Detailed Report on Human Rights Violations in Ukraine: 2014-2018
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard The report on the observance of political and civil rights and freedoms was prepared by the Ukrainian human rights…
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A Law That Legalises “Church Raiding” Entered into Force in Ukraine
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 15:26:0931/01/2019 uspishna-varta.com On January 31st in Ukraine law No. 2673-VIII “On the introduction of amendments to some laws of…
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“C14” Nazis Ganged up on a Local Entrepreneur After He Criticised Both the War in Donbass and the UAF on Facebook
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 11:55:39 25/10/2018 Uspishna Varta “Activists” from the “C14“ group forced the managing director of the “M17” capital art space Robert Chuprikov to apologise…
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Interview with the Ukrainian Political Prisoner and Journalist Kirill Vyshinsky
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 20:10:0913/12/2018 uspishna-varta.com On December 11th the next hearing concerning the case of the editor-in-chief of RIA “Novosti Ukraine” Kirill…
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Review of Civil and Political Rights in Ukraine: 26 November-2 December 2018
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…
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The Ukrainian Court Released the Journalist Pavel Volkov After Keeping Him Behind Bars for More Than a Year
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…
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Review of Civil and Political Rights in Ukraine: 19-25 November 2018
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…
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The SBU Started to Summon Priests of the Moscow Patriarchate “for a Conversation”
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 16:20:01 20/11/2018 uspishna-varta.com The situation with the process of granting autocephaly to a Ukrainian local church is heating up….
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“Combatting Separatism”: How the Kiev Regime Suppressed Independent Media in 2018
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…
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Ukrainian 2019 Presidential Election: How the First Round Happened
March 31st in Ukraine was the day that a new president was elected. Ukrainians had to choose one of 39 candidates. Initially, there were 44 candidates,…
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Civil and Political Rights in Ukraine: December 3rd-9th 2018
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 16:10:0910/12/2018 uspishna-varta.com FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AND RELIGION On 3 December the SBU and the National Police conducted 8 searches…
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Jailed Ukrainian Entrepreneur Andrey Tatarintsev Is Still Not Being Given the Medical Care He Needs
On October 29th 2019 a court hearing was held in the Kuybishevsky District Court of the Zaporozhye region concerning the case of the entrepreneur Andrey Tatarintsev,…
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Ukrainian Radicals From “C14” Attacked the Deputy Leader of an Opposition Party
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 14:50:49 06/07/2018 Uspishna Varta Activists from the ultra-right “C14“ group attacked the participants of a meeting organised by regional representatives…
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Ukrainian Deputies Want to Imprison Journalists for 5 Years for “Slander”
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 13:01:29 27/11/2018 uspishna-varta.com On November 20 draft law No. 9306 featuring amendments to the Criminal and Criminal Procedural Codes…
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Lvov “OUN” Nazis Created a Hit List Consisting of Local Human Rights Activists and Journalists
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 15:35:03 06/08/2018 vesti-ukr.com Lvov activists from the local branch of the voluntary movement “OUN” [a pro-Bandera bandit formation –…
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The Pre-Trial Investigation Against Kirill Vyshinsky Has Been Completed
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 15:32:0917/01/2019 uspishna-varta.com On January 10th the examination as a part of the pre-trial legal investigation into the editor-in-chief of…
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Kirill Vyshinsky: “The Absence of a Second Point of View Is the Main Law of Effective Propaganda”
May 15th marked a year since the moment that the editor-in-chief of RIA “Novosti Ukraine” Kirill Vyshinsky was detained – the journalist has spent a year…
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“I Am Ready to Be Summoned by the SBU”: Priests of the Moscow Patriarchate Launched a Flash Mob
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 17:30:0910/12/2018 kp.ru/uspishna varta Over the past few weeks Ukraine as a state has intensified its attacks against the Ukrainian…
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The Kharkov Regional Council Deprived the Russian Language of Its Regional Status
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 17:56:09 14/12/2018 uspishna-varta.com On December 6th the Kharkov regional council during the regular session cancelled the decision from August…
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Ukrainian Lawyers Described the Technology of Mass Repression in Ukraine
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 17:20:35 23/01/2018 novorossia.su The association of Ukrainian lawyers “Uspishna Varta” published the scheme according to which the SBU carries out…
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The Case of 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…
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Odessa Massacre Scapegoat Sergey Dolzhenkov Speaks About His Time in a Ukrainian Jail
The inhabitant of Odessa Sergey Dolzhenkov, along with Evgeny Mefedov, spent in total more than 5 years in a pre-trial detention center. In the beginning they…
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The “Russian-Speaking Cultural Product” Was Banned in the Zhytomyr region
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 17:05:48 27/10/2018 uspishna-varta.com On the territory of the Zhytomyr region, following the example of Lvov, a moratorium on the…
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Poroshenko’s Campaign Speech in Zhytomyr Was Marred by Heckling “Azov” Nazis
After being literally pushed out of Cherkassy by Arsen Avakov’s “National Corpus” (the political spin-off project of “Azov”) nazi militants, on March 11th Petro Poroshenko decided…
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Set on Fire and Blown Up: The Conditions of Work of the Russian Cultural Center in Lvov
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 19:58:0919/12/2018 uspishna-varta.com The coordinator of the “Uspishna Varta” human rights platform in the Lvov region Galina Chaika communicated with the…
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Poroshenko’s Martial Law Takes Aim at the Human Rights of Ukrainians
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 15:02:09 28/11/2018 uspishna-varta.com Human rights activists are concerned about the risk of martial law being used by the authorities…
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Political Prisoner Pavel Volkov: Hundreds of Innocent People Are in Prison in Ukraine Because of Politics
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…
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Moscow Patriarchate Priests in Four Cities of Ukraine Were Searched by the SBU
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 15:10:09 04/12/2018 uspishna-varta.com On December 3rd employees of the SBU and the National Police carried out 8 searches in…
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The Ukrainian Court of Appeal Begun Consideration of the Case of Political Prisoners Dmitry Vasilets & Evgeny Timonin
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 19:13:48 24/01/2018 Uspishna Varta [button color=”white” size=”big” alignment=”center” rel=”follow” openin=”newwindow” url=”https://www.stalkerzone.org/?s=vasilets”]Click here for more information about Dmitry Vasilets and…
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The Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office Refuses to Investigate the Illegal Detention and Torture of the Donetsk Resident Nikolay Sidorenko
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 23:20:09 21/11/2018 uspishna-varta.com On November 20th the Kramatorsk City Court held a hearing with Nikolay Sidorenko, who is accused…
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Ukrainian Nationalists Tagged the Entranceways of “Separatists” Living in UAF-Occupied Donbass
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 12:26:3022/02/2019 uspishna-varta.com Unknown persons started to simultaneously graffiti building entrances in several cities of the Donetsk region [the territory…
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Kiev’s Kangaroo Court Continues to Drag out the Trial of the Ukrainian Journalist Pavel Volkov
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…
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Political and Civil Rights in Ukraine: 21st-27th January 2019
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 16:55:0128/01/2019 uspishna-varta.com In 2018, the trends in systematic violations of political and civil rights and freedoms persisted in Ukraine….
