Ukraine

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has passed the law on the Ukrainian language. Its preparation lasted two months. MPs have adopted law No. 5670-d “On ensuring the functioning of Ukrainian as a state language.” They had been considering amendments to the draft law for the second reading since February 28. 278 parliamentarians have voted for the law. Before the voting, […]

One week after the first election round the voters’ attention got caught by billboards and campaign brochures seeing the actual President and one of the two candidates in the second ballot Petro Poroshenko juxtaposed against the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The image also bears the phrase: “April 21 – the decisive choice.” What’s wrong with the billboards? […]

Digital rights are at the center of the current edition of the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA taking place in Kyiv, Ukraine between March 22 and 30. “In 2012 a new term was coined – ‘digital rights’. Back then the Human Rights Council of the United Nations adopted a resolution stating that the same rights that people […]

Russian special services are going to use malware in order to “correct” the results of Ukrainian presidential election. According to the IR group, Russian special services are currently preparing a series of cyber attacks aimed at destabilizing the social and political situation in Ukraine during the presidential campaign and in the post-election period, with subsequent preparations for the parliamentary elections. […]

Russian President Putin personally led the seizure of the Ukrainian Crimea. Sergey Aksenov, head of the Crimea occupational government, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had personally guided the seizure of the peninsula. Aksenov said this during the festivities dedicated to the 5th anniversary of Crimea annexation. According to him, Crimea became a “part of the Russian Federation” thanks to […]

More than 100 years ago, on March 17, 1917, the Ukrainian Central Rada (UCR) was founded in Kyiv. It was the first representative body of the Ukrainian people in modern history and the first parliament after the proclamation of the Ukrainian People’s Republic. The overthrow of the Russian monarchy prompted the establishment of UCR. After that, councils of workers’ and […]

Court opens proceeding after lawyer files a claim to dismiss Interior Minister Avakov due to insufficient language skills. The District Administrative Court of Kyiv opened a proceeding after a claim was filed to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Hroysman and the Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. The claim addresses the fact of non-submission of the request by the Prime Minister […]

The Revolution of Dignity ended five years ago, but new heroes still join the Heavenly Hundred. People suffer from terrible illnesses and die. Doctors are at a loss, and individual tests show significantly exceeded rates of heavy metals in the patients’ bodies. What are the symptoms Serhiy Samulyak was one of the participants of the Revolution of Dignity. On the […]

It was breaking news when the CEC announced that they were not able buy ballot boxes for transporting ballots between the precinct election commissions and the constituency election commission. Oleksandr Dubynskyi comments on this issue and on possible attempts to rig the presidential election on the part of the current government. According to the CEC, the ballots will be transported […]

A week ago BIHUS.info published the first and second parts of investigation on corruption in Ukraine defense sector. They told about a trio of daring young men who embezzled at least 250 million of Ukroboronprom state-owned concern. One of those “boys” was Ihor Hladkovskyi, a 22-year-old son of the Deputy to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council […]

So-called transit server for the Presidential Elections 2019 had been created by SBU, MP and Vice-Chairman of the Batkivshchyna Party Serhiy Sobolev says. Transit server would receive the results of voting before the Central Election Commission could see them. Sobolev stated this at a press conference in the Lviv press club. – We have information that SBU created a unit, […]

The Bohdan Corporation, which belongs to the former first deputy to the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleh Hladkovskyi, received half a billion hryvnias under secret contracts for the purchase of trucks and ambulances made on Chinese chassis. “Bohdan” received 375 million hryvnias from the state budget at the end of December last year. Almost one hundred […]