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Ukraine's Delegation Leaves OSCE Meeting Over Statements On Table of Contents • Ukraine’s delegation leaves OSCE meeting over statements on ‘Russian Crimea’ • BREAKING NEWS: From Ukrainian jails to freedom in Moscow • BREAKING NEWS: Ukraine-Russia prisoner swap: 70 prisoners released in all • Post-election Ukraine. More of the same or a new human rights agenda? • UK to contribute 100,000 pounds to establishment of criminal court in Hague to deal with MH17 case • Ukraine’s state language law enshrines the lingua franca • Remember Odessa 2nd May 2014 Tragedy • Language law: In anticipation of shake-up in print media market • Ukraine has a Jewish President and a Jewish Prime Minister. What about anti-Semitism? • Opinions about the first round of the presidential election • Police receive more than 2,000 reports of electoral violations on Sunday – Interior Ministry • Observation findings by CVU and OPORA of the Election Day • Zelensky leading in presidential polls, followed by Poroshenko, Hrytsenko, Tymoshenko – RAND poll • Ukrainian official charged in acid attack on activist after outcry • Number of Ukrainians who trust church falls 6% last year - opinion poll Ukraine’s delegation leaves OSCE meeting over statements on ‘Russian Crimea’ Ukrinform (17.09.2019) - https://bit.ly/2kGZGe7 - A delegation from Ukraine has left the OSCE session hall in Warsaw during the discussion of the topic of freedom of speech in protest at statements about "Russian Crimea," according to Crimean Tatar television channel ATR. "The Ukrainian delegation has suspended participation in the working meeting. Consultations are being held with partners on further actions," the statement reads. In this way, the Ukrainian delegation reacted to statements by Crimean propagandists who said during their introduction: "Crimea, Russia," the report said. The editor-in-chief of the propaganda news outlets Krymskaya Gazeta and Krymskiy Zhurnal, Maria Volkonskaya, who came for the OSCE meeting in Warsaw, called the annexed Crimea Russian. After that, her speech at the meeting was interrupted, with reference to international documents. In addition, a speech by Ervin Musayev, the director general of the Millett propaganda channel, was also interrupted at the OSCE meeting as he began to complain about Ukraine's "blockade of Crimea." The Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) of OSCE participating states started in Warsaw on September 16. In particular, delegations discussed human rights protection, the occupation of Crimea, and sanctions against Russia. Statements of Ukraine’s delegation: Opening Statement by H.E. Mr. Sergiy Kyslytsya, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Head of the Delegation of Ukraine. Statement of the Delegation of Ukraine at the Working Session 1 delivered by Valentyn Koval, member of National Council of Ukraine of Television and Radio Broadcasting. Statement of the Delegation of Ukraine at the Working Session 2 delivered by Valentyn Koval, member of National Council of Ukraine of Television and Radio Broadcasting. BREAKING NEWS: From Ukrainian jails to freedom in Moscow List of the 35 prisoners released from Ukrainian jails HRWF (08.09.2019) - Moscow has not yet published the list of 35 people released from Ukrainian jails and transferred to Russia but Human Rights Without Frontiers managed to get such a list from Ukrainska Pravda with some additional corrections from other sources. Twelve are Russians and twenty-three are citizens of Ukraine. Eleven of them were pardoned, two refused to leave Ukraine and one had been transferred to Russia earlier. Victor Ageev, 09/13/1995 Alexander Baranov, 08/11/1983 Aslan Baskhanov, 04/06/1966 Elena Bobovaya, 04/26/1972 Pavel Chernykh, 08/04/1975 Anna Dubenko, 08/18/1982 Stanislav Ezhov, 06/22/1978 Victor Fedorov, 07/18/1969 Ruslan Gadzhiev, 02/10/1973 Vladimir Galich, 01/18/1948 Sergey Gnatiev, 04/13/1988 Denis Khitrov, 04/28/1977 Igor Kimakovsky, 04/28/1972 Olga Kovalis, 08/07/1968 Sergey Kovernik, 02.16.1978 Dmitry Korenovsky, 03/18/1972 Andrey Kostenko, 09/18/1984 Alexey Lazarenko, 10/13/1985 Sergey Lazarev, 05/07/1957 Yuri Lomako, 02/04/1961 Petr Melnichuk, 07/12/1972 Evgeny Mefedov, 05/22/1983 Maxim Odintsov, 04/25/1983 Julia Prosolova, 07/13/1988 Alexander Rakushchin, 03/19/1963 Antonina Rodionova, 09/06/1969 Alexander Sattarov, 12/28/1980 Alexey Sedikov, 10/10/1979 Taras Sinichak, 06.24.1977 Alexander Tarasenko, 07/10/1970 Andrey Tretyakov, 10/18/1973 Vladimir Tsemakh, 04/07/1961 Andrey Vaskovsky, 12/25/1991 Kirill Vyshinsky, 19/02/1967 Arkady Zhidkikh, 11/19/1967 Two prisoners (Ruslan Gadzhiev and Taras Sinichak) refused to be part of the swap and were replaced. Ruslan Gadzhiev, who is listed as being exchanged, refused to leave Ukraine, considering himself innocent, according to Valentin Rybin, a lawyer for Russian citizens who were held in Ukraine. Gadzhiev had been arrested in the Donbass in January 2015. Taras Sinichak is now in Ivano-Frankivsk, where he is being held under house arrest, according to his lawyer Yaroslav Zeykan. On August 19, SBU officers offered to take him to Koncha-Zaspa where other exchange