Last week, the rf acknowledged the completion of the first phase of the "special military operation in Ukraine" (the battle for Kyiv), and officially announced the actual start of the next phase (the battle for Donbas and the South of Ukraine). They began to prepare the ground for a broad mobilization campaign as part of a further escalation of the armed confrontation. The key message of Kremlin’s official communications from last week was to promote the line that the rf is waging war with NA...

Civil Network OPORA has launched a weekly online discussion OPORA LIVE. Every Wednesday, at 6 pm, OPORA experts and the guest speakers will talk about the pertinent social and political issues related to the enforcement of the principles of the rules of law and human rights in the context of a new phase of the full-scale russian invasion in Ukraine. This Wednesday, on April, 27, Olga Aivazovska, OPORA Chair of the Board, and Oleksandr Kliuzhev, a senior analyst at OPORA, will talk about inte...

Expectedly, the beginning of a new phase of the Russian-Ukrainian war could not but cause significant changes in Ukrainian legal framework. MPs have not overlooked the Criminal Code – over two months of the war, they adopted 10 laws on amendments to the Code.

Lawyers say that should the Verkhovna Rada ratify the Rome Statute, it shall extend the jurisdiction of the ICC to investigate crimes committed on the territory of Ukraine. To date, 42 ICC member countries, including Ukraine, appealed to ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan and his office launched proceedings relating to Russia’s war in Ukraine. However, not all legal procedures are accessible for Ukraine to bring the case to fruition because Ukraine has not ratified the Rome Statute.

Even before the full-scale russian invasion, Civil Network OPORA was working on exposing anti-Ukrainian Facebook pages, investigating the activities of pro-Russian politicians in social media, and identifying the objectives of the network of pages that promoted russian propaganda in Ukraine. In this piece, analysts share their experience of searching for such media, as illustrated by russian media sites and pages, which OPORA started collecting in February, 2022. Over the month since then, so...

Civil Network OPORA developed an online tool "War Speeches" to track the official position and public discourse of the occupying state on the course of the war against Ukraine and forecast its future aggressive plans.

This publication analyzes two strategies that the rf parliament uses to ensure institutional stability within the country during the unsuccessful deployment of the military campaign in Ukraine.

On 3 March 2022 the Moscow Mechanism of the human dimension of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was invoked by Ukraine supported by 45 participating States. Consequently, a Mission of three experts was appointed on 14 March 2022, which according to the rules of the Moscow Mechanism was to complete its work within three weeks and therefore delivered its report to Ukraine as the inviting state on 5 April 2022.