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Ukrainian Nazis From “C14” Attacked the Chairman of an Electoral Commission
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 16:22:4422/02/2019 uspishna-varta.com The work of district election commission No. 24 in the city of Dneper was disrupted under the…
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The SBU Raided the Apartment of the Ukrainian Human Rights Activist Elena Berezhnaya
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 19:40:19 06/11/2018 uspishna-varta.com On November 6 the Security Service of Ukraine carried out searches in the apartment of the…
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Ukrainian Political Prisoner Stanislav Ezhov: “During the First Six Months of My Stay in Jail, I Have Changed Cells 11 Times”
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 15:15:49 19/10/2018 uspishna-varta.com Stanislav Ezhov, the translator of the prime Minister Vladimir Groisman, was detained on December 20th, 2017…
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Ukrainian Nazis from “C14” Disrupted the Meeting of the Committee for the Protection of Lawyers’ Rights
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 16:37:39 01/08/2018 uspishna-varta.com On July 31st representatives of far-right radical “C14” group led by Evgeny Karas stormed the premises of the…
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The SBU Searched the Residence of the Abbot of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 14:46:09 30/11/2018 uspishna-varta.com In the morning of November 30th, SBU specialists started to search the place of residence of…
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The Lvov City Council Decided to End Financing for the Lvov Organisation of WW2 Veterans
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 18:37:09 23/11/2018 uspishna-varta.com The other day the Lvov City Council refused to finance the activity of the public organisation…
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Ukrainian Radicals Attacked a Journalist and Clashed with the Police Outside the Interior Ministry
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 14:14:22 10/10/2018 ria.ru Clashes between law enforcement bodies and members of the nationalist “C14” organisation took place outside the building of…
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Persecuted Moscow Patriarchate Priests: The SBU Tries to Intimidate Us Into Supporting Autocephaly
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 16:45:09 06/12/2018 uspishna-varta.com On December 5th 14 priests of the Rovno and Sarny dioceses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church…
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The Ukrainian Activist Oleg Litvinenko Was Released From Jail
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 17:50:0909/01/2019 uspishna-varta.com On January 2nd 2019 the Kamenka-Bugsky district court of the Lvov region sentenced the public activist Oleg…
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Draft Law No. 9068 – Kiev’s New Tool to Put Pressure on Independent Media
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 01:09:45 27/09/2018 uspishna-varta.com A bill that has already been registered in the Verkhovna Rada, which gives the authorities considerable tools…
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The Kiev Junta’s Imposition of Sanctions on the “112” and “NewsOne” TV Channels Violates the Constitution of Ukraine
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 19:59:38 04/10/2018 uspishna-varta.com On Thursday, October 4th, the Verkhovna Rada voted to submit draft resolution No. 9157 “On approval…
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A Schismatic “Chaplain” Complained to the SBU After Moscow Patriarchate Believers Rallied Around the Canonical Church
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 17:45:0108/02/2019 uspishna-varta.com In Donbass the fight for orthodox parishioners continues. The representative of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU)…
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Riots in the Center of Kiev – Banderists Stormed the Prosecutor General’s Office
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 13:30:01 17/09/2018 politnavigator.net In Kiev outside the walls of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine the next “Maidan” [a…
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The Editor-In-Chief of a Local Vinnytsia News Channel Was Fired for Producing a Neutral Story About the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 12:02:2018/01/2019 uspishna-varta.com On January 17th in Vinnytsia the managing director of the regional TV channel “UA: Vinnytsia” was fired,…
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Ukrainian Nationalists Exercised Mob Justice Against a Man in Kiev
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 00:08:0309/02/2019 uspishna-varta.com In Kiev on Maidan people in military uniforms taped a person to a post using adhesive tape…
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Ukrainian Radicals From the “C14” Neo-Nazi Group Tried to Disrupt a Peaceful Gathering of Veterans
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 19:02:0111/01/2019 uspishna-varta.com On January 11th in Kiev “activists” from “C14“, the Kiev city union of ATO veterans, and the…
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Voter Bribery Schemes Start to Plague Ukraine’s Presidential Elections
Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 15:54:4422/02/2019 uspishna-varta.com On February 21st the Security Service of Ukraine carried out more than 50 searches in various regions…
