Tag: Venice Commission
On 11 March, the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (VC) ruled that Russia must change its law on the Constitutional Court as it relates to allowing the Court to decide on the unenforceability of a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgement…
In May 2015, the Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva published a major study on the state of corruption in Ukraine. They worked on this 180-page document from September 2013 until January 2014, based on material from previous years, and it is in many respects already outdated because of the drastically altered political situation in the country after the overthrow of the government. However, the study’s authors worked hard to identify the reasons why Ukraine has become the utterly corrupt state that it is today, and the investigators also looked into the history of how corrupt ties have developed in Ukrainian society…
…The US supports the putschists’ plans to hold the election on May 25. It looks like an attempt to create a small puppet state on Ukrainian soil. Ignored by a large part of potential voters, the winner will become the president of only western and partially central parts of the country with Donbass and south-eastern regions excluded. Talking about its support of the country’s integrity, Washington leads the country to division in order to create a fortified springboard at the Russian border. The United States will do its best to pour fuel on the burning conflict in the south-east. Regional destabilization exacerbated by civil conflict is what will make the Kiev regime dependent on Washington.
Two presidential runners-up were beaten in Ukraine on April 9 as they travelled across the nation to meet people as the race went on. In Nikolayev ultra-nationalist Pravy Sector group militants attacked MP Oleg Tsarev, an independent candidate. He is a former member of the Party of Regions, which was headed by former President Victor Yanukovych before his ouster as a result of the coup. The reason is the support expressed by Tsarev for making Ukraine a federal state. He also advocates the idea of making Russian the second official language as it is spoken by half of the country’s population. … The very same day in Lugansk anti-government protesters attacked Michael Dobkin, another presidential hopeful from the Party of Regions. He was accused of betraying South-Eastern Ukraine and collaborating with the Kiev-based regime…
