and conviction of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, along with selective prosecutions of other senior members of her government." Here is the link to the full report and the first part of the text is also below. Yesterday at 17:05 | Kyiv Post Staff |
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The head of the Regions Party parliamentary faction, Oleksandr Yefremov, has said that the faction's bill on languages provides decision of the language issue following the example of civilized European states, according to the party's press service. Yesterday at 10:32 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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Ukraine will use fighters and helicopters to guard its air space and put security and health services on full alert during the European soccer championship, but officials said on May 22 they could do little to stem a likely flood of prostitutes. May 22 at 19:06 | Reuters |