Military Spending in Ukraine Skyrockets
Ukrainian Pacifist Movement criticizes the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine for annual spending of 7 times more public money than five years ago.
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Ukrainian Pacifist Movement criticizes the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine for annual spending of 7 times more public money than five years ago.
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In the poll launched by telegram channel Зе! News 1200 users voted against the conscription, and only 170 users supported it.
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Yurii Sheliazhenko, the editor of Pravdoshukach Newspaper, was attacked by extremists at the door of his apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine 26 September 2019. Attackers broke his photo camera. The attack coincided with problems in availability of the website of newspaper resembling DDoS attack.
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We are the people who believe in themselves, understand the sovereignty of reason, and practice personal autonomy in all spheres of life. We become citizens of everywhere now.
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Autumn military draft in 2019 will target 15 200 young people. UNHRMM reported 11 arbitrary detentions of conscripts this year. We asked MPs Arakhamia, Bezuhla, and Zabrodskyi to comment on the report and demands of pacifists to abolish conscription.
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Dmytro Lubinets MP said that monopoly of the bar caused too high prices for the services of lawyers in Ukraine, unbearable to the majority of people.
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Ayan Mittra and Julián Aguilar, editor and journalist of nonprofit media organization The Texas Tribune, held a public lecture in America House Kyiv.
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Peace activists picketed Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and President’s Office demanding to stop hunting for conscripts and inhuman treatment in military commissariats.
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Cruel hunting for draftees at the streets is a common practice of brutal enforcement of conscription in Ukraine. Conscientious objection is practically forbidden.
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There are 1,4 million IDP citizens of Ukraine, only near 47 thousand of them or 3% are partly allowed to participate in the parliamentary elections on 21 July 2019 because of bureaucratic complications.
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