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About the panel ”The Biden-Putin Summit: Outcomes and Implications”
A few days before the first summit between the presidents of the USA and Russia in Switzerland on June 16, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Washington, ran a program paper by Senior Research Fellow Dr. Anatol Lieven. The Institute also organized a webinar to discuss the proposals made by Dr ... Read More
About the panel ”Ending the Conflict in Ukraine: A Negotiated Solution”
On June 15th , the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft held the first webinar, “Ending the Conflict in Ukraine: A Negotiated Solution”. This program paper was published on the Quincy Institute website on June 14th. In the preface to the paper it is said, ”The unresolved conflict between Russia and Ukraine ... Read More
Workers on Strike in the Non-government-controlled part of the Luhansk region
Local sources in the Luhansk region report a strike at a metallurgical plant located in the city of Alchevsk in the non-government-controlled part of the region. Several hundreds of workers have been on strike since April 21. The workers demand that all their salaries of the last three winter months ... Read More
A Rally in honor of SS in Kyiv on April 28
On April 28 in downtown Kyiv a rally was held in honor of the SS Galicia division. According to the Ukrainian media, its participants were grandchildren of SS division Galicia veterans, the Right Sector, Svoboda Party, the ATO Veterans’ Union (veterans of the ongoing war), S14 and Ukrainian Military Honor ... Read More
Follow-up on the case of condemned far-right activist Serhiy Sternenko
Ukraine Alert has followed the case of Serhiy Sternenko, a far-right activist from Odessa convicted for participation in mass disorders in Odesa in May 2014 and kidnapping and torture. Sternenko also streamed his killing of another person in 2019. He headed the Right Sector in Odesa during the Odesa massacre ... Read More
Positive changes are feasible, says Matilda Bogner, the head of the HRMMU
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) operates in the country since March 2014 as the UN Secretary-General’s reaction to the developments, at the invitation of the Government of Ukraine. The HRMMU documents human rights violations and violations of the international humanitarian law, records conflict-related civilian casualties, reports ... Read More
Discord within far-right and pro-government circles of Ukraine over Serhiy Sternenko
On March 20th a large-scale event in support of far-right activist Serhiy Sternenko was held near the office of the President of Ukraine.They were demanding the release of Serhiy Sternenko, sentenced to 7 years and 3 months for abducting and torturing a man in 2015. Sternenko himself and his supporters ... Read More
Ukrainian civil society people are trying to warn against ignoring far-right groups
Ukrainian Marker group has released their thematic report on far-right violence in Ukraine in 2020. The report “Far-Right Confrontation and Violence” tells of the increase in street violence by far-right groups affiliated with the Ukrainian power structures. Marker is a website created by the Far-Right Violence Monitoring Group established ... Read More
