Human rights activists in Kharkiv have sent an open letter to President Viktor Yanukovych urging him to intervene in the investigations of two alleged suicides in police custody in the past 10 days.
A Ukrainian parliament deputy has quit the opposition party headed by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Dmytro Vetvytskyy today quit the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party and the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) parliament faction of which Batkivshchyna is a member.
Some 100 university students picketed the Ukrainian parliament today to protest a draft law on higher education that could lead to higher tuition fees. Demonstrators say the draft "would kill equal and fair admission to Ukrainian universities." They also say the draft, put together by the ruling Party of Regions parliamentary faction, would force students to cover the cost of tuition themselves.
Earlier this month, the Czech Republic gave political asylum to a former Ukrainian minister wanted at home on charges of abuse of office. One of many top officials from the previous, pro-Western government to have come under investigation since the election of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych last year, Bohdan Danylyshyn says the accusations are part of a drive to stifle opposition in Ukraine.
A second criminal case has been opened in Ukraine against former Crimean Parliament chairman Anatoliy Hrytsenko.
A Ukrainian police sergeant has been fired after he was caught on video insulting the Ukrainian language.
A Ukrainian police sergeant in the Black Sea port of Odesa may face punishment for “insulting the Ukrainian language.” In a video posted on YouTube the officer is seen calling Ukrainian the "cows' language."
Anna Yablonska, a promising Ukrainian playwright, was one of the victims of this week's bombing at Domodedovo airport. Yablonska had arrived in Moscow to pick up a literary prize when she was killed along with 34 other people.
Cowardly. Obsequious. Meaningless. That's how a new report is describing the approach of many Western governments and global institutions toward the world's repressive regimes.
The 20th anniversary of a referendum that restored the Crimean Peninsula's autonomous status was marked in Ukraine today.
One of the oldest Ukrainian-language schools in the eastern city of Donetsk is facing closure, Authorities say the school, in the Petro district, is being shut down for lack of enrollment, but teachers and parents of students are appealing to officials to reverse their decision.
Two blasts occurred simultaneously in the eastern Ukrainian town of Makeevka, in the Donetsk region, but no one was hurt in the explosions. The motive appeared to be extortion.
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