Contents tagged with trial
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Russian court issues an arrest warrant for the Ukrainian prosecutor on Yanukovych’s case
The prosecutor of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, Ruslan Kravchenko, who is conducting the high treason case against former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych , was arrested in absentia in the Russian Federation for allegedly "unlawfully bringing to justice" an admiral from the Russian Federation, Russian media reported.
Reports say that according to Russia, "Russian citizen Admiral Alexander Vitko was deliberately, unlawfully brought to justice for political reasons in …
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Former Ukrainian President Yanukovych refuses to participate in high treason trial
Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych refuses to participate in the trial for high treason, withdrawing his defenders from. He made that statement on the air during the Time program on the Russian First Channel on Wednesday.
“I do not want to take part in an allegedly adversarial process, whose outcome is predetermined. I decided to withdraw my defenders from the process. There are no doubts about their qualifications but lawyers are powerless in a country where justice has been …
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Second session of Yanukovych high treason trial held in Ukraine
On May 29, at the Obolonskyi District Court in Kyiv, the preparatory session for the trial of fugitive former president Viktor Yanukovych lasted for 9 hours. Currently located in Russia, as of November 28, 2016, Yanukovych has been suspected of high treason, complicity in premeditated actions committed with the goal of changing the state border of Ukraine, and of complicity in the waging of aggressive war. The first court proceedings accusing former president Yanukovych of treason took place on …
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Yanukovych high treason trial begins in Ukraine
On May 4, the first preliminary session charging former president Viktor Yanukovych with high treason took place in Ukraine. Ukrainian media called this case “trial of the century”.
Viktor Yanukovych is being accused of committing crimes according to the criminal code of Ukraine, most notably “High treason”, “Complicity in intentional actions, committed with the goal of changing the territorial borders and state borders of Ukraine,” and “Complicity in aggressive warfare”. The military …
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Klimkin asks EU Diplomats to Attend Savchenko Trial
Pavel Klimkin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, has asked Federica Mogherini, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, to send European diplomats to court when the verdict in Nadia Savchenko’s case, a Ukrainia pilot, is made.
“I asked Federica Mogherini to ensure the diplomats’ presence at a crucial phase of Nadia Savchenko’s trial,” Klimkin wrote on Twitter.
“In light of the fact that the illegal criminal case against Nadia Savchenko is approaching its …
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Donetsk Court Withholds Evidence in Savchenko Case
The Chairman of the Donetsk City Court, Leonid Stepanenko, refused to add witness interrogation reports to the case file during Nadiya Savchenko’s trial, the former Ukrainian pilot who is standing trial in Russia for the deaths of 2 Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine. According to the defense, these documents confirm that there was a skirmish between two military units on the day of the Russian reporters’ deaths, the incident in which Savchenko is charged.
“The firefight wasn’t directed …