participants were waiting for their departure to Moscow. However, Sinichak refused because he considers himself a citizen of Ukraine, does not admit any guilt and does not want to be extradited to Russia. Taras Sinichak worked in the military sanatorium "Sudak" in Crimea. After the annexation of Crimea, the institution became subordinate to the Ministry of Defense of Russia. Sinichak did not leave Crimea and went on working in the sanatorium. He was arrested in February 2016 when he moved to mainland Ukraine to attend the funeral of a relative. The prosecutor's office regarded this as desertion and high treason. BREAKING NEWS: Ukraine-Russia prisoner swap: 70 prisoners released in all HRWF (07.09.2019) - The prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia has finally taken place this Saturday afternoon but Ukrainian media and “our” media in the West almost only focus on the 35 prisoners arriving in Ukraine and fail to investigate properly about the background of the 35 prisoners claimed by Moscow. The swap has two sides. Who are those 35 people who were in Ukrainian jails? Were they political prisoners? What were they charged with? What is their background? This article will try to bring some light on a number of people who will find a safe haven in Russia. Western journalists are encouraged to further investigate this side of the exchange of prisoners. 35 prisoners in Russia recover their freedom in Ukraine The press service of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has posted a full list of Ukrainians who returned home on September 7, 2019 as part of a prisoner swap between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. See https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/ukrayinci-yaki-povernulisya-na-batkivshinu-7- veresnya-u-ramk-57137 The list includes 11 political prisoners: Roman Sushchenko, Oleh Sentsov, Oleksandr Kolchenko, Volodymyr Balukh, Stanislav Klykh, Mykola Karpiuk, Oleksiy Syzonovych, Pavlo Hryb, Edem Bekirov, Yevhen Panov, and Artur Panov. In addition, 24 Ukrainians sailors captured by the Russian Federation in the Kerch Strait on November 25, 2018 were freed today: - Roman Mokriak, commander of the Berdyansk armored naval boat; - Yuriy Bezyazychny, motorist-electrician; - Andriy Artemenko, senior seaman gunner; - Andriy Eyder, alarm seaman gunner; - Bohdan Holovash, graduate of the Institute of Naval Forces; - Denys Hrytsenko, commander of the 1st Division of the Naval Command Raid Guard Ships; - Vasyl Soroka, captain, was on board of the Berdyansk armored naval boat; - Bohdan Nebylytsia, commander of the Nikopol armored naval boat; - Viacheslav Zinchenko, alarm seaman gunner; - Serhiy Tsybizov, alarm seaman gunner; - Serhiy Popov, deputy commander of the division for electromechanical units – Chief of the electromechanical service of the 1st division of the Naval Command Raid Guard Ships; - Vladyslav Kostyshyn, graduate of the Institute of Naval Forces; - Andriy Oprysko, motorist-electrician of the Vyshhorod armored naval boat; - Adnriy Drach, captain, was on board of the Nikopol armored naval boat; - Oleh Melnychuk, commander of the Yanu Kapu tugboat. - Mykhailo Vlasiuk, motorist-electrician; - Viktor Bespalchenko, seaman gunner; - Volodymyr Tereshchenko, seaman gunner; - Yevhen Semydotsky, foretopman; - Volodymyr Lisoviy, commander of the 31st division of the logistics vessels; - Andriy Shevchenko, Chief Petty Officer of the division; - Volodymyr Varimez, senior radiotelegraph operator of the Smila training boat of the 31st division of the logistics vessels; - Serhiy Chuliba, commander of the division of motorists of the Nova Kakhovka training boat of the 31st division of the logistics vessels; - Yuriy Budzylo, commander of the radio control platoon of the 21st separate company of the naval command. Russian security forces arrested film director Oleh Sentsov in Simferopol on May 10, 2014. Student Oleksandr Kolchenko was captured by Russia in a week. They were charged with preparing terrorist acts. Kolchenko was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years in a high-security penal colony. The Supreme Court of Chechnya in May 2016 sentenced Ukrainian citizens Stanislav Klykh and Mykola Karpiuk to 20 and 22.5 years in prison, respectively, for alleged gang-related activities, murder and attempted murder of Russian military servicemen. The Russian investigation alleged that Klykh and Karpiuk set up groups in Ukraine to participate in fighting against the Russian army for independent Chechnya during the first Chechen war. Pavlo Hryb was just 19 when he was abducted by the FSB from Belarus on August 24, 2017, after going there to meet who he thought was a young woman he had chatted with online and fell in love with. He was tried in Russia on trumped-up "terrorist" charges as investigators claim he instructed an accomplice to set off an explosive device at a Russian schoolyard. Russia's North-Caucasian District Military Court on March 22 sentenced Hryb to six years in a penal colony for allegedly "promoting terrorism." Volodymyr Balukh was detained by Russia's FSB Federal Security Service on December 8, 2016.
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