On February 23 Ukrainian activist Serhiy Sternenko got 7,3-year-long prison sentence. The Odessa Primorsky district court also ruled confisction of 50% of his property as an additional penalty. Who and what is Serhiy Sternenko? Serhiy Sternenko is a far-right Ukrainian politician who is often referred to as an active participant ... Read More

On January 21 the Court of Justice of Milan released the full text of the ruling inherent to the verdict of acquittal of Vitaly Markiv who was released on November 3, 2020. The document is a confirmation that the prosecutor of Pavia and the first-instance court made no mistakes in ... Read More

The first month of 2021 has brought various reports indicating the continuation of the long-term trend of radical far-right nationalists of Ukraine trying to expand their sphere of influence, not only in Ukraine but also abroad. On January 10 Azov regiment issued an official statement in retaliation to the recent ... Read More

The seventh year of war hostilities in Donbass is even more complicated due to the COVID-19 crisis, and so it is even more difficult to obtain information from the non-government-controlled areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.   To get the information necessary for the analysis, we have to rely ... Read More

Reports keep pouring in that the extreme far-right/neo-Nazi ideology is appeased by the political and media circles of Ukrainian society despite all attempts to warn about their danger by reliable research groups.   On January 1, 2021 there were rallies and marches held in memory of Stepan Bandera, an ideologist ... Read More

Ukraine has launched a new round of lobbying for a new plan concerning the implementation of Minsk Agreements. It is presented in two interviews with the leaders of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG (the Trileteral Contact Group) – Leonid Kravchuk and Oleksiy Reznikov.   The practical steps proposed by ... Read More

Numerous reports are coming in regarding a sharp increase in ceasefire violations along the contact line in Donbass. The civilian infrastructure regularly becomes the epicenter of violations. Since the decision to strengthen the ceasefire was taken on July 22, 2020, the OSCE SMM still registers violations amounting to 4 digit ... Read More

On the night of October 17–18, an attack on two Bratslav Hasidim aged 15 and 17 took place in the city of Uman, Ukraine. The older was wounded in the face with a knife, the younger managed to escape. There was no conflict before the attack. Uman is the city ... Read More