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The widow of murdered journalist Georgy Gongadze has slammed the ruling of the Kyiv Court of Appeal on 20 January 2012 upholding the Pechersky District Court’s ruling of  14 December 2011.  The latter quashed the criminal proceedings against former Presidentt Kuchma in connection with Georgy Gongadze’s murder. The court had cited a Constitutional Court judgement from October 2011which stated that prosecutions could not be based on information received through investigative operations carried…

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Ukraine’s leaders have seldom demonstrated much understanding or respect for the presumption of innocence. That fundamental element of any justice system is in fact, widely ignored in Ukraine with the rot beginning in police press reports and all too often circulated in copy paste mode through the media.

Within hours of a bloody attack on a VIP branch of PrivatBank in Donetsk…

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After today's decision by the Constitutional Court, Ukrainian journalists might face a fine of (at least) 500 non-taxable minimum income or up to 5 years’ imprisonment for the…

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Hearings have begun in the District Administrative Court in Kyiv into a civil suit brought by Ukrainska Pravda journalist Serhiy Leshchenko against the Ministry of Finance.

Serhiy Leshchenko filed the suit over the refusal by the Ministry to provide a copy of its letter of 16 June 2011 addressed to the Cabinet of Ministers regarding…

Ukraine, according to Freedom House, suffered the deepest regression in democracy of any major country during the past two years. It is the second consecutive year that Freedom House marked a decline in political rights and civil liberties in Ukraine.

“Ukraine suffered a major decline due to President Viktor Yanukovych’s moves to crush the political opposition through a variety of anti-democratic tactics, including the prosecution of opposition political leader and former Prime…