The most recent muddle in Poland, our role in it and widely-understood various consequences of our commitment – are clearly against us. Does it all mean that we are about to close? That we have stopped doing projects relating to Ukraine? Not at all!
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- Interpol
- Extraditions
- Reforms in Ukraine
- Persecution of lawyers
- COVID-19
- "Meal For a Doctor" campaign
- Vlad Plahotniuc
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- Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Zhanaozen
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- Igor Vinyavskiy
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- Oppression of the opposition
- Vladimir Kozlov
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- Alexandr Pavlov
- Mukhtar Ablyazov
- Muratbek Ketebayev
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- Tatyana Paraskevich
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- EuroMaidan
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- Lustration
- Ukraine
- Ukrainian World
- Oleg Sentsov
- Nadiya Savchenko
- Zinaida Mukhortova
- Russia
- ATO
- Rafis Kashapov
- Chernobyl
- Nadia Savchenko
- Bota Jardemalie
- Rule of law in Poland
- Magnitsky Act
- Torture
- Polish judiciary
- EU
Topic: Nadiya Savchenko
Open Dialogue Foundation’s 2017 season’s greetings and 2016 top achievements
As the Open Dialog Foundation, we would like to thank you for your support during the past year and wish you all the best in your professional and personal life in 2017! On this occasion we would like also to share with you some of the ODF’s top achievements of the year 2016.
EFNI 2016: Violation of human rights in contemporary military conflicts
On 28-30.09.2016, the Open Dialog Foundation joined again the European Forum for New Ideas, held since 2011 in Sopot. The discussion on the violation of human rights in contemporary military conflicts was co-organised by the ODF together with the Initiative of Global Compact Network Poland.
EFNI 2016: Violation of human rights in contemporary military conflicts
On 28-30.09.2016, the Open Dialog Foundation joined again the European Forum for New Ideas, held since 2011 in Sopot. The discussion on the violation of human rights in contemporary military conflicts was co-organised by the ODF together with the Initiative of Global Compact Network Poland.
The Open Dialog Foundation’s top achievements
Representatives of the Foundation follow and attend the most important sessions and meetings of the international organizations and institutions in Brussels, Strasbourg, Vienna and Geneva.
Report: ‘37 hostages of the Kremlin’ (update)
More than three dozen Ukrainians continue to remain in detention for political reasons in Russia.
Polish media about the release of Savchenko. Kozlovska: “It made her stronger”
The return of the Ukrainian pilot, imprisoned by Russia, to her homeland, reverberated broadly in the Polish media. Representatives of the Open Dialog Foundation, in the interviews for TVN 24 bis, Poland Times and other media, commented on the circumstances in which Nadia Savchenko was released.
Nadia Savchenko is free! The ODF report from the Borispol Airport
After more than two years, the Ukrainian pilot, sentenced in Russia to 22 years in prison, returned to her homeland. Last Wednesday, she was exchanged for two soldiers of GRU (the Russian military intelligence body), convicted in Ukraine.
Involvement of the Russian officials included in the ‘Magnitsky list’ in other politically motivated criminal proceedings in Russia
On 27 April, 2016, a discussion on the case of Sergei Magnitsky, Russian anti-corruption whistle-blower and lawyer who died in custody in Moscow, in 2009, after having exposed a tax fraud of $230 million, took place at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Anna Koj for BelsatTV: We can help Nadia Savchenko but it requires concrete political action
On 14 April, Belsat TV, the only independent Belarusian TV channel, broadcasted an interview with the Head of the Open Dialog Foundation’s EU Office, Anna Koj. She discussed the case of Nadia Savchenko, recently sentenced by the Russian court to 22 years of prison.
New names on “Savchenko List”
Due to the recent extremely worrying developments and following consultations with Nadiya Savchenko’s lawyers, as well as with the representatives of the Russian opposition and civil society we have decided to broaden the “Savchenko List” with new names and to make it public.
Russian opposition calls for “Savchenko List”
At the end of the Free Russia Forum the participating representatives of the Russian opposition and civil society adopted a resolution supporting the call for the introduction of personal sanctions against individuals responsible for the persecution of the Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko.
Sanctions as per the ‘Savchenko list’ shall become a preventive tool against Kremlin repressions
57 deputies of the European Parliament filed a letter with the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Mogherini, containing an appeal to initiate the imposition of personal sanctions against those involved in the kidnapping and illegal prosecution of N. Savchenko.
Open Dialog: Savchenko on dry hunger strike – personal sanctions must follow now
Nadiya Savchenko was supposed to deliver her final word statement on March 3 during a hearing that was to set the date for the final verdict in her case to be announced. In an unexpected turn of events, she was not allowed to speak as the hearing was adjourned to March 9.
Nadiya Savchenko has begun dry hunger strike
On 4 March, 2016, Nadiya Savchenko officially went on a ‘dry hunger strike’, refusing even water. Such a radical move is a reaction to yesterday’s unlawful action of the court which did not permit the Ukrainian woman to deliver her final speech at the trial.