by Volodymyr Ishchenko, On July 24 the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Oleksandr Turchynov announced the disbanding of the parliamentary group of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) over a ridiculous technicality. The court trial over CPU’s ban as a political party started the same day with the next session of the court scheduled for mid-August. … Continue reading On the Possible Banning of the Communist Party of Ukraine and Its Meaning for Democracy and the Left
