In memory of Andrei Sakharov, who would have turned 100 on 21 May 2021. How would he celebrate his 100th birthday today? On 14 December 1989, Andrei Sakharov died at the age of 68, Muscovites bid farewell. December 1989, it is minus 40 degrees, everything was covered with snow and ice, and I was standing in a queue of people with no end in sight. A young political science student
The justice sector is an area in which no progress has been made, but regression is yet witnessed. Those who participated in the seizure of the state are returning The justice sector is an area in which no progress has been made, but regression is yet witnessed, said the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Moldova Peter Michalko. According to the European
Life on the Demarcation Line: One Man's Fate Always when I approach Stanytsia Luhanska (a Ukrainian village bordering the so-called Luhansk People's Republic), I feel anxiety. Inside, everything shrinks painfully and a sense of dread is combating an overwhelming desire to see my grandparents, to wander the streets I used to walk on as a child, to stop by a flower shop with my grandmother and to buy some fresh
There were imposed a number of exaggerated limitations that had a negative impact on the freedoms and democratic processes. тических процессах. Ombudswoman reports multiple human rights violations and exaggerated limitations in 2020 Multiple human rights violations were committed in the Republic of Moldova last year. There were imposed a number of exaggerated limitations that had a negative impact on the freedoms and democratic processes. The COVID-19 crisis led to the
The pandemic has worsened the global gender gap, and the World Economic Forum predicts it will now take 135.6 years to reach parity, up from about 100 years before the crisis hit. Covid widened the gender gap — it will now take 135 years to close that divide, WEF says The pandemic has worsened the global gender gap, and the World Economic Forum predicts it will now take
ISHR's (Belarus) Young Human Rights Defender School Marks the 1st Anniversary ISHR's (Belarus) Young Human Rights Defender School Marks the 1st Anniversary The Young Human Rights Defender School was opened in Brest by the decree of the Board of the ISHR (Belarus) dated January 25, 2020. A year later, the experiment can be called successful. Author of textbooks on human rights, Professor Ivan Kotlyar took the scientific leadership of the
Today we will talk about how this court is arranged and how it works, as well as about what has changed after the adoption of amendments to the Constitution for Russians who, in defending their rights, have reached or will reach this instance. Supreme authority or legal rudiment? Why is the ECHR needed President of ISHR-Russia, lawyer and expert in European legal history, Vladimir Novitsky in an interview with Radio
Monitoring of the case of Yuri Rossoshanskiy (hearing of January 25, 2021) On January 25, 2021, the Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kiev continued to consider the case of Yuri Rossoshansky on the murder of human rights activist Irina Nozdrovskaya. He is charged with Paragraph 4 of Part 2 of Art. 115 (premeditated murder committed with extreme cruelty) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Recall that on December 29, 2017, it
Monitoring of the litigation in the case of the purchase of diesel fuel by Joint Stock Company "Ukrainian Railway" (hearing of January 26, 2021) On January 26, 2021, a regular hearing was held in the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court in the case of the purchase of diesel fuel by JSC “Ukrainian Railways”. Daniil Mizin, Aleksandr Kulak, Andrey Bondarenko, Oksana Derkach are accused under Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine,
Monitoring of the case of Evgeny Sergeevich Sagaidak (hearing 01.27.2021) On January 27, 2021, in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Zaporozhye, a hearing was held in case No. 331/4277/17 on charges of Evgeny Sergeevich Sagaidak of committing a crime under Part 2 of Art. 187 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, namely, robbery committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons or a person who has previously committed robbery
