• Russia has not complied with more than two thousand verdicts of the European Court of Human Rights

    Russia and Turkey are among the top countries that did not comply with judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. The report – about the results in 2017 – was presented in Strasbourg on Wednesday, April 4 by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CMCE). According to the report, more than 2,000 cases of human rights violations are still unsettled in Russia. In Turkey, there are more than 1,500. In general, the number of ECHR judgments that have not been complied with in 47 …

  • Ukraine and Russia have terminated 44 treaties since 2014

    Since the beginning of 2014, Ukraine and Russia suspended and terminated 44 treaties between the two countries, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine for European integration Olena Zerkal stated. She recalled that prior to 2014, both nations had concluded 451 international treaties.

    “After the beginning of the armed aggression, we started inventory of a legal framework of bilateral relations with Russia. As of April 2018, according to our data, all necessary internal procedures have been carried …

  • Ukraine threatens to detain all vessels leaving the Crimea

    Oleh Slobodyan, the Spokesman for the Ukrainian Border Guard Service told the Obozrevatel.com that the authorities will immediately react to vessels that violate the law of sailing into and out of the Crimea.

    Slobodyan said, "Ukraine's position is unequivocal: Crimea is an illegally occupied part of Ukraine, so law enforcement agencies will immediately react to procedure violations of entry and exit from the occupied territory." He emphasized that Ukraine acts "within the legal framework and …

  • Kyiv proposes swapping 23 Russian prisoners for Ukrainians held captive in Russia

    Kyiv increased the number of Russians offered in exchange for Ukrainian citizens convicted in Russia. The earlier offer was for the release of 20 Russian citizens. Now, Ukraine’s representative in the Humanitarian Subgroup on Donbas [of the Trilateral Contact Group] Iryna Herashchenko voiced the proposal to release 23 Russians, Interfax-Ukraine reports.

    "Those Russians who were detained, in fact, as a result of the war for... participation in the conflict under the guise of so-called "militia" …

  • Russian court orders the deportation of a DPR separatist to Ukraine

    Russia intends to deport to Ukraine Nikolai Tregub, a separatist who fought for the Donetsk People’s Republic, Radio Free Europe reports, citing a judgment issued by the Moscow District Court.

    “Nikolai Tregub was born in 1989 in Zhmerynka, Vinnytsia region [of Ukraine]. There is a wealth of information about him on the Myrotvorets website (an online resource of a Ukrainian center that collects and studies evidence of crimes committed against national security of Ukraine—Ed.). In 2014, Tregub …