Civic and media organizations are demanding a full investigation into the incident on Thursday night when Luhansk human rights activist and correspondent for Informator.lg.ua, Kostyantyn Reulsky was beaten after he and two journalists were stopped by traffic police officers whom they believe to have been former Berkut officers. Reutsky, Anastasia Stanko from Hromadske Radio and … Continue reading Outrage over police brutality against rights activist and journalists
Donbas Seperatist leaders brand ’Kyiv Junta’ “Miserable Jews”
03.02.15 | Halya Coynash Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Distasteful anti-Semitism demonstrated by Kremlin-backed militant leaders Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky in Donbas on Monday received wide but typically inadequate coverage. The attack made by the leaders of the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics’ on the ‘miserable’ Jews running Ukraine was not proof that … Continue reading Donbas Seperatist leaders brand ’Kyiv Junta’ “Miserable Jews”
Russian woman charged with ‘treason’ for reporting soldiers sent to Ukraine
Halya Coynash Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group After months in which the Russian authorities have tried to conceal information about Russian soldiers fighting and dying in Ukraine, a Smolensk mother of seven is in detention facing charges of treason for trying to divulge this ‘state secret’. Svetlana Davydova is in the Lefortovo Prison in Moscow facing … Continue reading Russian woman charged with ‘treason’ for reporting soldiers sent to Ukraine
Mine-workers voice was heard!
Ukraine Solidarity Campaign had received the following update from PRUP in Dnipropetrovsk. The representatives of participants held a meeting with a head of government Mr. Arseniy Yatsenuk On 28 January 2015, at 14:00 hrs, a meeting of the working group with Mr. Arseniy Yatsenuk was held. Representatives of protest action participants from mining enterprises submitted … Continue reading Mine-workers voice was heard!
PRUP: MINE-WORKERS ARE PICKETING THE CABINET OF MINISTERS
Yesterday Ukraine Solidarity Campaign carried reports on the miners protests from our friends at the NGPU affiliated to KVPU. We have also received direct reports from our friends in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast from PRUP which is affiliated to the Federation of Trade Union (FPU). On 28 January 2015, mine-workers from different parts of Ukraine came … Continue reading PRUP: MINE-WORKERS ARE PICKETING THE CABINET OF MINISTERS
MINERS FROM ACROSS UKRAINE DEMAND NO PIT CLOSURES!
The Ukrainian miners are currently in a major struggle against pit closures with a possible loss of 50,000 jobs! On April 28th Over 1,500 miners picketed the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Among them - the members of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine (NPGU) which is part of the Confederation of Free Trade … Continue reading MINERS FROM ACROSS UKRAINE DEMAND NO PIT CLOSURES!
UKRAINE: THE OLIGARCHIC REBELLION IN THE DONBAS
Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski Zbigniew Kowalewski a prominent Polish socialist and former leader of Solidarnosc in Lodz in 1980-81, he has written widely on Ukrainian history and society. Many of his writings on Ukraine can found online at: Zbigniew Kowalewski. This article was first published in Polish in Le Monde Diplomatique – Edycja polska, No. 12 (106), … Continue reading UKRAINE: THE OLIGARCHIC REBELLION IN THE DONBAS
Ukrainian Left Activist ‘Explains why volunteered to Fight Russian Imperialism’
Hromadske speaks with a member of the Aidar Battalion, Maksym Onopchuk, who was a history teacher and left-activist in Simferopol, Crimea before he fled the peninsula after it was annexed by Russia. (Hromadske.tv is a civil initiative, a joint project of Ukrainian journalists to create a social media media that provides objective and unbiased information … Continue reading Ukrainian Left Activist ‘Explains why volunteered to Fight Russian Imperialism’
Opponent of Russian occupation of Crimea gets 7 years
Свободу Александру Кольченко!/Free Aleksandr Kolchenko! Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russia - Oleg Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko - could receive 20-year sentences Russian secret trial to convict opponents of Crimean annexation One of the four opponents of Russia’s annexation of the Crimea who was accused, together with renowned film director Oleg Sentsov and left-wing activist Oleksandr Kolchenko, of a … Continue reading Opponent of Russian occupation of Crimea gets 7 years
Local leader of Miners’ Union murdered by Separatists in Donbas
The Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine is saddened by the tragic death of their friend and expresses sincere condolences to the relatives of Ivan REZNICHENKO. The body of Ivan Reznichenko was found on 14 January 2015. Ivan was the leader of the Independent Miners Trade Union of Ukraine (NGPU) at the state enterprise “Artemsil” … Continue reading Local leader of Miners’ Union murdered by Separatists in Donbas
Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (Кампанія Солідарності з Україною) 