The Parliament registered a draft law No.9081 restricting the right to be elected to councils of all levels, for deputies from the banned pro-Russian parties. The bill, and two other alternative bills, No.9081-1 and No. 9081-2, concern people associated with the Party of Regions, the Opposition Bloc, the Opposition Platform — For Life, the Shariy Party, and other banned political entities.

In our opinion, the requirements of the proportionality test (“three-part test”) and judicial control are mutually causal. For example, with a casual approach, the imposition of restrictions for the exercise of human rights requires an assessment of its legality by a court, with the possible application of the sanction.

The full-scale invasion of Russia provoked a food crisis in the world. Because of defeats at the front and the failure to seize Ukraine, the aggressor resorted to grain blackmail in order to weaken Western sanctions. The tool of this strategy was the Black Sea Initiative on the export of Ukrainian grain, which extension Russia uses every time to lobby their interests.

Last week (March 13-19), the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. He is accused of a war crime of the deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia. At the same time, Slovakia handed over 13 MiG-29 aircraft to Ukraine, and Poland gave 4 more fighters. Following the Ramstein-10 meeting, Sweden became the 9th country in the “tank coalition”. The United States urged allies to fulfill their obligations to supply weapons t...

In a previous article, OPORA wrote that the State Duma of the Russian Federation is literally obsessed with Ukraine. Since January, 1, 2014, our country has been mentioned more than 7,000  times in the transcripts of the meetings of this authority. Instead, in this blog, we explored specific narratives that have been on within the walls of the State Duma since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion. In addition, we were interested in whether Russian deputies produced their own propagan...

Broadening Political Perspective

It is no secret that Putin is obsessed with the idea to restore the Soviet Union or create a new version of the Russian empire. Such narratives have been promoted in Russian society for years. The key goal of this propaganda was to regain Ukraine under the control of Russia. Thus, armed with the motto of Leon Trotsky “Without Ukraine, there is no Russia!”, the state machine of the kremlin built a completely oxymoronic image of our state. They use the labels of the “brotherly people”, “the you...

Last week (February 27 – March 5), unidentified drones attacked an oil refinery and a military airfield in russia. Also, the fighters of the “Russian Volunteer Corps” entered the country. They intend to overthrow the dictatorial regime. All this caused panic among the russian authorities who turned out to be powerless in the face of such threats. russia tries to destabilize the situation in Moldova, but with no success. They still want to start negotiations with Ukraine on their own terms. As...