Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 21:40:0921/01/2019 vesti-ukr.com Today, on January 21st 2019, a regular court hearing concerning the case of the Zaporozhye journalist and…
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 01:40:12 02/08/2018 ria.ru In Ukraine the trial of the Zaporozhye journalist Pavel Volkov, accused of making appeals to change…
The Ukrainian state already seemed to have released the political prisoner from Zaporozhye Pavel Volkov. But no: on February 25th 2020 – cassation in the Supreme…
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 01:22:49 11/10/2018 uspishna-varta.com September 27th marked exactly a year since the Ukrainian journalist Pavel Volkov was planted in a…
The court rejected the cassation appeal of the prosecutor against the acquittal of the Zaporozhye journalist Pavel Volkov, who was accused of “aiding terrorists”. The verdict…
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 14:50:38 25/10/2018 uspishna-varta.com The court dismissed the motion of the prosecutor to extend the measure of restraint imposed on…
The Shevchenkovsky district court of Zaporozhye acquitted the journalist Pavel Volkov, who was accused of committing deliberate actions for the purpose of changing the boundaries of…
On February 26th 2019, after a month break, a hearing was held on the fabricated case of the Zaporozhye journalist and prisoner of conscience Pavel Volkov,…
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 20:35:33 26/09/2018 uspishna-varta.com Pavel Volkov is a journalist and blogger who was born in 1984 in Zaporozhye. His last…
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 00:25:19 06/11/2018 ukraina.ru The Zaporozhye journalist Pavel Volkov, who was arrested according to a pretext that was invented by…
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 20:50:02 28/11/2018 uspishna-varta.com On November 27 hearings on the case of the journalist Pavel Volkov, who spent over a…
On the website of the German Bundestag a curious document called “Intervention in the zone of civil war: the role of Russia in the conflict in…
Saturday, earlier morning of April 4th, 2015. On the streets of Zaporozhye its damp and grey, cold drops fall from the hazy sky. Vitaly grew up…
Last week, on December 10th, Human Rights Day, a new inter-parliamentary commission on human rights was established in Berlin. The organisation was initiated by Waldemar Herdt,…
After the new team came to power, i.e. people close to President Zelensky, many expected that the state security system would come to order and that…
Ukrainian searchers who continue to cooperate with searchers from Russia. And it is a miracle, if we take into account that the war continues in Donbass,…
On September 16th 2017 a bus filled with passengers was travelling along route No. 76 to Zaporozhye. As usual, it stopped at the “Dneproelektro Institute” stop…
The other day the well-known Ukrainian journalist Pavel Volkov, who served a year and a half in jail in Ukraine for defending the Russian language, gave…
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 20:01:29 11/09/2018 uspishna-varta.com/strana.ua/tass.ru On September 10th the first conference on human rights and democracy in Europe “The Human Dimension Implementation…
At the latest court session concerning the case of Lugansk businessman Andrey Tatarintsev, who has been held in custody for almost 3.5 years, the trial of…
Document translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard According to the results of monitoring in April-June 2018, the human rights platform “Uspishna Varta“ recorded 56 violations…
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 20:17:02 23/11/2018 uspishna-varta.com The decisions made by the Ukrainian parliament over the last five years aim to divide society and…
According to the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), 33% of Ukrainian citizens are convinced that the state should ensure that Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine have…
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 13:34:0914/01/2019 uspishna-varta.com The administrative pressure that is being put on the clergy and parishioners of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox…
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 00:55:1917/02/2019 p-control.com.ua (by Pavel Volkov) Persecution in Ukraine of oppositional politicians, journalists, and public figures aren’t surprising any more….
Ukrainian political prisoner, perhaps, with the most touching story, athlete, and former champion of Ukraine in taekwondo Darya Mastikasheva gave an interview to “ukraina.ru” directly from…
The narrow and not too well-lit corridors of the Kommunarsky Court of Zaporozhye is full of people. When you go there, say for work, you are…
The Ukrainian government is not able to give an honest assessment of the facts of nationalists attacking media representatives. Numerous threats made by “National Corpus“ to…
In the summer of 2020, the factor of right-wing radical groups in Ukraine sharply escalated. If you pay attention to the outbursts of aggression of “National…
In the current Ukrainian government, there is a two-headed Hydra – the so-called “Poroshenko bots” (nationalists, supporters of the course of former President Poroshenko) and “Sorosites”…
The European Parliament held hearings on the fate of the Russian language and Russian-speaking media in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine, and they showed that Ukraine…
The IMF presented the report “World Economic Outlook for 2020“. In a nutshell, its meaning boils down to the fact that the coronavirus epidemic has ruined…
Translated by Ollie Richardson 11:30:12 30/09/2017 glavnovosti.com The Security Service of Ukraine detained the blogger Pavel Volkov from Zaporizhia. He is suspected of separatism and cooperating…
I don’t even know what to say. This is the sentence of post-Maiden Ukraine and, by and large, the sentence of a new government that pretends…
Journalists of the TV channel “Kievan Rus. KRT” held on July 30th a protest against censorship and the offensive on freedom of speech at the building…
Is Putin interfering in American democracy? Investigation of Bombus “Bombus” publishes an analytical review of one of the world’s main topic – “Russian interference” in the…
On July 9th 2020, the head of the SBU Zaporozhye press service Sergey Levchenko wrote that the SBU “stopped the activities of a group of separatists…
Some people celebrate the independence day of Ukraine every year in happy ecstasy, while others perceive this day as a personal and social tragedy that has…
Last night, an employee of the “Antonov” state enterprise, Evgeny Sova, was attacked by three nazi militants in Kiev. After a shift at the aircraft factory,…
The Ukrainian media zealously rushed to cover the miners’ strikes in the non-controlled territory of the Lugansk region who have not been paid for several months….
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 11:50:09 03/12/2018 uspishna-varta.com MARTIAL LAW IN UKRAINE In accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On the approval of the…
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 18:02:09 26/11/2018 uspishna-varta.com On the night of 25 November, 2018 President Petro Poroshenko during a meeting of the National…
From 6 p.m. to this very hour [10 p.m. – ed], cars parked at the office of the Zaporozhye organisation “Victory Regiment”, which has been organising…
The first meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Commission on Human Rights concerning the peace process in Donbass is to be held in Minsk in spring 2020 Ideological…
On July 15th, the SBU reported that a resident of Cherkassy and member of the Union of Writers of Russia, by order of curators from Russia,…
In the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine the SBU summoned 73 members of Yuliya Tymoshenko’s headquarters for interrogation concerning the accusations of her party using a voter…
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 17:54:0925/01/2019 uspishna-varta.com Despite publicly declaring its commitment to international law and European standards, Ukraine’s state policy in 2018 was…
On August 20th, the Kherson SBU detained a 52-year-old Russian language teacher, Tatiyana Kuzmich. The press service of the SBU reported that the woman in 2015…
The triumph and agony of Ukrainian oligarchs The time of the Ukrainian oligarchs has passed. They supported the coup on Maidan in the hope that a…
Darya Mastikasheva. A young woman with sad eyes. She has been in a pre-trial detention center in Dnepropetrovsk without an alternative for already 2 years. And…
A sharp deterioration in the economic situation has made summer vacations problematic for Ukrainian citizens. Especially for children. With an average salary, according to official statistics,…