• Only one person is serving a sentence for crimes committed against protesters during Maidan

    Only one person is serving a sentence for the so-called "Maidan crimes", as reported by the Head of the department of special investigations of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, Sergiy Gorbatyuk, Radio Liberty writes.

    "At present, we have 50 convictions as the results of the investigations and criminal proceedings. Only two people received a real penalty, and one person is serving his sentence. Charges have been laid against 412 persons, indictments against 258 people are in the …

  • Hungary blocked the NATO-Ukraine Defense Commission

    Despite the requests of Ukraine and the consent of the most influential members of the North Atlantic alliance, Brussels did not confirm the date of the NATO-Ukraine Commission meeting with participation of the ministers of defense, reports the newspaper Evropeyska Pravda with reference to diplomatic sources. The information was later confirmed by the NATO representatives.

    The Ministerial meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission was to be held on February 14 or 15 during the joint meeting of …

  • Ukrainian President signs decree on measures to counter Russian information aggression

    President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree to enact a new decision by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) that includes additional measures to counter information aggression by Russia.

    Decree No. 25/2018 was published on the President's website on February 9, though the measures were marked “for internal use” and not made public.

    The NSDC meeting during which these measures were put under consideration occurred on January 26. 

    On February 5, Poroshenko enacted the NSDC’s …

  • Media: EU revising sanctions against Yanukovych

    The European Union (EU) has begun work to revise sanctions against former Ukrainian officials that are scheduled to expire on March 6. This concerns the fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych in particular, UNIAN reports, citing an EU Council representative.

    "Work on the latest review has begun. As usual, the decision will be made before the expiration of the decision that currently exists," the agency's source noted.

    On March 6, 2014, the European Union imposed sanctions against former …

  • Russia warned Israel against recognizing Holodomor as genocide

    A Russian diplomat warned Israel about approving a proposed bill on the official recognition of the Holodomor in Ukraine as genocide, as indicated in a comment to a local radio station by the Deputy Russian Ambassador to Tel Aviv, Leonid Frolov, Radio Liberty reports.

    "This is not the best time to discuss this proposal ... It will be bad, it will be a wrong step," he said.

    Earlier, a bill to recognize the Ukrainian Holodomor as genocide was filed for consideration by the Israeli parliament ( …