News archive on the topic "Freedom House"

Petro Poroshenko held a meeting with the president of the non-governmental organization Freedom House, Michael Abramowitz, a PolitNavimgator correspondent reports. The press service of the AP reports this. It is reported that Petro Poroshenko “expressed gratitude to Freedom House for supporting Ukraine in carrying out democratic reforms and resisting Russian aggression.” In addition, Poroshenko informed Michael Abramowitz about the current situation in Donbass and the way to implement the initiative...

The international non-governmental organization Freedom House, in its report “Far-right extremism as a threat to Ukrainian democracy,” notes an increase since the beginning of 2018 in cases of attacks by far-right nationalists on minorities, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the author of the review, Vyacheslav Likhachev. “In recent months we have seen some negative dynamics. Since the beginning of this year, the number of incidents from...

There is increasingly less freedom of speech in Ukraine, and opinions and political thought are often controlled by violence and intimidation. Matthew Schaaf, director of the Freedom House Representative Office in Ukraine, said this during the conference “Power VS Internet: A Year of Attempts to Restrict the Internet in Ukraine,” PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We observe that in Ukraine there are fewer and fewer platforms for free communication and meetings.…

In Ukraine, the rating of media independence has decreased, which is under pressure from high-ranking officials. The director of the Ukrainian representative office of Freedom House, Matthew Schaaf, said this in an interview with the Kyiv online publication “Apostrophe”, answering a question about the reasons why the new report of his organization for the first time since 2014 recorded a decline in the level of democracy in Ukraine. “We believe that Ukraine has a balance...

Illiberal regimes have become “commonplace” in a number of countries from central Europe to Eurasia. In particular, the political regime in Ukraine is developing in a “negative direction,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Such estimates are provided in the annual study “Nations in Transit” (“Countries in Transit 2018”) by the American non-governmental organization Freedom House. According to the results of the current study, it is noted that in 19 out of 29...

At the end of 2017, Ukraine continues to remain a partially free country. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This is stated in the annual report of the international human rights organization Freedom House, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Freedom House estimates, Ukraine currently remains a “partially free” country, while Crimea retains the status of an “unfree” territory after its illegal occupation...

The alarm is sounding in Kyiv - the American organization for “promoting democracy” Freedom House has been publishing reports with a map of Ukraine without Crimea for the second year in a row. Political strategist Taras Berezovets, who collaborates with Petro Poroshenko’s administration, stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, this pattern excludes any mistake in the actions of human rights defenders. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news in...

Right Sector demands a ban on the activities of Freedom House, as well as a number of other Western organizations in Ukraine. This was stated by PS press secretary Artem Skoropadsky. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “My personal opinion is that all these organizations – Amnesty International, Freedom House and the like – should simply be banned. Let's see what they did...

Blocking Russian social networks in Ukraine is a restriction of freedoms and human rights, but Ukrainians themselves do not value their rights. Human rights activist Zoryan Kis, coordinator of Freedom House projects in Ukraine, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte “Of course, this is a restriction of freedom and human rights to...

The international non-governmental human rights organization Freedom House, in its annual report, noted an increase in the level of freedom of speech in the Ukrainian media. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte Deutsche Welle reports this. In particular, the organization noticed an improvement in the situation with media freedom in Ukraine, where “recent democratic achievements have generally strengthened media freedom.” In the same time…

The National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine refused to lift the ban on the Russian TV channel Dozhd in response to Freedom House accusations of censorship. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte. The corresponding statement is posted on the department’s website. “For the third year, a hybrid war has been waged against Ukraine, one of the components of which is information intervention. Spread of pro-Kremlin propaganda...

The non-governmental organization Freedom House, which studies the state of political and civil liberties, called the ban on the Russian TV channel Dozhd censorship. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was stated by the vice-president of the organization, Robert German. “The state ban on broadcasting the Dozhd channel is censorship, which cuts off Ukrainians’ access to a choice of different points of view. While…

The international “human rights” organization Freedom House said that voting in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in Crimea “was anything but free and fair,” Interfax reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte In a statement, Freedom House Vice President Robert Herman notes that “voting on the territory of Crimea cannot legitimize Russian power on the peninsula.”…